Max Castle

Maybe a channeling of forces into a framework equitable to the system, as opposed to letting forces run gambit that might destabilize the system. But that framework - capture entangled with shock absorption - drifts further from the Bioleninist model..

which seems to suggest that marginalized groups were passive prior to 'left agitation'... which is patently untrue, at least in the United States.

NRx argues that the agitation goes back a long way: "The Devil was the first Whig". So, If you're looking at these phenomena on a Cultural Marxist timescale you need to update / deepen your optics.

I'm aware of the NRx argument, which I find dubious overall with some nonetheless interesting points. But the Spandrell's post is clearly contextualized in the same frame of time as the cultural Marxist conspiracy theory, hence bioLENINism.

Apologies, I lazily assumed a lower level of engagement. Would be interested to see you bring your objections directly to @thespandrell he's far from inaccessible here.

I listed my basic disagreements in earlier ITT, though a blog post might be order to outline my thoughts a little more -because the marshaling of dissent/agitation into 'mainstream' political organization is very real, and something that I've had a kind of long term obsession w/.