Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?
7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?
7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.
Does anyone know what Domenico Losurdo would have said about it?
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?
7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.
Does anyone know what Domenico Losurdo would have said about it?
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?
7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.
Does anyone know what Domenico Losurdo would have said about it?
Post by Jeffrey Rubard I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself a "communist" today? What would you mean by that? Jeffrey Rubard
The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of the world" as per 2022. (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)
In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point that you might give up "imputing" it to people.
Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia is in no way "communist". (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)
Or do you think differently about any of this?
*Maybe you don't?*
Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz" than you do --
"Maybe they had some good ideas." You know, I used to be that guy...
...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon countries, and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with friends) may really be more negative than they communicate.
Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.
But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.
Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of these. (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)
Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be? "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.
...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just issue yourself a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?
What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?
7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.
Does anyone know what Domenico Losurdo would have said about it?