/lit/ - Literature

there's still new leftist theory coming out? holy fuck read something else

>>17167365
>communist flag wrapped around an object in relation to a highly lucrative franchise
Is there a better sign of how hard liberalism beat communism?

>>17167372
no one reads them, people just write them

>>17167365
Came out in 2018 but seems very prescient: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/breathing

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>>17167373
I would bet a fair sum this is from some faggot tenure track professor trying to make a name for themselves on Twitter among the exact same sorts of professors. Let's call them fully-renovated-kitchens-and-boxed-wine socialists. Nancy Meyers could make a movie about these posuers. Man, at least this type of fatuous Marxist of days past had the culture to be derided as Champagne socialists. These retards probably haven't ever seen white tie.

>>17167373
Yes, the irony, communism is nothing but a tool for capitalism.

>>17167444
Little alt-right troll is a dime a dozen round these parts, a clone, a bot, a perfectly forgettable walking talking cliche that disappears into the internet ether. A regurgitating pleb in short.

>>17167365
Agamben - A che punto siamo?

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>>17167463
Double digit IQ posters

>>17167365
FEMALES by the insufferably brilliant Andrea Long Chu

I disagree with the central thesis but there's some good discussion about the difference between greasy landed capital elite (like Trump) and socio-cultural capital elite (coastal liberals) and what drives frictions between them

>>17167609
the former derives their wealth rent on land and natural resources, and the latter from rent on information transfer or control of the legal system

>>17167772

Correct, among other things

>>17167810
Ironically, though Piketty writes about how inequality is far too high, it could, to a large degree, be reduced by reducing rents on information transfer that his class benefits from. Allow free trade in pharmaceuticals, allow IQ testing in lieu of a college degree for hiring, etc.

>>17167365
>communism flag that was probably mass manufactured by a company exploiting their labor force
>wrapped around a mass market product with no value beyond associating yourself with a commercial product made by a huge company
What is this phenomena where people are actually what they revolt against but never realize it? like how non-conformists end up conforming to a different set of standard also how does capitalism keep on winning? it's got to be brainwashing or conditioning or something

>>17167984
Modern "communism" is largely just a theory of niceness. Baby Yoda is nice and the Soviet flag is nice too.

>>17168050
got any recommendations for real communism? or resources for learning communism praxis?

>>17168066
Communists just make stuff up as they go along and declare it not real Communism afterward.

New to me this year