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¿por qué me pondría a leer bajo el más perfecto árbol para leer cuando podría simplemente ponerme del otro lado de la calle bajo un imperfecto árbol para leer y ver desde ahí al más perfecto de los árboles para leer?
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A Dutch Marxist has created an index of over 6000 articles from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and summarized and categorized them. Find them here at chinesemarxism.org
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Slavoj Žižek is getting better and better as a public intellectual. This should scare us. Here's why.
Žižek's old problem is that he critiques aimless consumerism while himself being a stupendous consumerist product. In the past, his radicalism has too often been vacuous.
Pulling himself out of a swamp by his own hair, Žižek's commentary has become more incisive. But this is not the main reason he is getting better.
As a civilisation that's stuck, in Gramsci's words, between an old world that's dying and a new world that can't be born, we are inarticulate about our own predicament. We find it scary to talk about the causes of the crisis of trust and alienation from politics we see all around us.
Unfortunately, our public intellectuals are in the same predicament. Many liberal intellectuals have become entrepreneurs for normalisation - they're inarticulate about how Reagan, Clinton, and Obama inadvertently helped cause Trump. Many left intellectuals have become entrepreneurs for narrow identity politics. Many right intellectuals have become entrepreneurs for authoritarian politics.
Meanwhile, Žižek has joined a small minority of public intellectuals who can still acknowledge basic truths about our predicament.
In a BBC Newsnight interview this month, Žižek argued that -
(1) Trump is a symptom, not the underlying problem.
(2) The left has abandoned its commitment to a universal political vision.
(3) The breakdown of democracy and the global order is not temporary.
(4) Trump and Putin together represent a new political-economic ideology.
(5) We lack the capacity for collective action to address three great challenges: environmental catastrophe, global war, and artificial intelligence.
(6) We are needlessly making a bad situation worse by failing to act boldly and snap out of denial.
These thoughts are not extraordinary. They are routine. It is genuinely shocking that Žižek can sound radical by naming realities any educated adult should be able to recognise. Žižek's growing usefulness is a disturbing feature of our times. Above all, it reminds us that a central difficulty of our historical predicament is that it has caused us to be unable to talk about it.
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我不知道巴西人如何区分左翼，右翼？
在中国，左翼认为应该无条件支持第三世界国家，即使这会损害国家利益；
右翼，则是认为应该先照顾好自己的国民，等有余力再尝试去支持外部（我就是这样的）
但事实上，如果我是巴西人，绝不会站在右翼这边。
因为这帮人，似乎想着把国家打包给西方？
这不可接受。
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For anyone wondering why this post is being satirized so much, it’s basically because Rieu takes recognizable and emotionally accessible sections of the classical repertoire and presents them as individual numbers rather than as complete works, and this is regarded as rather vulgar. So he’ll play this and then part of a Strauss waltz, and then something from Star Wars, followed by an orchestral version of the Macarena. It’s not really very different from pop music in that it’s just 3-minute ear-worms, one after another.
Which is all fine, by the way. His variety-show approach is giving lots of people a sense that there’s something beyond what they hear on the radio. But “Western Christian culture” might be better represented musically by, oh I don’t know, Bach’s Mass in B Minor played by an ensemble specializing in baroque music.
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“We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.”
RIP RAOUL VANEIGEM (1934-2026)
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Podría pasar el resto de mi vida contigo, amor, pero eres vegana y a mí me gusta demasiado el cuero y los lululunes de frijol con puerco.
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Partido Comunista de China:
"El golf no tiene ningún valor deportivo en absoluto"
China has announced the ban on the existence of golf courses. It requires that all existing golf courses be incorporated into urban community parks and made accessible to all citizens. Moreover, it states that golf has no sporting value at all.
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China has not announced a nationwide ban on existing golf courses, required their conversion to public parks, or stated that golf has no sporting value; new construction has been paused since 2004. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_in_C… zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD…
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O trabalho deles foi usurpado e capitalizado por uma corporação que não teve o mínimo esforço pra construir o jogo. Na verdade é mais um exemplo de como o capitalismo canibaliza o trabalho alheio e da mais valia, mas vocês são burros demais pra entender
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His books were readily available to read in USSR. They were studied as any ideologies would be studied.
There is a great story Michael Parenti used to tell about a trip he took to USSR. He was with a bunch of American academics, who had been talking down on the Soviets and the censorship they guessed they had been under.
When one of them asked a Soviet academic which western theorists he’d read, he rattled off a long list, which both Friedman and Hayek were on. The Soviet then asked the American which Soviet theorists he’d been able to read.
And the American couldn’t list a single one.
That story is a perfect encapsulation of how real, effective censorship works. You’re not outright forbidden to read. You are, instead, gaslit into it with billions of dollars worth of propaganda, information marginalization, distortion, and lies.
This is why you still find people today who believe in cartoons, rather than simply opening their eyes and looking at the real world, who retreat into safe abstractions rather than face the cold, hard reality that we are the most propagandized, socially engineered, and brain washed people in history.
Milton Friedman on Hayek’s contributions:
“There is no figure who had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek.”
“His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
