Everyone (paraphrased well by Alex Ross): Horkheimer and Adorno avoided the term “Marxism” and gave up on enlightenment reason.
Horkheimer and Adorno: “the rescue of enlightenment is our concern,” and by “enlightenment,” we principally mean “the radical impulses of Marxism.”
god everybody is so anti-solidarity now. they want their pain to be unique and without comparison as if that makes their suffering special and virtuous. we are all so much more alike than we are different. it’s no wonder there’s a loneliness crisis, what an isolating way to live.
a Black woman couldn’t even celebrate the knicks win in the comfort of her own home without her neighbor calling the cops on her, and they killed her dog.