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After the urbanomic word salad of revolutionary demonology it is so so lovely to find theory that's genuinely just pleasure to read

ugh

Not entirely uninteresting, the basic premise of the inevitability of western thought leading to unrelenting fascistic expenditure is neat, its just that the prose reads as forced k-speak as opposed to something natural or effortless

what if Nick land tried WAYYYYY too hard

This dude so snarky

I dunno, maybe mutual aid will shed some light on whatever is going on here but the constant handwaving away of legitimate concerns and obsession with individualism and liberty is just, oh so neoliberal. Perhaps anarchism is to libs what trots are to neocons, there's no account for different conditions, and the materialism is much more metaphysical than scientific,, blah

people aren't naturally nice kropotkin!!! they aren't naturally anything!!! you fucking buffoon

"they're shooting at us every day and I'm supposed to give a flying fuck about human rights?"

"a ragtag bunch of young ragtag learn the true meaning of discipline and camaraderie and war and war.

Jesus Christ

deeply uncomfortable, it's hard to find american anti-war stories as they often concern themselves more with the tragedy of the soldier than the obscene violence they deploy on brown people overseas. Less an attempt to find meaning in annihilation than the reckoning of being the empire that rose out of the ashes of Nazi Germany and the indigenous holocaust. Insanely good so far.