@schakalsynthetc @GrumplessGrinch The thing struggle sessions *replace* and *destroy* is indispensible, and on rare occasions even healthy.
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch I don't think we really disagree here.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch I mean, I endorse the Chesterton's fence argument wrt replacing social tech with revolutionary struggle sessions1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch in a lot of cases (not this one, obviously, but some of the cases this one takes as models), it's already moot1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch radical political cultures grow in societies that have *already* broken down, thru war, economic crisis, etc2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc@GrumplessGrinch Western radical political culture for much of 20C wasn't a reaction to breakdown but a weapon of war.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch yeah, it imported ways of thinking & doing that were valid & necessary in their contexts but wrong & toxic in ours1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc@GrumplessGrinch They didn't work out real well in their home contexts, either.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch eh, it's a mixed bag, really. some of the results were unspeakably awful, but, Stalingrad.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch what counts as success is relative to how likely it was that sth *even more hellish* could have happened instead1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@schakalsynthetc @GrumplessGrinch Russia, China, Cambodia. Hindsight is 20/20, of course.
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