was police abolition rhetorical overreach? did the left go too far? no because nobody had the balls to do the actual maximalist position which was "abolish the police and replace them with police 2 who will be socially and politically loyal only to us"
As McLuhan pointed out, good artists seem like they live in the future because most people have not caught up to the present. Artists live in the immediate present, which is why their work will register as the present to most people multiple decades later (who live in the past).
I'm still finding documents in this collection that blows my mind. Here's one memorandum that literally changed history.
"SED
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
To: Com. [Comrade] Markowski
Dictation Reference: Schö/Gn.
Date: September 9, 1966
We are returning to you, as an enclosure, the proposal
"Material Aid for the South Arabian Liberation Front".
After consultation with Comrade Honecker, the measures are to be carried out without passing formal major resolutions.
Office of the Politburo
– Schön –
(Signature)"
"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
I do think it's funny how the shameless jump to ai by petty bourgeois has delivered a sense of understanding what we mean by 'kulak activity' to the wider public
It’s not just this. Social media killed manned air forces. Everyone is terrified of a captured pilot. It used to just be assumed it would happen as late as nato bombing Libya and wasn’t a big deal now it is like some blow to prestige.
@JeanGreige youtube videos include anything from pregnant cat slop videos to scientists presenting their latest research
if you're asking your chatbot things that have it citing reddit, that's a you problem
one of the better things marx was a jerk about was incoherently moderate demands. the moderate version of a political demand, as he said time & again, is often the basically unrealistic one because it imagines an aestheticising or moralising tweak to an already coherent system
Four Lions remains the best cultural criticism of GWOT. Morris really understood Brit Muslims. In hindsight, it's esp striking how much the characters portended the kind of ppl who went off to Syria 4 yrs after the film's release.