@Lim38878197@nagamyzuna OK. But what are we to make of his politics - which still have present day ramifications, and are the real content of this discussion? This is a much deeper and consequential question. But it is being undermined - even shunned - by proponents "of the personal is political."
@Lim38878197@nagamyzuna Freeing his slaves would not have ended slavery. Ending slavery, which he tried to do, would have.
I guess you *can* criticize him for it, but towards what end? It just reads as a way to cancel him or something. Apolitical.
@nagamyzuna People project "the personal is political" back onto Jefferson, and do so to write him and America itself off as slaveries #1 benefactors. Lies!
@tonyteso@SublationMedia I don't think Marxism is abstractable as analysis nor program. Althusser's obituary was re: Maoism as well as Eurocommunism. Not only Korsch but Lukacs continued into what Adorno called identity-thinking effacing contradiction. Marxism became dogma, critically self-contradictory.