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Super excited about this one ✊🏼

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“Man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does” -Nietzsche
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6d
“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.
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by Jonathan Wolff — Reposted by: Enzo Rossi, Jonathan Wolff

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“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.
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It’s amazing. They try to appease them every which way. They gave them Brexit and look at Farage now. They never learn a thing
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Yes, but that's only 50% of the picture:
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 7d
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
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*Macron, ugh
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enzoreds.bsky.social
There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.
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by Enzo Rossi

enzoreds.bsky.social
Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Barthes... need I go on? See here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...
The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon
It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...
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Here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...
The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon
It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...
thephilosophicalsalon.com
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enzoreds.bsky.social
That said I very much agree with the last point he makes in that quote. It's just that he sometimes underestimates how hard it is to do that
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I do think Cohen was too flippant about ideology. One sees this in KTMH already, and I think that was the seed of his moralistic downfall later
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My review of Shmuel Nili's intriguing new book (though some of the cases he discusses are, er, dated): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Nili, Shmuel. Philosophizing the Indefensible: Strategic Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. $105.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1
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Reposted by: Enzo Rossi, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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enzoreds.bsky.social
There is a lib vibe in elite Anglo universities and their epigones. That’s the plausible version of that sort of claim, or rather the plausible premise from which it trivially follows.
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Sure analytic philosophy is small
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?
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What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.
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You’re going to want to read this substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thursday
A novella in six parts. This Friday: part one.
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: Enzo Rossi, Timothy Snyder, Richard E. Lenski , and 30 more

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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Didn't see this coming but I guess they have a point
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Put another way, yes, if they weren't racist they wouldn't go to that demo. But their being racist may not explain so many turning up to the demo.
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"Racism" or "racist political behaviour"? Some people are racist. What does it take for those people to go to a racist demo, vote for a racist candidate, etc? That is a different question from "why are those people racist?". That's all I was trying to say.
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Agree with Jo basically
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But again, are you talking about an attitude or about the translation of an attitude into political behaviour? In the latter case, it's not obvious at all that economics doesn't play a key role.
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What does "racism is primarily driven" mean? Historically, we have a sense of where it comes from as an attitude. But if the question is when racism translates to political behaviour--voting, demonstrating--then leaving economics out seems dogmatic and moralistic. We don't do that for other issues.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 24d
The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse
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[email protected] on Platonov, the commune form, and work satisfaction on an interstellar ship: illstarredletter.substack.com/p/read-letter
Read letter
Plummeted into autumn, which is my favourite season but also has a tendency to crush one with duties. I don't believe in duty. I am trying to become uncrushed.
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The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse
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Alexandra Road Estate though. Not as good to begin with but not a failure either. And also gorgeous
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I adore it. But it’s kinda sad that it worked when similar projects failed just because of where it is and because basically it was always mostly for rich people. I mean, it’s a lesson, but one that is prone to ponens/tollens.
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The Barbican is a relatively recent building complex but it just feels totally beyond the capacity of our society to make anything this cool now, like the remnant of some fallen civilisation whose ruins we live amidst.
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Some academic disciplines are three appeals to authority in a trenchcoat
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