There is a quite serious link between the "radical left" and the "radical right" that Marx himself struggled against in his lifetime Like if you actually seriously have a "decline" view of history - capitalism keeps making things worse and worse! - you are not a Marxist
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If you actually think those horrible multinational corporations are worse for the world than kings and queens and landed gentry you're a fake leftist, if you buy into "authenticity discourse" about how life was more REAL in medieval Christian villages etc you're a fake leftist
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If you keep invoking the catchy phrase "late capitalism" as though to imply it's somehow a worse time to be alive than "early capitalism" you're a fake leftist If you go on rants about "mass culture" and "lowest common denominators" you're a fake leftist
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I feel pretty strongly about this and I'm a Shakespeare nerd who's seen far more operas than the national average and speaks multiple languages and all that old school Jeopardy shit Get the fuck over yourself
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I don't even really have strong opinions on what an English curriculum would look like - it's a question I am glad is no longer relevant to my life in any capacity - but all these people getting their underwear in a wad over even floating the possibility of reform are dicks
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My own take on culture is that there always has been and always will be trash - trash food, trash books, trash music - and trash is what makes life worth living Any revolution whose goal is cleaning up the trash and building a more wholesome and virtuous world can eat my dick
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That was an epic rant.
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All I wanted to read as a kid was comics, books about dinosaurs, and Anne Rice vampires. It’s pretty simple what he’s saying, and the curious will always be searching out the various canonical tracts.
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