PhD student in philosophy @penn_state • Unionized @cge_psu • Member @centrecodsa
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Jun 16
The increasingly hegemonic idea of philosophical pluralism is so contemptuously ideological. A critical perspective on the continental and analytic divide must look at the institutions, in which analytic philosophers have a vast hold on who gets jobs and how ideas are reproduced.
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Jun 16
The U.S. once had lively continental, analytic and pragmatist currents; seeing that continental philosophy is disappearing and pragmatism has been reintegrated within analytic philosophy, some useful idiots will argue that the divide is over—perhaps, but it is not a good thing.
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Jun 15
I got to NYC right before the Knicks won the championship, and it was educational to see in real time how the ecstatic celebration, the deep communal optimism of everyone was immediately hemmed in by a gang of forty policemen on horses and in riot gear. It looked untenable to me.
Jun 15
the thing is if you saw or were on the street during knicks celebrations anywhere in the city, you know there is an abolitionist (also nihilist/anarchist) germ to it -- 'fuck nypd' is part of the vibe -- and to have a socialist mayor be policing its limits blows
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Jun 15
What transcends any particular thesis and—contra Lukács—even any method, is dialectical rationality. Marxism is the shape of dialectical rationality in the epoch of capital; if we ever manage to abolish capital, then Marxism would be abolished, but not the rationality beneath it.
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Many cite Black Reconstruction for his concept of libidinal economy, race as “psychological wage.” The term makes sense of a late 19th-century bond between rich and poor whites that preclude multiracial solidarity and provoke brutalities like lynching campaigns.
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Why always takes precedence over what.
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Jun 6
Holden Taylor (@comradejumpshot) reflects on the failure of the Zohran Mamdani administration and NYC-DSA to deal with the political problems posed by the NYPD.
cosmonautmag.com/2026/06/let…
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Jun 9
It is a wretched lie that “the dominant Marxist stance on policing was one of relative neutrality,” and this conformism needs to be opposed at every single turn. The socialist right-wing is so willing to drop its character mask and reveal itself to be utterly reactionary.
The merits of defund/abolish aside, I simply reject the premise that opposing cops and prisons is this intractable part of socialism that we should or should not compromise on. All the way up until like 2019 the dominant Marxist stance on policing was one of relative neutrality.
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Aimé Cesaire, in Notebooks of a Return to the Native Land writes: “Begin what? The only thing in the world worth beginning: the End of the world, of course.” For revolutionaries and communists, this beginning is an axiom: “The existing world is not necessary”.
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Jun 5
I was listening to an old talk from Mark Fisher this morning, and felt heartbroken that he isn’t here. His capacity to articulate experiences through multiple layers of culture and political economy is missed, all the more because it was never cynical. youtu.be/aCgkLICTskQ?si=DT7B…
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Jun 2
I find the inframaterialists in Disco Elysium to be a small comfort in dark times, even with their satirical absurdity. Building the matchbox tower with them and seeing it stand for a moment longer than it is physically supposed to is a nice encapsulation of the communist spirit.
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Jun 1
So very much of the Phenomenology of Spirit is already contained in Kant’s “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim,” despite how brief it is. When reading this passage, one can almost see Hegel reading it too, setting out to fulfill it, with and against Kant.
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Jun 1
The passive use of ‘historically progressive’ in the Marxist lexicon is wholly irrational and stupid. For it to be used rationally, one would need to specify who it is progressive *for,* and toward what ends, and this would mean acknowledging that history has an ethical valence.
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Jun 1
Many people interpret the Marxist rejection of moralism as an excuse to avoid the question of ethics as such, but this suppresses the class antagonism that Marxism is supposed to bring to light. History’s objective movement is not without values, progress is not a general term.
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Jun 1
The most remarkable aspect of the existentialist project is the capaciousness that all of its major thinkers exemplified. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, and Fanon sought a philosophy capable of bringing together everything, they never feared developments that were new to them.
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May 30
Oddly I suspect that Lenin and Husserl are closer in this regard than we might take them to be, and much of ‘common sense’ empiricism is an obstacle to thought. Marx, similarly, proceeds from the abstract to the concrete, and not as we might assume, from observation to theory.
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May 29
This short passage from “Winesburg, Ohio” by Sherwood Anderson is one of the most beautiful that I have ever read, as much for its simplicity as for its wanting. The book as a whole is already one of my favorites.
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