Aspa

🔞

yearning to be funny someday.

communist.

not really active on social media.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

i can only refer to that one article by @anArrogantCruxo

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Karl Kautsky predicted that capitalist powers could cooperate in a stable “ultra-imperialist” order.

Two world wars made the theory look absurd — but the US-led postwar system complicates the verdict. https://t.co/SW2H55Xvcr

[Nondescript Communist @NondescriptRed]

Sonion

[davide🚩🔻 @criticofpolecon]

Very sad to hear. In 2020-2021 when I first started to seriously engage with political economy, his work was some of the first stuff I came across. Even though I was way over my head mathematically, I took a lot away from it. He also had serious aura.

[Surplus Produce @SurplusProduce]

Nachgelesen: The Power of Profit

Anwar Shaikh

https://t.co/0q6AT4LBPK

[Historical Materialism Journal @histmat]

R.I.P. Anwar Shaikh

https://t.co/iw70f2sFmq

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

i barely start reading the book and anwar shaikh instantly croaks

RIP brother

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

The content of democracy as such is determined by the social form in which its subjects exist: that of a competitive, bourgeois, class-society. On this basis it is entirely irreconcilable with our goals, until the content of its social forms is restructured

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

i have yet to hear any convincing account on what basis democracy is worth adopting beyond an insistence on it being a transhistorical principle one should abide by.

But what is the content of this democracy you insist upon?

[rskhm (蝋燭姫) @rskhm__]

Leftists hate democracy and would establish a "progressive" despotism in an instant if they could

[Tarbram @tropicalcamatte]

This kind of principled defence of contentless democracy is historically obsolete and has long reverted in a sense directly opposite to its conception. The right of the citizenry to decide, qua national citizens, on the future of the human species is a suicidal route.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@NondescriptRed in that regard it isn't special. the UK is just particularly far down the spiral relative to other first world states.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@NondescriptRed while when i call the UK a failed state half jokingly it's on the grounds of it being especially fucked regarding the simultaneous, contradictory pressures of fiscal restraint and having to take on increasing amounts of debt to keep itself afloat.

[🐍 @andyburzum]

South Koreans when they arrive in South Korea

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@novasarry8556 i do prefer bourgeois since "bürger" nowadays is used as a universal term for citizen instead of a class signifier (though this still has merit in the context of the GSP texts). germans will call a homeless man and a CEO a "bürger" all the same.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@iltarusko_ i need to get into bataille

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@iltarusko_ what the fuck kinda slop is "palingenetic immortalism"

[Avelum @novusolus]

Taking a 38 year detour through Insurrectionist Feminism, Libidinal Materialism, Lemurian Time Sorcery, Accelerationism, Crypto-Libertarianism, Neoreaction and Gnostic Calvinism to arrive at the same politics as Catturd.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@ValgsiyandCNO it's dialectical you see.
no, but seriously tying oneself to an ideology or tendency serves no other purpose than to terminate critical engagement with the world through offloading onto a group signifier.
you're creating a mental container to think for you. do not.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@ValgsiyandCNO it's dialectical you see.
no, but seriously tying oneself to an ideology or tendency serves no other purpose than to terminate critical engagement with the world through offloading onto a group signifier.
you're creating a mental container to think for you. do not.

[Aspa @Mcswift8]

@Xhoggelito politics streamers are still pretty widespread. when treating the obvious early 2020s spike from COVID + other crises as an anomaly, they're at their peak right now and maybe still on the up and up.