Bill Thompson

I'll be honest, I tend Hegelian, but I need to explore Spinoza more.

Trust me, I get that, didn't take you for a Gramsci fan.

"But the direction of cultural evolution-including whether a social system is warlike or peaceful-depends on whether we have a partnership or a dominator social structure." (Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade, 1987)

It boggles my mind that people can be so opposed to the proletariat and their own self-interest that they would be against the hammer and sickle. But, then there are folks out there thinking being an NBA podcaster in their Vietnamese grandma's basement is an accomplishment.

Not really, the lesser evil is still evil. Just because I e evil is more civil than the other doesn't change the fact they're both evil.

Le camp site.

Waterfall ahead.

Cool little waterfall.

Better view of the waterfall.

Went camping and took a short hike to check out a waterfall and refrigerator spring house.

Finished The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Next up,

I haven't explored much Gramsci yet, but I haven't been opposed to what I have.

"The only Marx worth celebrating then is the Marx who is interested in thinking and in struggling on an open terrain, the Marx who offers a marxism without guarantees, a marxism without answers." (Stuart Hall, For a Marxism Without Guarantees, 1983)

Cover up The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler.

Finished The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 1. Next up,

unprepares us for the character, for the real character, of the struggle we have to conduct." (Stuart Hall, For a Marxism Without Guarantees, 1983)

"The notion that this complex thing, which Gramsci says has fortifications and trenches deep into civil society and everyday life, is going to appear and we're going to pop it on the head and that's going to be it, is a very profound misunderstanding. It is not only a misunderstanding, it...

Cover for It's Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders.

Finished Where Nobody Knows Your Name. Next up,

He's charming, which is why people don't care that at his core he's no different than any other liberal who could be in that office. AOC version 2.0, but he didn't even bother to wait until he was in office to start showing people his fealty to capitalism and deference to the bourgeoise line.

Fuck off, zionist.

calculate, you aren't, as Hegel would say, thinking dialectically'." (Stuart Hall, For a Marxism Without Guarantees, 1983)

"'You think you just won something, but just wait for the unintended consequences of the good things in the world' (because) 'unless you understand that advance and retreat are deeply implicated with one another, and that one has to have eyes in the side of one's head for the bit one didn't...

They did argue with it, and in the end they simply shifted from one brutalizing master to another. A lateral move that leaves you still covered in shit isn't a net positive or something to be admired.

Guarantees, 1983)

"But to have the sense that that world can only be understood by going to Marx as if his writings were indeed a sacred text, or a motto on the wall and all you need to do is embroider it a little and it will continue to come true, that marxism should be dead." (Stuart Hall, For a Marxism Without...

First page of Stuart Hall's For a Marxism Without Guarantees.

Finished Wage Labour and Capital. Next up,

You never had freedom, not while physical and wage slaves exist.

Behold, the Gibberson.

Lake Michigan in the distance.

A wooded path.

Took Gibson on a beautiful 1 mile hike today.

Dude, it was 90 degrees here the other day. I already decorated for Halloween, just ugh

Keep this in mind whenever you see anyone praising what Pritzker is doing. He's telling people to report to and trust the police as some sort of opposition force to ICE. He's doing what Dems do best, enabling the actions of the groups he's trying to convince you he opposes.

No different than what Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc were doing. With Trump it's out in the open and not as civil. That's what you really wanted, the lesser evil to stay in power so the atrocities could continue with you delightfully unaware as you secured your own comfort at the cost of others.

They owned slaves and didn't believe women deserved any rights.

The lake.

Also, the lake.

Paige and the lake.

Not the lake, but a good path.

Nice little 3.5 mile hike today, with some really great lake views.

You mean they'll keep doing the sort of stuff you helped engineer when you were in a position of power?

How about the ones who commit war crimes? Oh, wait, then there would never be a supreme Court no matter which party was in power...