@feraljokes I’m not really inclined to wade into this discourse, but it doesn’t seem too prudish to think that young virgins consuming the kinds of things that are all over the internet today isn’t ideal.
@feraljokes Right…but there does seem to be a massive difference here. You’re talking about sporadically being able to see still images of naked people vs. constant access to rather extreme (and atypical) representations of human sexuality.
@TuttReal No, Sartre is very much referring to the Left at the time he wrote the preface (1959–60), fresh off of De Gaulle’s constitutional referendum victory that established the Fifth Republic.
@NewLeftEViews Perhaps too quickly overshadowed historically by nuclear weapons, napalm, etc. It wasn’t until I read narrative accounts of the bombardment of Madrid during that civil war that I fully considered its monstrosity. So yes, à distance bien sûr, effectively normalized.
@n_hold@gabrielwinant@yeselson@underverse To be clear, insofar as I was complaining, it was not about people being rude, but rather lobbing accusations which, if true, deserve serious opprobrium (apologia for colonialism, left white nationalism, and so on).
@gabrielwinant@underverse But, e.g., they recently published an overwhelmingly positive review of Sven Beckert’s new book… which we can all be sure the editors don’t agree with
@gabrielwinant@underverse Jacobin gets talked about in a way that doesnt really reflect its output, like it’s a sectarian newspaper. I’m not saying there isn’t a dominant perspective there, there definitely is.
@gabrielwinant Happy to concede the point. If I’m whining about anything, it would be about the substantive excesses in the replies, which aren’t really at issue here.
@gabrielwinant It’s prickly, sure… but outside of genuine, carefully argued scholarship (which no one argues this interview is) the sort of tone you’re objecting to seems utterly commonplace in Marxist writing!