I sent her a tweet the other saying that I had been thinking for a couple of years that “ally” is a horrible, supplicating, hierarchical word vs. “comrade” which *enacts* egalitarian solidarity. I’m glad she has written a whole book to elaborate the idea.
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Replying to @gabrielwinant @athenogenes
Here’s the thing: I **hate** ally/allyship etc. it’s self-canceling, reflexive deference to always already original identity formation (and cant make sense of inevitable intro-identity divisions). I’d like comradeship more a century ago—I do think it carries the weight of a
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citoyen?
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Prefer something a bit more indigenous, despite the “myth of nationalism.” Citizen, of course, has its own nationalist issues too, as most people read it.
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there's also great rhetorical potential in the use of comrade, can be devastatingly condescending, like Trotsky's "every man has a right to be stupid, but comrade macdonald abuses the privilege"
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Well, that’s for damn sure. Amazingly, that might be only the second best line about Macdonald. Saul Bellow, describing him hitting up a woman at a nudist party, might be best.
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That Wreszin biography is an anthology of people dunking on Macdonald.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling and
And the funny thing about that is Wreszin loves “Dwight” as he calls him. But the record is there.
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