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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you've got activists now admitting they're heirs and heiresses to millions after that "wonk" guy got doxxed (they rushed to oppose "doxxing" and defend "class traitors" of course). that's meaningless: if money is no object, you'll never understand that money is the object of life
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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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Spot on
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The same with the later Roman martyrs and ascetics, once that became a cool cultural force in a decadent world
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