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opening the heinrich marx bio again

The idea that communists you find annoying online are inhibiting a successful proletarian revolution in the United States in any significant way is just completely absurd

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every once in a while I remember I have a bluesky and use it say the debate between Althusser, Poulantzas, and Balibar is much more interesting and relevant than the Miliband one everyone harps on

this is a recurrent theme if you look at the rise and fall of broad left parties like podemos or syriza or smaller municipal experiments; if we gamble without thought on taking responsibility for the extremely repressive and politicized state, then we undermine any long-term goal of socialism

which means we have to reckon with the principle of selection/specialization in state and party, and a state with a workers party elected in coalition or executive under rule-of-law constitutional vetoes isn't a "neutral" advance, but can be disadvantageous in the long run without rupture

I've seen fair critiques that Balibar is essentialist in "On the DoTP" (boils it down to two classes, which works polemically but betrays his work on MoPs), but frankly he's right that the "material condensation" is only decisive when a class holds the "general social force of compulsion" per marx

Poulantzas had things more conceptually in order but Althusser (and Balibar, mostly, depending on how you take his later works) has been vindicated 100 times over in insisting on demarcating between the capitalist state and any working class administration when thinking through the limits of office

“It is alive!” Very excited to see my article “Toward a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilites” out in the latest issue of @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social. It can be accesses here: doi.org/10.1080/0893...

structural casuality is coming back in a big way

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starting a thread of writing that drops from MUG, starting with @dreadfulposts.bsky.social going into depth about our view of electoral politics in the US

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don't like lukacs one bit

Ooooh the second international fell because they didn't follow your interpretation of dialectics, got it, thanks korsch and lukacs

I'm not like the biggest kautsky guy (he had some early hits) but reading history about him and the 2nd international reveals a lot of the foundations of "western marxism" were... kinda bullshit and self-important?

(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son

Really enjoyed sitting down with @hcampsm.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social to talk about Citizen Marx and how Marx's context might provide resources for socialists today

figured i'd jump on here and scroll around a while, look at some posts. no big deal

not even brave enough to imply not subbing to these papers. Just "don't share it!" like it's a cursed chain email

my socialist organizing is showing up to vanity zoom calls and doing the good posting

liberal political practice is boycotting specific nyt articles

probably a sign to stop writing

gotta bring back the old socialist take on militias

#Grindset

increasingly tired of "recognition" as a theoretical concept

Krupskaya, I have great news,

(double bridge wayfarers are close)

YES I WANT THE DEATH STRANDING SUNGLASSES OKAY

anyone know of any frames similar to this? love the little wire going across the frame