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I find it really strange how hard Amerika tried to understand itself as history-less

I think the political impotence and distinct lack of answers of the collectives and liberal-left spectrum of the newly emerging parties in the former GDR foreshadowed the death of liberal-left-ism as a whole ~20-30 years later as they were confronted with the task of reforming/reshaping a system that was already historically more progressive than they were.

Es ist wirklich faszinierend wie manche Autoren sich aus Versehen in die richtigen Kritiken an der stalinistischen Bürokratie stolpern (und gleichzeitig komplett bonkers Sachen über die Russische Revolution behaupten [bspw dass man den die Autokratie des Zarenreich einfach übernahm])

Read the essay on police to prep for a review and decided to read it again cover to cover because I'm bored at work

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