@yeselson @chrislhayes @HeerJeet I take it more as Gramscian pessimism of the intellect/optimism of the will.
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@aoscott@yeselson@chrislhayes Gramsci formula is a good goal but psychologically hard: often leads to pessimism of intellect AND will.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes i don't think that's the case w/TNC, though lately the tragic notes in his worldview are more prominent.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@aoscott@yeselson@chrislhayes Should add that I'm not thinking so much about TNC personally as where the logic of his position would lead1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes I think he's very close to where JBaldwin was in the early 60s--a clear and unsentimental internal critic1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes of American liberalism.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes Yes. That's shrewd comparison, there is a plaintive intensity to his prose like Baldwin's. But the1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes difference: Baldwin (and others) were chronicling the explosion of the civil rights movement, the fire next1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes time had arrived, or was imminent. Not the case today, only logic of the nation's great sin without the1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes countervailing righteous power of the great movement.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@yeselson @aoscott @chrislhayes Baldwin's 1970s/1980s writings less read but they deal with what we face now: world of glacial change.
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