Sometimes I get to write my own stuff.
In this one I try to articulate a nonreductive conception of materialism in response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, which appeared last October in @salvagedotzone .
In latest critique of China Miéville's "metaphysical materialism," Spectre editor Joshua Nicholas Pineda
@LikableEveryman warns against a return to forms of mystification that modern scientific theory-and Marxism in particular-has long sought to overcome.
https://t.co/RpE1PpyHQT
People are missing the point. If leftists want to win, they should stop being academic, jargony, and postmoderny, and instead follow the examples of people like Chomsky, Zinn, Sanders, Mamdani, Claire Valdez, El-Sayed, etc. Two generations of “theory” have left the Left very, very weak.
breaking my soft rule of not typing words for this website to belatedly add my voice to the chorus denouncing the red-brown neo-eugenicism of the Grim/Ganz dirtbag left for their anti-intellectual bullying of @DaShaunLH & @realLandsEnd over unimpeachable critiques of body fascism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a comrade who has demonstrated her commitment to the struggle in many important ways and she should be defended. Dogpiling her along with the fascists is a choice and it reflects whose side you’re on. We are all paying attention.
Hi my name is Leftist Poster. I am quote tweeting a clipfarmed contextless comment from the foremost communist thinker on disability in the United States to shit-talk her so that I can help the right-wing troll running a hate account make his blue check money. This is praxis
I think it is worth interrogating why they find this video so objectionable as opposed to Platner’s Nazi tattoo, his time as a mercenary and his perpetration of sexual assault. It reveals a profound lack of faith in workers and their capacity for class consciousness.