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Convener @torsion_groups & Host @emancipations_ . Books: . New Journal: . Marxist & Socialist.

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I'm very honored to share my interview @histmat with the great Marxist thinker John Bellamy Foster of the @monthly_review . We discuss the importance of Lukács's masterpiece The Destruction of Reason. Check it out:

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John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and The Destruction of Reason -...

In this interview, conducted on 10 February 2023, John Bellamy Foster speaks with Daniel Tutt about the work of István Mészáros and Paul Baran, contemporary irrationalist tendencies in left ecologi...

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Adorno and Horkheimer analyze racism in their incredible text Elements of Anti-Semitism as a projection of the subject's misplaced exploitation in capitalist social life. But they say fascist racism is different than this more ordinary form of racism as it occurs when authority

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This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.

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Haha what. I might start using this joke on comrades.

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happy birthday to Slavoj Zizek. I've said it before, but hands down the best memory I have of him is onetime after a lecture a group of us were talking. He was eavesdropping on us from above in a hotel room. All the sudden he burst out: "the big other is always listening!"

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When Hegel wrote the Phenomenology he was a freelance tutor, depressed and broke. He had just impregnated his female landlady. Hegel did not get his first formal job until he was 48.

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Happy birthday Schopenhauer (letter from his mom)

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A page from the original manuscript of the German Ideology in the “Feuerbach” section, 1845.

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Some say this is Rembrandt's best painting ever: "Philosopher in Contemplation", 1632.

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Philip K Dick’s letter to the FBI reporting Fred Jameson as a Marxist.

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This Engels biography I'm reading by Hunt is a trip, a few highlights: -Engels's family business was so profitable that he drew (by today's standards) $150k per year in passive income. He also pulled a salary as a manager of the mill. -One of the main reasons he and Marx gained/

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The Americans are untheoretical, matter-of-fact and quite crude. They are tremendously contemptuous of reason and science and yet so conceited about practice. They are frightfully dense theoretically, even the Communist Manifesto is far too difficult for America. – Engels, 1884

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Reading Gramsci's writings on culture and art. He is inspiring at times.

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The confusion over Land is hilarious and throws this whole ranking system into question

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the respect of the working class movement is because Engels not only led the barricades during the 1848 struggles, he also led gun fight battles in open field conflict that pitted workers against the Prussian forces. -In one of these battles his father watched on the sidelines.

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Need one of these jackets pronto.

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Zizek turns 75 today. It would be dishonest to ignore his impact on our generation. He's funny as hell & he works harder than any philosopher out there. While politically speaking he's shown his true colors recently it's important to say he offers a lot more than political takes.

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everyone making hot takes on bourgeois individualism should read this!

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We have lost the great Fred Jameson 💔 I have no words.

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This is probably the best Marxist perspective on the French Revolution. Highly recommend

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Gramsci on the Spanish flu. This is amazing.

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jesus christ he's cropping himself into photos without any hint of irony now. all you ACP boys are playing with fire. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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❤️🇻🇪 CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT MADURO on winning the Venezuelan Elections & defeating the CIA-backed ZIONIST opposition!

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Anthony Bourdain traveled to Palestine and Gaza. He saw the truth of the situation firsthand 🇵🇸

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I'd like to read a piece on how today's right, from Peterson to Lindsay have come to read Marxism as fully realized progressive liberalism and how this differs from say William F Buckley and neocons who saw Marxism as a) Clearly distinct from liberalism and b) A great adversary

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I love this genre of book on the intellectual reading formation of a given thinker. This text traces Mao's reading habits from an early age up to his mature writing. Can't wait to dig in.

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In Breton’s surrealist tarot deck Hegel is the king or “genius” of locks

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@BootsRiley what the hell - this is the wildest thing I have read all day.

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Kurt Cobain in William S. Burroughs's orgone accumulator (1993).

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I think Lukacs was right that defenders of capitalism require romantic anti-capitalists as crucial ideological partners, i.e. part of ruling ideology must possess a critique of itself but from an ambivalent and defeated or pessimistic perspective.

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Currently reading. Oskar Negt once described this book as ‘like watching capitalism in its bedroom, in a social space protected from the rest of the world, where intimate fantasies reign, and the secret wishes and pathologies of the amassing of surplus-value originate.’

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RIP to Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most important philosophers to came out of the great renaissance of 20th century French thought. Where to get started with Nancy's thought? Here are some ideas:

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worth considering

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NEW - Pope: Marxists and Christians have a "common mission."

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Really cool book. Romantic anti-capitalism is a strong concept.

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I saw someone say this is a sign the UAW is "giving into the grad student" contingent of their leadership. That is such a wrongheaded view. It's anti-intellectual idea of the working class that throws both workers and the Palestinians under the bus. Makes me very mad tbh.

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BREAKING: The @UAW is calling for a cease-fire, the largest U.S. union to do so. This is major news for both labor and the larger movement calling for a cease-fire, and could mark a sea change in what has so-far been the modest support from national labor unions for a cease-fire.

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Finished this 500 page beast just now. By far the most important work on psychoanalysis I’ve read in years.

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"Those who are against fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of fascism, are like those who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood. They are

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friends, comrades. Mari Ruti has passed away after a battle with cancer 🥹 May her memory be a blessing. She leaves behind an incredible corpus of scholarship. Her books are original and brilliant. If you have not read her please do so!

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It’s amazing that philosophers like Sartre likely never read Hegel’s Logic, Nietzsche likely never read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, he only read the Critique of Judgment. That tells you something. You can write before reading everything.

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This passage from Žižek really explains a great deal of his politics. It’s like a compact formula that’s reproduced.

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It turns out Deleuze was only 18 years old when he was invited to the secret study circle hosted by Bataille, Klossowski and leftwing Catholic thinker Jules Verne. The circle was dedicated to the development of a new reading of Nietzsche. Deleuze as Nietzschean prodigy. It makes

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Hosting a PhD student at my place. He is up to his neck in Lacanian theory. We are diagramming, referring to mathemes, catching up on Lacanian gossip…debating all the Marx-Lacan stuff. People think we are mad at this coffee shop. The truth is I live for this stuff.

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Weber is right about this!!

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Keep in mind he had a meagre family inheritance that allowed him to live w/out a formal job for so long. Now imagine all the Hegel's that could have been but lacked that little inheritance.

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Happy birthday to Jean Baudrillard. The thinker who was right about far too much. A brilliant stylist. Too politically pessimist to my liking but always prescient.

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"After passing through the hands of Theodor and Gretel Adorno, and perhaps Georges Bataille, among others, the Angelus Novus variously “hung in the Institute for Social Research and later in the Adornos’ living room” before it was given to Gershom Scholem." ..."Underneath the

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This is easily the best book I have read on Althusser. It will give you a newfound respect for him. Despite all my reservations with the legacy of Althusser today, it helps give context to his thought. I feel like without a book like this Althusser is pure rarefied theory.

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Lukács on the mood of the bourgeois class during times of imperialism: "their social existence has a Jekyll-and-Hyde character that oscillates between the most acute feeling for nuance, the keenest over sensitivity, and a suddenly erupting, often hysterical brutality."

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The problem with Kant according to Lenin

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I'm becoming Adorno-pilled. "The logic of history is as destructive as the human beings which it begets: wherever their inertia tends to go, it reproduces the equivalent of past calamities. Normality is death."

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currently reading

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This is one of those canonical books that isn’t read anymore. Or have you all read it? Am I wrong to assume people sleep on this book today? It’s really great btw.

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Desire: a question without an answer Drive: an answer without a question

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C.L.R. James (1971): "George Jackson's prison letters are in my opinion the most remarkable political documents that have appeared inside or outside the United States since the death of Lenin."

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Zizek now has a third book dealing with the pandemic.

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Mark Fisher was committed to 'post-capitalism' not socialism or communism. He thought communism in particular was too tarnished in the popular discourse. But I feel that post-capitalism is now dead. It strikes me as a vague, almost academic, even technocratic term.

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No my friend it will not just be Muslims and Arabs. We can never allow another corporate democrat to ever, ever lecture us on the lesser of two evils script. All that identity politics to discipline and split us apart. They have nothing to say now. Hollow frauds.

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I've been told that many DNC insiders, as well as those within the Biden campaign and administration are convinced that by the time elections roll around Arab, Muslim voters will "cool down" and "forget" about all that is happening in Gaza. They are mistaken.

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Kant at 300. One thing that has totally changed my view on Kant is reading Marxist interpreters of Kant such as Goldmann and Karatani. Both thinkers find in Kant the founder of modern socialism. It's a much different reading of Kant than you'll find in liberals like Rawls or

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I'm baffled by this answer. It makes socialism sound even worse than the run of the mill austerity workers face day-to-day. It reminds me of Marx's critique of Proudhon's conception of socialism as exacerbating resentments.

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My syllabus for a class I'm offering on Freudian-Marxism this February:

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Julia Kristeva, after writing a series of books on "revolt" in psychoanalysis. Q. Do you find Frantz Fanon an important interlocutor? A. I have often heard people speak of him, but I have never read anything by him. He isn’t part of the mainstream of Psychoanalytical Studies.

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Good lord was Richard Rorty anti-Marxist! 90s era academia was a totally wild place... "Who are these people? Do people buy books from Verso?" 😂

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Book cover proofs have arrived for Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. This will be coming out in early 2022. Stay tuned for more info.

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apparently Marx would re-read hundreds of pages and write up extensive notes on certain texts just to change Engels's mind and persuade him on very particular issues where they disagreed. This is how study should be among comrades.

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one of the most powerful psychoanalytic critiques of culture that I work with is this: finance capitalism has eroded shame almost entirely and the effect has been the steady removal of mystery and reverence in our everyday lives.

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Lacan has a useful way to think of trauma: it cannot be fully symbolized. The unconscious partially replaces and covers over the traumatic experience with other signifiers not centered around the traumatic content. this is why nonsense words that are repeated often point to it

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George Steiner once met with Lukács and saw a paper he was writing on The Aesthetics of Film. But he learned that Lukács had only seen one film The Blue Angel. He said Aristotle only went to the theater once to see Oedipus but that was enough to write the Poetics. One was enough.

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It baffles me how you can visit people's feeds who typically have a lot to say on politics and see no mention of the genocidal war on Gaza. To see total indifference like that is the pinnacle of cowardice. It means they can't be trusted in other political arenas.

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Walter Benjamin did not like Jung 🧙‍♂️😂

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Freud: My dear Jung, promise me to never abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark. Jung: A bulwark against what? Freud: Against the black tide of mud—of occultism. —1910

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You gotta love the way this book is written. Lucid and rigorous. one of the the best intros to the dialectic 💃🏼

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Which way western man?

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I’m tired of Nietzsche and I’m scared shitless of Heidegger. Louis Althusser, 1984

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“Society of Materialist Friends of the Hegelian Dialectic” The name Benjamin, Brecht and Lukacs gave to their crew. Kind of adorable for how nerdy it is.

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A useful book on the turn away from critique of systems of exploitation and power, towards an "affect" and "reparative", post-critical form of scholarly activism that has by now been totally absorbed by the state and elite universities.

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That time Lukács thought he was going to be taken off to Stalin’s gulag 😅 Love this story. Recalled by George Steiner.

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Explain the graph of desire to me. Don't dumb it down! The funny thing is even when Lacan dumbs it down, it's still hard to grasp it all!

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Things are bad but we gotta take a minute to get this straight here.

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This is easy.

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Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher?

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Žižek is a writer and a Lacanian, obviously. But that combination means something specific. He writes so much because writing has become his cure, writing is like an infinite analysis. It means something that he never finished his analysis. It continues in writing. Ultimately,

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Nietzsche on the Paris Commune: "a Saturnalia of barbarism" .... "a haunting spectre embodied in a class of barbaric slaves who have learned to regard their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to avenge, not only themselves, but all generations."

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Chomsky is so insufferable - this tells you so much about American academics

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@heavyredaction I made a very similar observation earlier

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Marx's theory of Bonapartism remains the best framework for understanding this precise thing.

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oh no some weird guy won the election and is going to preside over an ineffectual period of rightwing government that doesn't actually end up affecting existing power structures but in fact buttresses them and in the end sustains the useless status quo that got him there? Waow

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more and more we will have this sort of posture with public figures: a full on embrace of general shamelessness, a turn to the inflammatory and even self-inflicted humiliation rituals. We should avoid these sort of things. They strike me as what psychoanalysis calls "acting out"

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You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?

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If you want to read some top notch and highly lucid psychoanalytic (specifically Lacanian) analysis on culture check out these by Paul Verhaeghe.

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the cover art of Negri's seminars on the Grundrisse look like a death metal album

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If we begin to think of Oedipus as just extremely unlucky, psychoanalysis would be a completely different thing. -Adam Phillips

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Adorno's essay "Reading Balzac" is remarkable. One of those pieces that's so good that you make a note of nearly every sentence.

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Oh wow Huey Newton says he was inspired by Nietzsche’s critique of morals and language as he and the Panthers experimented to make the name “pig” stick for cops.

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Newly discovered papyrus scroll reveals what Plato did in his final hours.

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Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash

Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician

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here's Lukács just saying it plain. Its always been about Nietzsche and the liberal intellectuals.

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Byung-Chul Han's popularity is startling. It's good no doubt and he is absolutely brilliant. I'd love to read a work that considers Han's politics. For a thinker hailed as the new direction in critical theory it is curious to me that he does not seem to have a strong connection

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if you wanna read a book on the family that will really blow your socks off

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On the reading list for 2023 ⬇️

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Interviewer: "If you were to search for the philosophical roots of Stalinism, where would you look primarily?" Lukács: "The most important distortion, without which Stalinism would not have been possible, is in the way that Engels, and after him a number of Social Democrats,

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The reality is psychoanalysis requires four to five sessions per week. At that level of frequency the exchange shifts from therapy to psychoanalysis. And no one in America has the time, and few the money, to undergo that other than people in training to become a psychoanalyst.

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Hegel was a high school teacher for 8 years and during that time he wrote the Science of Logic and the outlines for the Encyclopedia Logic. How you like them apples.

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Lukács thinks Nietzsche's eternal return and his entire thought is about a type of immanent affirmation that's designed for bourgeois philosophy brats i.e. an immanence meant to affirm the everlastingness of capitalism. This reading really bothers people and I am here for it.

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@RemingtonWild In-between revolutionary sequences Engels would often retreat to the South of France to drink fine wine. The man deeply enjoyed a good drink.

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