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history & illusion in politics, pg 155-156 bsky.app/profile/did:... footnote: of course this is just a metaphor for interdisciplinary proficiency and interpersonal admirability, i have no deifying delusions here. i'm quite aware this is a predominant tension, for her more than most others.

i want to be a blacksmith and a miniature painter but unfortunately i’m not cinny
above statement is a reference to Utopian thought between words and action: Seminar with Raymond Geuss and the related lecture
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1PfXIEWG4k
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s1AyVXKkt7s

Berlin quite correctly noted that the main line of philosophy since Plato had tended to hold that the good was unitary in the sense that it was in principle possible for a state of affairs to exist which was maximally good in all respects. Thus the society described in Plato's Re public is to be maximally self-restrained; also maximally just, wise, manly, and so on. It is, however, a commonsensical observation that in many realms of human life, although not in all, there exist values which cannot be comaximised. To have an exuberant, vital, and spontaneous personality may be a good thing. To have a reflective, sober, and self -controlled personality may also be a good thing. It may be impossible for the same person to have both in the highest degree; realistically one might have to choose which to try to cultivate. Berlin claims that with regard to at least a wide variety of positive human properties and ideals - strength and sensitivity, equity and mercy, passion and asceticism - it is impossible to imagine a co-instantiation at the highest level, and the choice between them is in some sense a choice between incommensurables. The tension between conflicting demands is not something which could in general be abolished. There are, however, two distinct versions of pluralism, one liberal and one rather more existentialist. The liberal version states that there is a plurality of different goods among which one must choose without there being any single clear criterion for judging one good to be uniquely best. The tacit image of the world presupposed by the liberal version is of a place full of goodies with plenty for everyone: let all enter into the banquet of life and take their pick. There are limits to how much any one person can eat, and so eating some things c…

beyond embarrassing coughing baby blunt rotation to compare with marx
https://x.com/spoti_art/status/1914660080005386647
Spoti @spoti_art 1d
no it is not a must for anarchists to read marx

https://x.com/venturcommunist/status/1914795994878791988
Ruth Baader-Meinhof @VenturCommunist 1d 
it should be

https://x.com/spoti_art/status/1915079815624880548
omg finally @VenturCommunist replied dream come true big fan!
In the movement i am currently in Daniel Guérin, Peter Gelderloos, Errico Malatesta are the most read. 
Obviously we read Marx too, but as I read more and more anarchist theory, the more i realize it is not a must for
us and the movement, especially strategy and tactics wise.
There are texts that should be prioritized over Marx, in my opinion especifista texts (by FAU, Rosa Negra, etc.). These are more important for the movement as a whole, how i see it now.
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i say this as someone with sympathy for malatesta btw. like hes a sweetheart and you should read him too, but it's not remotely the same thing.
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(which, to be extra charitable to op, is their point. but yknow, good luck with your "strategy and tactics" practicism without understanding anything) adorno problems of moral philosophy 3-5



pbc takes a summer break to neglect social-app, all resources to proto [utopia.png]
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i'm sure we can find some divs for sam to center somewhere right
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(i kid i kid)


my good friend @alice-roberts.bsky.social was quite active today but you two weren’t tight when she was around the first time

not to be an insufferable enby but i think the referential distance of people frequently using “willow” rather than pronouns or directly addressing me is cool and it’s neat that it’s arisen without my suggestion



sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry
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i should say less


i can’t wait to talk with you in person about all of this soon



you’re so fucking hot omg

!!!!!!!! yes that’s exactly what i’m doing, master :3

hmmmm fine you pay deference to the woke hmph
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anyway anna we’re all alone and no one can see us here, you could say aaanything

??? saya’s gone woke


hey what the hell u deleted
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wait do u still get notifs if i reply like this


also yeah i’m abandoning my principles by having a dedicated losing my marbles account but idc

i’d like to run away to you
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i always feel like driving when i’m not allowed to yet


and in it, in the pent-up lunacy of Fascist acts and all their innumerable precursors and mediators, the subjective fate buried deep in the individual is integrated with its visible objective counterpart.
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And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.