Some dope-ass bear posted this link about Slavoj Zizek in another thread and it gave me an aha moment while reading:
Like many of his fellow self-styled radical thinkers, whose snake oil sells so well because it is ever so slippery, Žižek prides himself on his elusive prose and erratic behavior. In reading him, one comes to anticipate, at the turn of each page, yet another ‘gotcha’ moment when we learn that it’s actually the opposite (of whatever he had led us to believe on the previous page)! Like a child who never tires of playing hide-and-seek, in spite of their inability to actually hide, the Slovenian wunderkind constantly shirks and spirals out of discursive control to say everything and its opposite in the hopes that he can cover his tracks and remain ever elusive. He appears to be ignorant of the fact that there is an obvious and consistent ideology operative in the chameleonic character of intellectuals of his ilk. It is called opportunism.
Now, I tried getting into Zizek by reading some of his works but I was left totally confused as to what this guy was saying. Turns out I was reading it right! Now I want more reveals. I’d love to get some freestyle associations off you bears like:
Zizek- bullshitter with lib tendencies
Parenti- rock solid
etc.
and I don’t mean past masters like Mao and Lenin I mean 1980s and forward. I’m reading something by Losurdo for the first time and, after reading Zizek’s background, was wishing to get some commie crowdsourced wisdom like is this guy legit or is he a NED funded plant. Thus I turn to you comrades. Thanks in advance!
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chomsky - pals with epstein
(I know I’m missing the point here but I can’t think of Chomsky without thinking about his friendship with Epstein)
be like:
libertarian socialism
Libertarian socialismalso not for nothin’ r/chomsky is incredible lately for identifying pedophile sympathies, there’s so fuckin many liberals defending him
luv 2 do my libertarian socialism with a CIA/Mossad cutout trafficking children to the wealthy
big critic of the dictatorship of the rich tho btw
Losurdo seems pretty cool from what I’ve seen of him.
Chomsky is a fucking fraud who gets too much credit for a book he mostly didn’t write while spending his career advocating against Marxism and other progressive tendencies.
J Moufawad-Paul seems pretty cool too, I like his essay on Marxism as a science.
I think Roderic Day is a revisionist, but he still has good writing on a variety of topics, including probably the most frequently-linked essay on Hexbear, and for good reason.
Speaking of Day, I need to look at more works by Jones Manoel, but I just know the one because Day posted an edited translation of a talk on his site.
I’m not sure how much to get into it, but while I have vocal contempt for Trotsky, Trot authors tend to be a lot worse than he was, at least in America.
I have Paul’s book Continuity and Rupture and I don’t dislike him as a thinker, but isn’t he kind of a Maoist ultra, anti-AES guy? Maybe I’m being uncharitable towards his takes on Dengism because I’m used to white guys looking for any reason to oppose China in the present during their life times, but maybe his critiques are solely academic and observational.
I definitely disagree with some important elements of his views, but I generally don’t think criticizing China is a weakness so long as he’s not doing “Third Campist” equivocations about it.
I should have mentioned that but it felt like the obvious problem with his understanding of history and not super interesting for it. Fair enough I suppose on the criticism of the end of China’s revolutionary practice. I’m an enthusiast for the power and discipline of the CPC, but doing so blindly is a liberalism in and of itself.
I read Losurdo’s book on Stalin and am currently reading his book on liberalism. The guy is based af. If he’s a CIA plant the Agency must have an undercover Marxist amongst their rows who conned them into funding him lol.
