Foucault wasn't remotely a leftwinger. He was a fan of both the Iranian mullahs and Chicago economics. He said a bunch of anti-state things that sounded lefty, but that's about it AFAICT.
Wokespeak is indeed annoying, but the left is not the major offender. The worst of it comes from corporate HR offices: scarcely the vanguard of the proletariat. And the MAGAts' version of wokespeak is to puke from. "Preborn babies," indeed!
Here in NJ's CD10 (the Dancing Gerrymander) we've just had a special Democratic primary election to replace the late Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. I listened to a Candidates' Forum in which, out of eleven candidates, only one expressed any doubt about the necessity of reparations. When I first started hearing demands for reparations, it was during Bernie's 2016 campaign, and I figured, this must be an operation of some kind to derail actual class politics as embodied in Bernie's campaign messaging. I get the impulse for reparations, certainly, but not the details of implementation. And, at least at this point, there's still nothing more surely guaranteed to split the working class. Your thoughts?
I dislike the entire reparations approach. I wrote briefly about it a while ago, later I resolved to leave the topic alone until I had read William Darity's book on the subject. The books deals with all the usual objections.
Foucault wasn't remotely a leftwinger. He was a fan of both the Iranian mullahs and Chicago economics. He said a bunch of anti-state things that sounded lefty, but that's about it AFAICT.
Wokespeak is indeed annoying, but the left is not the major offender. The worst of it comes from corporate HR offices: scarcely the vanguard of the proletariat. And the MAGAts' version of wokespeak is to puke from. "Preborn babies," indeed!
Here in NJ's CD10 (the Dancing Gerrymander) we've just had a special Democratic primary election to replace the late Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. I listened to a Candidates' Forum in which, out of eleven candidates, only one expressed any doubt about the necessity of reparations. When I first started hearing demands for reparations, it was during Bernie's 2016 campaign, and I figured, this must be an operation of some kind to derail actual class politics as embodied in Bernie's campaign messaging. I get the impulse for reparations, certainly, but not the details of implementation. And, at least at this point, there's still nothing more surely guaranteed to split the working class. Your thoughts?
I dislike the entire reparations approach. I wrote briefly about it a while ago, later I resolved to leave the topic alone until I had read William Darity's book on the subject. The books deals with all the usual objections.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/reparations-and-bernie-sanders-another-view/
https://marclarrive.substack.com/p/max-sawicky-gets-polemical-about?r=9aln3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3xOMZb30MNri5pFv6iKmnOgTXrkWs_aLXkMzDGcwH4KDyrq8rg04IKXVw_aem_SLLc4iFtyM_oG01-OisrMg&triedRedirect=true
They seem to be shitting on AOC but not Tlaib.
When there are only about a dozen good Congresspersons, you probably shouldn't be too strict with them.
By now the only good member, after losing Cori Bush, is Tlaib. Dumb.