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The deeper I get into this the more frustrating it becomes. Gilmore is clearly a brilliant, rigorous scholar, but has also absorbed many of the worst aspects of the Western academy. Aversion to power, fetishization of spontaneity, endless description of the systemic actions of the ruling class but denial of their agency as a group, it's all here and weakens what could be a much stronger analysis.
— Feb 09, 2026 01:01PM
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Gilmore's political economy of California is a deeply researched, extensively sourced review of the reshaping of the California economy during the Great Stagnation crisis of the 1970s. However, her deep aversion to ascribing any kind of agency to the ruling class in their project of expansive social control through the apparatus of the state in order to maintain their power (too "conspiratorial") is frustrating.
— Feb 05, 2026 07:11AM
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Feb 09, 2026 06:07PM
Capitalism has this strange diffusion of accountability to non class conscious people, even the otherwise intellgient. Collective goals of the bourgeoisie dismissed as nonsense conspiracy. Markets simply treated as natural phenomenon. Social murder viewed as the individual failings of every victim. Etc.
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