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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @leebryant
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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Replying to @vgr
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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institutions are the response once you validate your doctrinal MVP?
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They *are* the doctrinal MVP!
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