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I think that if the various communist sects cannot bring themselves to have even very critical support for Zohran’s campaign, then they are essentially worthless. They make an abstract slogan of class independence, rather than concretely engaging with the meaning of his campaign.

I find this so frustrating because it’s possible to formulate good criticism of Zohran’s campaign, e.g. an immanent critique of his approach to the NYPD would show how it’s untenable on its own terms, and this would be useful; but the critical faculties of sectarians are stunted!

Family abolition, as I understand it, would mean that no parents gets to own their child, no husband gets to own his wife, and so on; instead of familial relations being compulsory, they would be rooted in mutual, freely chosen responsibility. This would be an unambiguous good.

Some of you are leftists for reasons not rooted in a love of humanity and desire for human thriving and I just don’t understand that

Sure, at best, elections ameliorate hell, but there's effects beyond affiliation, inspiration, welfare. A Muslim Socialist will head the Seat of Empire, and this has many showing their ass to an unprecedented extent. In every camp, unmediated class contempt and race conspiracy.

I’m usually weary of sharing Letterboxd reviews on here, but I’m posting this one because I genuinely believe that everyone who cares even a little bit about film and cultural history should watch “La Roue,” which moved me for a lot of reasons both in the film and beyond it. 🚂

As someone who has been critical of much of the activist-abolitionist discourse for its lack of political realism, Zohran’s pro cop messaging is nonetheless a step backwards, treating the NYPD as some class neutral institution that is just another possible partner in governance

Bernasconi is doing the damn thing over at PSU. Every student of his that I’ve ever met have been cool as hell and brillant.

W.E.B. Du Bois: “…generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy, and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse.” How could we not feel this curse, our historical debt, woven into the fabric of the nation today?

It is sort of true that British transphobia is the main political consequence of analytic philosophy. But it's more that both depend on the conservatism of British common sense, bound up with the idea that things must be immediately comprehensible in "basic language".

in my copy of Pale Fire For Alison— What is at stake in so crazy a book? Joy, I believe. Yours, I hope.

Wow

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I…But it also means: to be taught.” — Emmanuel Levinas