Danny Jacobs, one of my best friends on Earth and a generational intellect, passed yesterday. Everything in the world is grimmer than it was two days ago.
If you’re in NYC, I’ll be broadcasting on 89.9FM and https://t.co/6i7ieemt77 tonight at 9pm for him.
@DougLain People are saying this was actually Iranian anti-air as the US has a history of misreporting air casualties as friendly-fire because it is less embarrassing
https://t.co/8bkxDr3Too
@adam_tooze@cuizhiyuan They won’t really criticize the war until it goes badly on the ground! And I’m sure they hope it goes badly (drawn out + lots of deaths) so they can use it as political capital.
The bourgeois revolution was a social revolution over centuries. Its political revolutions (e.g French) happened late in that process. The Marxist hypothesis is with socialist revolution, the political revolution happens first (DotP) to *begin* the transition, consciously.