It's not to say that all problems are inherently difficult to solve and require dramatic compromises that leave no good options, etc. But it IS a focus on the fact that those problems exist, and she sets up scenarios where it's really laid bare.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
To Noah's point here, though - I think it's correct to assess this as being counterrevolutionary; I think it's just a fairly strong counterrevolutionary case.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @nberlat and
It's like how if the Matter of Seggri were the only thing she ever wrote about gender she'd come off as an MRA
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I do think it's echoed in other parts of her work as I say, though it's not her *only* take on the subject at all. and she changes over time too.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
I’d agree with that. She certainly never says “never act,” but “be cautious about it” is pretty consistent. I call her anti-utopian, by which I don’t mean she’s against “the better” or even “the good” but rather “the perfect.” Folks do monstrous stuff for the perfect.
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Replying to @GiffordJames @arthur_affect and
right...but I think in a cold war context that kind of rhetoric is difficult to separate from anticommunism, right? like, "the problem with communism is the desire for a perfect utopia" is pretty standard liberal anticommunist rhetoric of the time.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
It’s also a standard anarchist critique of driving the revolution from the position of a dictator. Reading her via Luxemburg may be more useful (her anti-capitalism is as consistent as her anti-utopianism, though reading it as liberalism is also pretty common).
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Replying to @GiffordJames @arthur_affect and
well, re ambiguity, I don't think it has to be just one thing, anarchist critique or more liberal anticommunism. in a story that's nodding to Orwell especially (not sure what else to make of "George Orr")
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Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and
It might be, or she might have really liked the sound. Keep repeating it it really rings into a "jorjorjor" sound
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
I'm not kidding! She might have found herself muttering "george george george" at some point and gone "I'm gonna name somebody jorjorjor"
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There was a Star Wars comic about how Jar-Jar Binks' real name is "George R. Binks"
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