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    1. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      from that perspective the radical left as mass-movement-against-empire must look like some kind of atavism -- LARPing an era of revolutionary ascendancy that could feel real in the 1950s or earlier, *maybe* even the 60s, but not now.

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    2. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      (& btw if we have to try to call an official time of death for the 19C and 20C "spectre of communism" then I'm going to call it the year 1979, but that's a whole other can of worms. a lot happened in 1979.)

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    3. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      meanwhile the established power consensus has bitten off and assimilated enough of the radical left's specifics piecemeal that ppl who aren't autistically well versed in radical history (which is almost all of them) can hardly be blamed for not seeing much difference.

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    4. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      the works of a certain mildewed insect whose I'm wary of invoking outright on twitter for reasons, the notion of Cathedral esp., are a nearly paradigmatic case. somehow he got halfway to a sense of base/superstructure relations Adorno would recognize by tilting hard right.

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    5. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      countering that the analysis available in academia is objectively sharper, fuller and better than what's on offer in NRx blogs doesn't help with the situation at hand even if it is completely true (& tbh I do tilt toward thinking it's at least largely true)

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    6. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      the fact a self-styled reactionary computer nerd with a blog got some fellow nerds to step out of the ruling consensus and ask some awkward questions about its morality (notably "cui bono") where self-styled radicals failed is still there and still needs answering adequately

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    7. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      it should be possible to affirm equally that nrx palpably succeded in arming a few intellects and that often as not they turn the weapons on the victims of empire or sheer bystanders than (what lefties would presumptuously declare) "real enemies".

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    8. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      at the end of the day attempts at horseshoe-theory synthesis are still predicated on the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking that proves to be a bad idea everywhere else it's been tried, but I'm not proposing one, anyway.

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    9. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      but maybe I am proposing that everyone recognize, or at least seriously consider the possibility, that the facts of the situation we're in at the historical moment render the whole question idle from the start anyway.

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    10. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7

      an empire crumbling under its own weight renders all enemies equally superfluous. and a dying empire schizophrenic enough to end up at war with itself is likely going to defeat itself just as decisively as it would any other enemy, and it'll do so on its own terms.

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      Gianni‏ @AngloRemnant Feb 7
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      Easy enough to find horseshoe elements within the critique. More interesting, & imo the reason he who shall not be named attracted an audience, are the attempts to engineer plausible solutions from those elements.

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        2. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
          Replying to @AngloRemnant

          that's where "enemy of my enemy is my friend" always breaks down too. the thing for me is if the purely non-normative left analysis of the situation we're in is critically wrong then *goals* need a rethink too

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        3. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
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          in that knowing how to move some part of the world around you from where it is to where it ought to be depends on first knowing where it is in the first place

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        4. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
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          otherwise there's no hope of a robust causal connection between what you intend to accomplish and what actually happens when you try it (by whatever means)

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        5. Gianni‏ @AngloRemnant Feb 7
          Replying to @schakalsynthetc

          Yes. Confusing to me is how the (pre-woke) academic left gets so much right w/r/t mapping of the power relations & levers of control, and their emergence, & yet end up with social democracy +1 as the solution.

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        6. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
          Replying to @AngloRemnant

          it's not a complete answer but I do think a big part of it is history blew some big holes in the idea of the revolutionary proletariat and so far nothing's stepped up to replace it as agent of radical transformation

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        7. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
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          so you get social democracy as the bit of tinkering around the edges that's still possible and "no, but, like, cranked to 11" as magic spell against the reality that the turn is an accommodation to defeat

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        8. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Feb 7
          Replying to @schakalsynthetc @AngloRemnant

          otoh there used to be a left that had "tell no lies, claim no easy victories" as a slogan & basically I align with it to the point that if it means following that all the way thru to concluding there no longer is a viable left worth aligning with then so be it

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