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During the Great Depression: "'To the writers and artists of my generation,' wrote Edmund Wilson, 'who had grown up in the Big Business era and had always resented its barbarism, its crowding-out of everything they cared about, these years were not depressing but stimulating. One couldn't help being exhilarated at the sudden unexpected collapse of that stupid gigantic fraud."
— Jul 04, 2025 11:42AM
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Richard Abdullaev
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in the 1930s, capitalism was critiqued not for being immoral, but irrational. a lot of the things that happened then (automation, lower wages and buying power) resulted in a shrinking middle class, who would theoretically see who the true enemy was and would join the communist revolution, as described in Das Kapital.
— Jul 07, 2025 10:35PM
Richard Abdullaev
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just finished chapter 1, "the left as a theoretical problem." we've established that the left is nebulous and hard to categorize, which is fair.
the fact that the left isn't really an ever-present ideological faction but a collection of outcast reactionaries makes me think of the modern day, as the opposition includes Rep anti-Trumpers, queers, intellectuals, anarchists, etc. who don't share a collective vision
— May 06, 2025 10:31PM
the fact that the left isn't really an ever-present ideological faction but a collection of outcast reactionaries makes me think of the modern day, as the opposition includes Rep anti-Trumpers, queers, intellectuals, anarchists, etc. who don't share a collective vision
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Jul 04, 2025 11:44AM
continued "It gave us a new sense of [...] power to find ourselves carrying on while the bankers, for a change, were taking a beating.'"
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