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Wei Chang is on page 85 of 349 of The Left at War (Cultural Front)
p.76 the claim that Chomsky would assert “no one brings these facts to light except for me” is extremely subjective, to me what Chomsky tried to express is simply “these need to be discussed”. So far I only think the content after p.82 is worth reading, it’s an interesting analogy of using the movie Matrix to describe the left. Otherwise this book is full of straw men.
Feb 08, 2026 09:03PM Add a comment
The Left at War (Cultural Front)

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 60 of 349 of The Left at War (Cultural Front)
So, regarding 911, let’s ask this fundamental question: why it was in NY? Why it was not Tokyo that has been bombed? Why is was not Bangkok, or Helsinki, or Minsk, or Bueno Aires, or Lisboa, or Geneva? Why are the Islamic fundamentalist so fixated on the US? Because US is a bad cop?
Jan 31, 2026 01:05PM Add a comment
The Left at War (Cultural Front)

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 31 of 349 of The Left at War (Cultural Front)
It seems that the author is the marginalized one, after witnessing the horrendous military action by Obama administration, after hearing the jaw dropping remarks on the refugees that “look like us”, after the spectacular kidnapping, we now can confirm the elephant in the room is indeed an elephant.
Jan 28, 2026 07:22PM Add a comment
The Left at War (Cultural Front)

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Wei Chang is finished with Men in Dark Times
p. 244 “in capitalist countries opponents were not beaten to death and shipped home is sealed coffins”, but the citizens of the capitalist countries are fed the blood of the citizens abroad, the iraqis, the vietnamese, the afghanis, the somalis, the Algerians, etc., so that the oppressed are happy.
Jan 25, 2026 03:28PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 183 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
The previous sections of the chapter “Walter Benjamin “ was kind of too trivial but essential in a sense that those topics are of important part of his thought but how it was written made it too fragmented to be appreciated.
Jan 15, 2026 07:41PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 140 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
Does philosophy ever try to prove itself?
Jan 06, 2026 07:58PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 112 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
p.95, it seems that “Isak Dinesen” is rather a critics of a badly written biography.
p.111, “The circuit of Broch’s life and creativity,..was not actually a circle; rather, it resembled a triangle whose sides can be accurately labeled: Literature-Knowledge-Action.”
Jan 04, 2026 01:29PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 86 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
I found her statement about fraternity and friendship regarding human emancipation absurd. And when I think of it, non of her statements are testable, I guess that why she’s a philosopher rather than political scientist.
Dec 29, 2025 10:26PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 11 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
Dark Times: in which the public realm has been obscured and the world become so dubious that people have ceased to ask any more of politics than that it show due consideration for their vital interests and personal liberty.
Dec 27, 2025 05:19PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 10 of 272 of Men in Dark Times
p.10 “The pillars of the best-known truths…today lie shattered”, but have we ever asked if the pillars we do proudly relied upon, are illusions?
Dec 27, 2025 05:03PM Add a comment
Men in Dark Times

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 64 of 256 of Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
I think I probably have to read those the books by those authors first to know all the references.
Dec 27, 2025 04:58PM Add a comment
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 136 of 240 of A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension
p133, the fact that the volume of a hyperball with a radius of 1 peaks in the fifth dimension is the most mind blowing thing I've read for the entire year.
Dec 15, 2025 06:58PM Add a comment
A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 350 of 448 of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
People keep on using the analogy of an orchestra without a conductor while not mentioning every performer in the orchestra must be trained for years, even decades, to perform and since they are in a orchestra they must be sharing common music background, training, altitude, etc., while our society members only tried to figure out what is EU after Brexit became reality.
Jul 26, 2025 02:26PM Add a comment
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 288 of 448 of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
I think we should stop romanizing the effect of the movements and the grievances from the margin. Protest is the demonstration of anger, but it is also just an emotional drama. While not focusing on the solution, or destructive attempt, history would never progress.
Jul 24, 2025 07:36PM Add a comment
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 230 of 448 of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
A musician without instrument, only notes; this is what I think of the idea of the multitude. The left in the past few decades decapitated itself, cutting the "common" into tiny pieces we call minority group, gender, sexual orientation, migrant, and whatsoever but non of them has a clear plan to exercise what mind be necessary to the ordinary people.
Jul 22, 2025 07:18PM Add a comment
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Wei Chang
Wei Chang is on page 157 of 448 of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
The major issue is, lack of empirical evidence. One example is regarding the decentralized organization structure for resistance, and clearly all the examples provided actually failed to make substantial change, or simply, failed as being crashed entirely.
Jul 20, 2025 07:57PM Add a comment
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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