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25 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Marx is the only one I've read and a lot of summaries are actively wrong or misleading
Some of this has to do with the weird track Marx hopped. He was not primarily a cultural critic (though he did some cultural criticism), but rather a very conventional "political economist". Some things get lost when trying to make him primarily a lens for the Humanities
(None of this is a dig on the humanities in general, btw. These are important fields! But I'm not sure Marx would recognize most of the applications you find at universities in 2021, let alone agree with them)
A lot of Marx's economic critique was superseded by what's known as the Marginalist Revolution. The best comparison I can give is imagine reading a treatise on Miasma Theory to explain the pandemic and your lit professor thinks it's current
Bessner Tweets a lot of bad analysis and, hear me out, maybe reading Marx would help him do better

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27 Feb
I guess what I'll say about any apparent link to an Odal rune a certain stage might have is that's a pretty deep cut from Nazi iconography and there are a lot more overt things said by CPAC attendees that require far less parsing and have far less plausible deniability
On the one hand, you literally have to ignore part of the stage to see a strict Odal rune so color me doubtful. On the other hand, if conclusive evidence of this theory emerges, I'm not going to be sitting here going, "Nazis! At CPAC! Well I never!"
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On a very superficial level, #DontKillItBernie is a lot to take in. Set aside what you think the right thing is to do, imagine if Warren were budget chair what that would look like
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26 Feb
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26 Feb
I'm also increasingly disenchanted with the term "culture war". I think it's a good political science term, but its popular use is increasingly to mean, "Distractions from *real* issues" which are usually the speaker's personal interests
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I think it's...interesting...that a lot of people are very convinced that there is no motivated reasoning on the left and also very convinced that the science is settled on a large minimum wage hike
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