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landing the spike hitbox on marcina dair feels great every time

*on the chapter that criticizes such “anything but class” academics

i was also disappointed that the book’s subtitle—Rational Fascism And The Overthrow Of Communism—did not mean so much “how fascism has played a role in the global overthrow of communism” as “we will talk about fascism at the beginning to hook you in, and then talk about various other topics relative to communism and its fall”

@monorail ty

also lol

look i haven't played pokemon for well, well over a decade

wait are those even the same evolution line

oh i never updated my profile metadata for this bit

@compufox hopefully your experience will be considerably better than this poor fox’s

@gayocats this could be us

when the video essay is half an hour long, filmed in a studio, and yet, the audio is clipping from the start

anyway the book ends on the chair going after such academics so it feels Pretty Bad

the latter part of that, phrased as a “crisis of freedom”, might accurately describe how hustle culture works, but how on EARTH can you SERIOUSLY CLAIM that the dialectic is ENTIRELY internal when people ABSOLUTELY still have to sell their fucking labour-power to make a living???

anyway remembering how the first chapter of Byung-Chol Han’s Psychopolitics makes the utterly preposterous claim that neoliberism has developed to a point where class conflict does not exist at all but instead has entirely shifted into a dialectic within the self, manifesting as depression and such

it literally brings up the Sokal affair lol

it’s frustrating because postmodern academia IS a thing (there is a “graphic novel” summary of Marxism that spends much of its last pages arguing that there are too many identities for class conflict between proletarians and bourgeoisie to be Real) but like… it’s literally even presented very readably lol…

the most sus stuff in this book is the author’s contempt for what they call “Anything But Class” academics; what he has to say about them feels really uncomfortably close to the incurious, especially given that they say the same shit about the supposed unreadability and dismissal of logic that people throw at like, Butler

@Zest the Ls in “gay villain” stand for lizard