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.
i could phrase this in a less inflammatory and more careful way with concepts like "discretionary power" and "deprivation" and whatnot but i essentially believe it, and i primarily have in mind individuals, tho obvi the mass extinction events are catastrophic
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
“hey <deadname> if you have any tips or lessons learned from <feature> can you share in the <customer> GenAI(???) chat”
motherfucker just put the tokens in the black box bro