Critical historicism and existentialism • PhD student in philosophy @penn_state • Unionized @cge_psu • Member @centrecodsa • “Nothing human is alien to me.”
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The documentary “Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989” is incredible for how it captures the many contradictions of Israel’s existence hardening in real time. By force of circumstance alone, it shows that Israel’s existence is untenable. It is a great historical contribution.
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The declaration of Sartre et. al. published in support of the student uprising in 1968. All power to the revolutionary students and the revolutionary masses: then and today!
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Tagging people who have made similar points: @petrogustavo @hasanthehun @MouinRabbani @Econ_Marshall @tarenceray @WithoutJudith
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In the last three years, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination has become a global freedom struggle for democracy.
Israel is the Confederacy.
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O desejo fascista é resultado do investimento libidinal na própria máquina capitalista (no que há de pior nela). A alternativa é o investimento revolucionário, em formas de vida comuns. Como o neoliberalismo/realismo capitalista fecha essas possibilidades, se dobra a aposta reaça
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concordo com o mark fisher dizendo que mais do que politizar a raiva, precisamos politizar a depressao
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No one in the U.S. wants to hear it, and it can barely be said over the clamoring pathological dependency on the party system and the self-regard of electioneering, but the only way to breathe life into U.S politics is organized and relentless mass refusal.
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What I find consequential about the Haitian Revolution is that it was the enslaved Africans who took seriously the slogans of the bourgeois revolutions and were the first to attempt to push them beyond the limits of bourgeois society.
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I know even very smart people are functionally illiterate on this point, so it always bears repeating that what Marxism and Christianity have in common, perhaps even more than the primacy of the oppressed, is the critique of religion.
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Abolitionists theorized the ‘slave power’ to understand how minoritarian interests of the south constituted a system that enveloped all the nation’s institutions and subordinated more and more of the world to slavery. We have a great need for theorizing Zionism along these lines.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones said Mamdani lacks the political will and courage to enact real solutions to address systemic problems. This is why he focuses on low-hanging political wins like potholes and free tickets to avoid real issues like policing, NYCHA, jails, HRA, and homelessness.
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Really funny that Lenin's secret to success was just discovering that you can do things
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The popular return of middlebrow cinema has brought about a flood of movies that are only vaguely about something, that gesture toward the idea of having themes but stop at having hype moments and aura. We need a more discerning audience if better films are going to be made.
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To be a willing subject should not mean a subject free from determination but a subject capable of determining, i.e., an active subject. A will-less subject is a passive subject who is only ever acted upon, in a word an automaton.
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If my deepest philosophical commitment could be summarized in a single line, it would be Sartre’s claim in Search for a Method “that historical materialism furnished the only valid interpretation of history and that existentialism remained the only concrete approach to reality.”
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This is absolutely true. The pedagogical ‘common sense’ that lectures are bad, that assigned readings should not be challenging, that teachers must ‘meet students where they are at’ rather than helping them to cross distance, is an unfortunate misconception of a good education.
Seems to me that a lot of trendy education theory & practice is just not ready to admit that the vast majority of kids do not “naturally” want to learn what they are being taught.
Learning is often boring & frustrating. You have to teach kids to tolerate boredom & frustration.
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