Beatrix

I've searched my heart and you're still wrong sorry! But I will accept Dedicated Side B > Emotion Side B

they'll have to pry the identity of identity and non-identity from my cold, dead hands

screenshot of a tweet which reads "the NYPD is now claiming that the protestors were in possession of the most dangerous book in the world", and the image shows a photoshopped still of news coverage featuring a cop holding up a copy of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" instead of whatever the original book was.

time to dust off this gem

mfw when "in its rational form dialectics is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors" again

a block quote of Jean Juares which reads: "The supporters of the general strike . . . are obliged, it should be well realized, to succeed at the first attempt. If a general strike, once turning to revolutionary violence, fails, it will leave the capitalist system in place, but now armed with an implacable fury. The fear of the managers and also of a great part of the masses would set off long years of reaction. And the proletariat would be for a long time unarmed, crushed, enchained (Jaurès 2008: 116)"

fucking Jean Jaurès, quoted in The Apprentice's Sorceror, making, to my mind, a convincing case for the necessity of protracted people's war lol

If someone is being annoying on Vvardenfell, you can make fun of them until they get so mad it's legal to kill them

Spell Tome: Snatch Lover

can't yet assess Landa's argument that fascism arose from "the inherent tension between the political dimension of the liberal order and its economic one" but my feeling is that if we reduce the latter tension merely to the labor-capital contradiction, fascism's race and gender ideology is mystified

screenshot of an excerpt from Ishay Landa's book "The Apprentice's Sorceror", which reads: "Equally, many contemporary admirers of Mussolini or Hitler hailed the corporatist organization as a superior solution to the social problem. This, they avowed, attests to fascism having superseded both capitalism and socialism. Both detractors and adher- ents conveniently registered the deviance from the doctrines of classi- cal economy and refrained from putting the question historically and concretely, namely on whose side and for whose benefit did the fascists intervene in the economy? John Weiss’ comment remains useful in contradicting such procedure: 'Although both regimes interfered with the economy and directed business policies to a great extent, this should not be taken as evidence for the ‘mixed’ or left-right character of Fascist and Nazi rule. On the contrary, as in Germany, controls were intended to make militarism a means for eventually resolving social and economic problems without recourse to liberal and radical domestic reforms. Hitler used tax relief policies, for example, to push production by heavy industry to a maximum . . . and companies were forced by controls to reinvest soaring profits in industrial expansion and government loans,' (Weiss 1967: 105). Thus, regarded historically, the market was intervened in from the right, to boost the socioeconomic and political interests of capitalism."

excerpt from Ishay Landa, "The Apprentice's Sorceror"

Knafeh says no reading only scritching

I can't quit you, Ideengeschichte 😢

Landa off to a good start, thrilling once again to read materialist history of ideas that isn't mechanically reductionist that's my shit

excerpt from Ishay Landa's book "The Apprentice's Sorceror: Liberal Tradition and Fascism", which reads as follows: "I will claim that fascism was not an outsider to the liberal, “open society,” but in fact an intimate insider to that society, which was not particularly open, either. Far from being the antithesis of fascism, its absolute Other, the liberal order significantly contributed to fascism, informing many of its far reaching manifestations. I will attempt to make the case that most of the pernicious and extremist aspects of fascism, aspects usually seen as attacking liberalism—repudiation of democracy; dictatorship; assault on rationalism andscientific objectivity; propaganda; chauvinistic nationalism; imperialist and racial war—are historically unthinkable outside of the liberal framework. Fascism was an organic product of developments largely (that is to say: not entirely) from within liberal society and ideology. It was an extreme attempt at solving the crisis of liberalism, breaking out of its aporia, and saving the bourgeoisie from itself."

from the introduction to Ishay Landa's The Apprentice's Sorceror

I guess this is just my reading log now.

Sometimes I am tempted to post a selfie and then I remember the total stranger who came up to me at a Marxist conference in my tumblr years and asked me "are you [username]"? and made me delete every social media account I had.

finished Pao-Yu Ching's "From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal", another banger from FLP - next up I'm finally getting around to Ishay Landa's "The Apprentice's Sorceror: Liberal Tradition and Fascism", which has been on my radar for like a decade

a pdf screenshot of an excerpt from T. Derbent's essay, "Categories of Revolutionary Military Politics", which reads as follows: "Dear Comrades, Louis XIV famously had his cannons engraved with the words “ultima ratio regum”: the kings’ last argument. Any project for social revolution must anticipate the question of armed confrontation with the forces in power and those of reaction. Postponing such an analysis on the grounds that the question of armed confrontation “is not yet relevant” exposes us to making choices (political, strategic, organizational) which, when the question of armed confrontation “becomes relevant,” risk putting revolutionary forces in a position of powerlessness and vulnerability, giving them a totally inadequate character, and ultimately exposing them to defeat. Organizations with revolutionary ambitions that refuse to develop a military policy as soon as the question of confrontation arises practically, disqualify themselves as revolutionary forces; they behave in advance as gravediggers of the revolution, as fodder for stadiums and cemeteries."

from T. Derbent, "Categories of Revolutionary Military Politics"

Clausewitz and the People's War - T. Derbent - Foreign Languages Press Carl von Clausewitz is one of the greatest military thinkers of all time. His analysis extends beyond the realm of specific historical experiences and develops military theory to a high level of gener...

In the current trial by fire over tactics and strategy we're in, I can't recommend this book enough:

Rev Magdalen But what were people expecting blockades to even do? You're stopping and checking every vehicle and then you find one that's ICE and what? You just tell them no they can't pass and they turn around and go away? It's like "controlling space with fire" don't see how it would work.

Shit like this is what I'm talking about. Just the latest example of someone who doesn't know anything about the blockades, understand their purpose, or see their success. I've seen ICE turn around and not enter a neighborhood. I saw it with my own two eyes, on the ground in Minneapolis.

Love this cover.

Emily K. Hobson - Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Absolutely changed my life.

Why yes i main medic, why do you ask?

I had wondered since I started why I meet so many puppygirls playing TF2 - today I learned competitive players call the medic's healing beam "the leash"

Relax. You'll be fine.

Huey P. Newton, In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, July 3, 1967 The Huey P. Newton Archive—co-founder, lead theoretician and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party—on the Marxist Internet Archive.

www.marxists.org/archive/newt...

six books laid on the floor: 'Dynamite' by Louis Adamic, 'Manliness and Militarism' by Mark Moss, 'Let the Record Show' by Sarah Schulman, 'Palestine' by Nur Mashala, 'The World Turned Upside Down' by Christopher Hill, and 'India's Simmering Revolution' by Sumanta Banerjee. In the bottom left corner is my cat's orange paw as he walked by.

got onto reorganizing these fuckers so here's some more history books I'm always recommending (plus bonus paw from Knafeh)

yeah sure!

That book in particular connected so many dots for me! esp. between patriarchy and uneven development

I'm clicker training them with calipers and tongs

books that's be here if I had physical copies (or I do but they're being borrowed right now):
Silvia Federici - 'Caliban and the Witch'
J. Moufawad-Paul, 'Continuity and Rupture'
Peter Bürger - 'Theory of the Avantgarde'
Maria Mies - 'Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale'

five books layed on a floor: 'Imperialism and Social Reform' by Bernard Semmel, 'Class Struggles in the USSR' by Charles Bettelheim, 'Times Square Red, Times Square Blue' by Samuel Delany, 'Fanshen' by William Hinton, and 'Killing Hope' by William Blum

and history (roughly, idk how you'd classify TSR/TSB):