"What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational"

'The Enlightenment', au fond, was bourgeois society becoming self-conscious of itself. Understanding itself & its newness in history not in 'returning' to a pure Apostolic Christianity (Protestantism) or restoring the Roman republic, but in secular, historical, modern terms.

I've written an obituary for the late Jurgen Habermas for UnHerd unherd.com/newsroom/jurge…

> Once the young Hegel—in a quite Young Hegelian fashion—would have accused this reconstitution of theory of the same resignation (in the fundamental post hoc character of absolute knowledge) of which he had accused the Christian expectation of salvation, internalized back into

These two books contain the sum of all human perversion.

It's worth keeping in mind that Marx was a critic of socialism. So the truth isn't that "real socialism hasn't been tried," but more that proletariat socialism was defeated. This is very difficult for "leftists" to take up because it doesn't offer them, as intellectuals, a

CutroneZone on the ongoing Iran war! Douglas Lain Sublation Media youtu.be/rxLoqf0zBIk?si…

Rather than pretend to be players, leftists might accept that they are Watchers? Disinterested observation?

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One of the most interesting - yet rarely noted - coinages in Hegel’s Logic is the term “Materiatur,” which is rendered somewhat disastrously in the Giovanni as “materiality.” What Hegel actually has in mind is a new logical conception of matter as internally structured. 1/

New From Sublation Magazine: Reflections on the Campaign for a Socialist Party in Germany. sublationmag.com/post/campaign-…

"Society is a concept of the Third Estate" - Theodore Adorno.

uh ohhhhhh !!! the Marxists are coming 🤣🤣🤣 scary 😱

In 1865 Marx wrote his ”Confession“, a semi-jocular questionnaire very popular at the time: Occupation: Bookworming Vice you hate: Servility Idea of happiness: To fight Your hero: Spartacus Favorite colour: Red Your maxim: Nothing human is alien to me Your motto: Doubt

My response to the question of a Marxist view on freedom and the Good! Benjamin Studebaker Platypus Affiliated Society platypus1917.org/2026/04/01/cat…

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

The Defeat of Orban x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

José Mariategui on anti-imperialism: "The taking of power by anti-imperialism, if it were possible, would not represent the taking of power by the proletarian masses, by socialism." marxists.org/archive/mariat…

Fisher was right, but you can guarantee most who see this will know nothing about the (non-vulgar) accelerationist position he was interested in.