#Bourgeois

Leftism 101: using trauma, your own or others, as a moral battering ram for bourgeois policy making that destroys the most vulnerable among us.Get f*cked Felix, you're not only one
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Lot of assumptions made here. Whatever. I don’t have contempt for women or poor people (clearly to people who know me). But feminism IS a bourgeois ideology that posits that
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I told y'all you weren't ready for this, lol.The most common response I'm getting is: "scientists aren't bourgeois because they don't own the means of production."Everyone arguing this point is
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The defining characteristic of bourgeois literature its claims to property rights over other people's pain. (aka the Maggie Nelson effect) You can read it via gender as well. Kate Zambreno's
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Thing I saw just now and have witnessed plenty irl too, is the following move made in lefty circles:
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I am again working on research abt n*zi propaganda, and I am stricken by the (esp. in pre-1933 texts) pervasive appropriation & twisting of the language of socialist critique and
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Pervasive to Marxist thought is the (implied) idea that theory takes precedent. By dismissing the only empirical reality we have, the Marxist method seeks to find the ‘true’ meaning concealed
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More than one person in the recent past has called me a "moderate" This perturbs me! I'm sceptical of representative democracy and the parliamentary road to socialism, I want to
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Life comes at you fast! A few months ago @OwenJones84 was following me on here. Yesterday he blocked me after I tweeted a Spanish cover of his book, saying it
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Being straight is bourgeois. Sexual identity didnt exist 300 years ago. It's a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with the shift to neoliberal democracy across the globe. Straight is
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feel like starting some beef between people who make their porridge with water (correct, lovely) & people who make their porridge with milk (bourgeois pigs) shit, just realised i shared
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Some important notes on the Swiss political system: (Voutat, Rayner, 2017) The '(actually semi-/pseudo-) direct democracy' in Switzerland creates a dimension of indeterminacy (a key component of the ideal of
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Leftists with very little understanding of the actual labor conditions of sex workers are eager to categorize the class character of sexual labor. The fact is sex workers’ labor conditions
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Banal bourgeois libs don't need to scapegoat me as "fascist" because I don't have any power. The left, being idealists to their bones, think discursive influence = real power. They
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People who think identity politics defines “the left” are only aware of “the left” as the bourgeois lifestyle of “radical chic” & not as the serious methodological understanding of the
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i wish people would stop trying to turn activism into careers. it's impossible without sacrificing ~desperately~ needed principles. impossible. not at a company. not at a university. not at a
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