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my actual positions are far less tenable than even your least charitable characterization. you all have pathetically impoverished political imaginations
All of us, without exception, are obliged to live lives pretty much at loggerheads with our ideals; but we are socialists and anarchists because of and to the extent that we are irked by this contradiction, and strive to reduce it to a minimum.
On the day we conform to our surroundings, we would of course be spared the determination to change them and turn into mere bourgeois; penniless bourgeois, maybe, but for all that, bourgeois in our deeds and in our intentions.
The Socialists and the Elections: A Letter from E. Malatesta. London, 2 February 1897.
Can be found in Davide Turcato's "The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader", pg. 166.
i don’t really feel like arguing about it but i was referring to the project not cynthoni herself, and i didn’t say her stuff was bad, just implied that it influenced the scene in a particular way
this isn’t an endorsement of catholicism of course, but ive always appreciated the emphasis placed on the autobiographical particularity of his rejection of nationalism (which goes to [a version of] rorty’s point)
i hate poly fags as much as the next guy but i expect our disdain is coming from opposite directions lol: they’re still far too comfortably amatonormative