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This piece from Tobias Phibbs is superb. A first-hand account of the radical cultural left and what happens when disorder and unhappiness become the beating heart of a political movement. 1/3 https://unherd.com/2020/09/confessions-of-a-student-marxist/
Phibbs draws on the late Mark Fisher and Philip Roth, as well as @wesyang and @Jacob__Siegel to show how the suffering of others has become just another form of social capital for a new class elite. https://unherd.com/2020/09/confessions-of-a-student-marxist/
This politics, he writes, "recruits on the promise of self-healing and community. The reality is an ouroboros of emotional manipulation, stripped of the political and of all that makes life interesting and worthwhile." 3/3 https://unherd.com/2020/09/confessions-of-a-student-marxist/
