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6 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What Freud and Marx do have in common is that every generation of mainstream scholars rediscovers their basic insights and then sells it as revolutionary wisdom - a nice oedipal cycle.
Specimen one

Wow, who knew
This obviously doesn't imply Freud and Marx were not 'wrong' about things - many things in fact. It's just that this falsificationist approach to the history of social science is not particularly interesting.

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8 Apr
I'm sure the point has been made in passing but there really are two central problems with the emerging 'neo/techno-feudalism' synthesis which few critics have focused on, sometimes even explained as a full-on "transition from capitalism back to feudalism."aljazeera.com/program/upfron…
(1) the idea that capitalism somehow abolished ‘personal domination’ and completely separated political from economic power. That was always a propaganda talking point; in practice impersonal market power and personal power have always been intertwined across capitalist history.
There is an argument to be made that the fusion between political and economic power has been strengthened due to stagnation and post-1973 long downturn, but that is a claim for the ‘refeudalization’ of capitalism, not one for a ‘transition from capitalism back to feudalism.'
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4 Jan
This 2015 LRB letter contains one of the most convincing counterarguments to Mair's "ruling the void" thesis - the civil society crisis is real, yes, but asymmetrically, not quite for the propertied parts of society. 'Disorganized' capitalism is only here for the subaltern.
Neoliberalism only wrecked the left-wing side of civil society and instead 'recreated' the right-wing one: while unions and workingmen's associations declined, private schools, CoE, and the Eton-Oxford pipeline maintained ruling class association.
At the same time, the argument's gaps are glaring: anyone driving through the UK will notice derelict Conservative Clubs in small towns, once the bulwark of the first mass party in the world. Tories have lost millions of members since Thatcher or have let the membership age away.
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24 Nov 20
Truly the most talented bully this planet will ever contain.
Also such an interesting window into the 'habitus' of New York lumpen capital, the kind of skills you have to develop to survive and prosper in that milieu.
This one in particular
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22 Nov 20
Churchill once wrote a counterfactual history of the American Civil War, where Confederacy wins at Gettysburg, marches on Washington and then emancipates slaves with British help. No need for Reconstruction (!) - by 1905 an Atlantic white bloc achieves global hegemony. Image
jstor.org/stable/4633653…
Surely the desire for an English-administered Reconstruction had something to do with this episode:

"It is said more Confederate flags flew over Liverpool than Richmond [the city in Virginia was one of the Confederacy's capitals]." bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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22 Jan 20
Whenever I find myself enjoying Hayek I remember that his ideal of human flourishing is an estate agent.
The Greeks had Aristotelian warriors, the Gauls druids, the Aztecs mortal gods, America yeomen, Britain the gentleman — neoliberalism gives us... the estate agent.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone on the right can read both Hayek and Nietzsche and go: “Now let me fuse these for my ideology.”
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