All radicals should be encouraged to form institutions. Much moral high-ground posturing and insufferable certitude are rooted in not yet having reproduced pre-ideological institutional pathologies that are the root cause of most things they critique on ideological grounds.
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I agree with this sentiment in principle but also think about the writings of Milan Kundera who captured the absurdity of post-WWII Czech communism as it did just that and formed Institutions that were quite scary in their de-humanising stupidity
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It is revealing that pre-institutionalization socialism as an ideology has outlived institutionalized communism though. Those absurdities are why it crashed in 70 years instead of remaining an aspirational fever dream for 700. Tested against reality.
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I agree. Just think there might be downsides to urging ideologues to prematurely institutionalise. Czech CP is my go-to example of the downsides of prioritising poorly understood abstractions over human life.
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Yeah no question there. I’m just speculating that counterfactual of late institutionalization may be even worse.
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I like the idea that institutionalisation forces the abstract to be real, with all the compromises that entails, but today’s reality is ... weird
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