Existentialism and critical philosophy of race • PhD student @penn_state • Unionized @cge_psu • Member @centrecodsa • “Nothing human is alien to me.”
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Determination is the weight pressing down on the brains of the living from the tradition of former generations in the form of congealed abstract labor — the intangible trait shared by by all commodities. The living nonetheless act!
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To be clear, it was the biggest night for Christian liberalism, not leftism. What we actually need is the militant, class-conscious Christianity of Jacques Roux and Ernesto Cardenal.
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Here's my review of Jacqueline Rose's new novel, Two Women, which fictionalises and intertwines the lives of Gillian Rose and Edith Stein @PolTheoNetwork
politicaltheology.com/sharin…
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"Marx was able to develop a more adequate theory of the capitalist mode of production because he took as his starting point the experience of the working class. This is why Marx’s work was able to speak to the experience of the working class." Another Simon Clarke banger.
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Communists who have no illusions, who do not give way to despondency, and who preserve their strength and flexibility ‘to begin from the beginning’ over and over again in approaching an extremely dificult task, are not doomed (and in all probability will not perish).
— V.I Lenin
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“To explain how the strangest metaphysical claims of a philosopher really come about, it is always good (and wise) to begin by asking: what morality is it (is he) getting at? … There is absolutely nothing impersonal about the philosopher.”
-Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1.6
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I am reading Lenin’s account of the fall of the Second International, where we find the most succinct and elegant definition of Marxism:
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Despairing over the abstract numbers and student performances at [insert institution that are you’re immediately removed from] is only useful if it prompts an existential question: “What can I do concretely as an instructor at my institution to mediate the problem of higher ed?”
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Weird, another gay dream. 4th day in a row. It must be emblematic of my confused feelings of the class and power structure in America
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When Fanon calls for a ‘new humanity,’ or Sartre for an ‘incomplete humanity,’ I take them to be doing the opposite of positing a trans-historical individual, though they certainly refuse to abandon individuality as such; they could not retain an emancipatory politics otherwise.
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The declaration of Sartre et. al. published in support of the student uprising in 1968. All power to the revolutionary students and the revolutionary masses: then and today!
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concordo com o mark fisher dizendo que mais do que politizar a raiva, precisamos politizar a depressao
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What I find consequential about the Haitian Revolution is that it was the enslaved Africans who took seriously the slogans of the bourgeois revolutions and were the first to attempt to push them beyond the limits of bourgeois society.
