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Of course the claim Luxemburg lmao

I think if you want to argue that the whole concept of revolutionary marxism is in crisis then you should put in a lot more effort than to vaguely gesture at Vietnam, Cambodia and the rise of new social identities/struggles

Checking out what the Geese boys are onto

Interesting concept of putting the interesting essays last and the socioslop first

Every time an author emphasizes the "determination" of the Palestinian people to survive and flourish they sound like they are the exception of the rule and every other population that faces extermination just submits quietly which sounds to me quite unlikely

Every time an author highlights the "determination" of the Palestinian people to survive and flourish they sound like they are the exception of the rule and every other population that faces extermination just submits quietly which sounds to me quite unlikely (and a bit idealistic idk)

Alot of these essays retreat ground from other essays and while this is a bit irritating and easily solvable by the editors but it gets a bit puzzling when they claim different figures for the same stats (e.g. destroyed hospitals). I assume these essays have been researched at different points in time of the ongoing war but it's still strange regardless

Page 2 of Gaza: Hope, Care and Genocide and the neologism counter is currently at 8

No words how much it means to me that Lena Dunham lived in the apartment in which the final scene of Frances Ha was shot

Lowk crazy that she really hung out with each and everyone whose filmography I adore

Really crazy that she hung out with all the people who's filmography I adore

When discussing the social Inertia of women choosing Morgan's Total Woman over The feminine mystique I think she hits a very important point, in that becoming a subject is indeed a very scaring prospect

The Mazama chapter had me weeping

I think I'm in love with this book

Crazy to read an EPL from a woman with actual problems

The fact that he calls China capitalist in 1963 is sending me every time

Man, this India section is such a slog to get through, like girl, you are the last person I want thoughts of spirituality from

The fact that James Jackson is responsible for this horrendous checks out sooooo much omggg

Günter Kunert is God's favourite ameriboo

Günter Kunert is my favourite ameriboo

Unrelated to the text: EPL follows the narrative structure of a coming of age story very closely, so if we deem EPL outright as a reactionary story we have to do so with every CoA story, as many of them find the resolution on a very individual sense. Even most of the radfem Verständigungsromane did so

Liz Gilbert would not have survived a lesbian break up

Garcia reminds me why I had to leave Arendt behind me eventually

Garcia does this, in my humble (materialist) view, strange thing where she treats the social sciences, especially philosophy as the central catalyst and not the expression of the current society that surrounds it

Every critique of the term patriarchy feels highkey like this emoji 🤓🤓🤓

In his review of 'Eat, Pray, Love' (2010) Roger Ebert called the movie wish fulfilment for women, and when I read a page of what she eats for lunch and has a fictional discussion with her ex-husband where she tells him that it's all been worth it I really can't be mad at the book

Wonder if Pelicots refusal to acknowledge the abuse of her daughter a symptom of our moment of feminist sleep paralysis. she gets that her symptom is somewhat systemic but she wants justice only for her and the other plaintiffs, not the ones who fall out of the legal system.
I would argue that there is also a remnant of the egoism of the post feminist moment of the 2010s in there

Garcia would have gained much if she would not just have read 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' but also the spiritual successor, Arendt's lecture series 'On Evil', so she wouldn't have clung as much to the judicial system as much as she did

Manon would have gained much if she wouldn't just have read Eichmann in Jerusalem but also the spiritual successor, Arendts lecture series on evil, so she would have clung as much on the judicial system as much as she did

The more I read of EPL the more I dread watching the movie because there is no way a 2-hour movie made by Ryan Murphy could capture the wit and surprising emotional depth this novel has