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this strange desire to decide when criticism should be levelled by whom is a certificate of correctness given by those who have no sense of political realities. by now it should be clear, whatever else he may be, rahul is a walking disaster as an organisational leader.
congress’s complete inability to rebut the fascist populism of himanta sarma (who himself was part of congress till 2014) coupled with veteran congress leaders defecting to BJP is pivotal to understand what happened in assam. but sure, RG will deliver us from this hell 💅🏾
genuinely have no idea why people are piling on him for an argument that should be uncontroversial at this point? are we going to ignore the defectors from congress to bjp & pretend that doesn’t reveal a fundamental problem?
“in gaza, the relationship between the resistance & the people is that of flesh to the bone. resistance in gaza did not turn into a profession or an institution.[…] time in Gaza is not relaxation, but storming the burning noon.” ~ mahmoud darwish
this is what happens when the MFA creative writing industrial complex celebrates writing as a practice distinct from *living* itself, ordained by the apostle-like figure of a writer
ngl i feel so vindicated, i have always felt tockarzuk’s prose to be mediocre at best, celebrated the most by the vacuous literary elite. so it doesn’t surprise me that a writer, whose writing is so devoid of the dust of life has admitted to using AI.
& to shed light on such examples is some kind of anti-intellectualism? yall are telling on yourselves if you think the authors mentioned here are due to reasons other than the larger crises where so-called “radical academics” are actively incentivised to act like cops
this brilliant & erudite critique of Riley nonetheless, I am a little perplexed at the amount of defensiveness coming from people who inadvertently think the sole purpose of radical scholarship must be to defang it from a larger political project
Richard Hunsinger's strong rebuttal to Dylan Reily's piece in New Left Review, in which Hunsinger asserts that the only way we can discover capital's laws of motion is *through* the bloody struggle between slaves and masters, workers and capitalists (link below)