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I’m glad I’ve broken the threshold of determinate being most give up at because of the Stephen Houlgate😂

The immense use of mao is not accredited enough

Genuinely incredible and pithy. Gargantuan scope and phenomenal accessibility

One of the craziest reads of all time; only work that has rivaled the complexity and scope of Adorno’s negative dialectics for me.

Still enjoying very much tho thesis is less explicitly applied

Reading last sections in full that aren’t in the abridged bilingual version from aliexpress lol

Goat

A lot of historical groundwork on the lumpen that can get rote but is obviously important but the arguments scattered around and before and after the section of the genetic code are pithy and brilliant openings for future activism

Anh revisiting it after like a year break makes some of the arguments pretty repetitive and asinine… I think this book is mainly for people unfamiliar with the Maoist milieu. May revisit for my review on how effective it is for that purpose but at least was for a younger self.

Both very fruitful but confusing to read this side-by-side with Althusser’s self-criticism

Gets a bit slow in the weeds of historical retellings of the situations of the original lumpen (as Marx and Engels anointed), but I know the upshot will be worth it

Bro def went through some crazy experiences in militant organizing

The Dengist tendencies are becoming too clear… I need to be careful on seeing how the editors’ have framed the book but also see Losurdo’s words for what they are

Cute but pithy book

Somehow her application of relative surplus value is even better than her summary of commodity fetishism

Silly but the pro China editors need to chill a bit

So cool to see the bromance of Marx and Engels

Such an underrated revolution in the philosophy of science. Foucault being dramatic about Althusser in the intro is funny

Can’t believe someone said not to read this. Esp orthodox Marxists trying to grapple with Althusser as a militant this is a must read