the most fascinating thing abt rad-left politics was how much of it was crafted by people for whom money was no object, whose "community" consisted of gentrified urban facades that were essentially funerary palls, whose schizo policies were meant to drive twitter engagement
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that's what i talk about when i talk about "doing the work." the "work" is just kind of selling your feel-good goods in a space where there are no consequences, where the messiah always has to be an election cycle away, where the end goal is not socialism but getting on CNN
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when i had nothing, no home and no future, my goal wasn't to get on CNN or "write my novel" or some stupid shit like that. my goal was to get some money so i wouldn't have no money. money, this imaginary shit we've agreed is essential for incentivizing labor. my "work" was work
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This is quite reminiscent of medieval ascetic saints, almost all of who came from well-to-do backgrounds (quite a few were royal, or at least noble).
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This is worrying, but there's also another group who I feel like if you said "you can have all the socialism you want, but we're only giving it to legal white citizens" would jump at that shit in a second.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Who are you talking abt? Thx
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Carlos Maza
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