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there’ve been some shake ups within the leadership of the organization the past 6 years and all those shakeups have led to an increased cultishness with chris cutrone at the center. and that man is pretty much a quack.
if an interpretation of marxisn leads to this type of mystical shit you should be concerned.
So then, what are we? . . . Towards such ends, we might begin (perhaps provocatively) with the list of names that indicate the thoughts and problems issuing from events that, reading history against the grain (with Benjamin), still speak to us in the present: Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Adorno. — Not much more than what is represented by these figures, but absolutely nothing less.
Sounds like pretentious academic leftists.
Who do these “intellectuals” think they are in having influence of the movement? I have never seen an organization takes seriously their thought and word (unlike other great intellectuals) so who are they writings towards? It’s a self-serving vanity project by the petite-bourgeoise of society to serve their self-ego while chiding the masses.
I came in contact with them when I started at uni and I attended some of their reading circles. Basically they’re trotskyists who claim that there has been no real left movement since the october revolution. Because of this they are stuck reading the same texts over and over again, condemning anything outside of their framework. Also they are very cultish. When you want to join, you have to do some kind of mentoring program in which you have to discuss texts of Chris Cutrone on multiple occasions with a member you haven’t met before. I also remember different mailing lists in which all conversations come to an end when Cutrone makes a statement.
marxism but :very-smart:
