My interactions with Bordigites have been probably the strangest experience I've had on the left
I don't even disagree with some of their points or criticisms, in fact I think Bordiga is worth reading, but I will never for the life of me understand how the fuck people end up so deep down the left rabbithole that they start defending this guy lmao. And these people have the gall to shit talk Gramsci :gramsci-heh:
They’re generally extremely disconnected from reality and also very invested in being the smartest one in the room. It’s insufferable.
I wound up looking into Bordiga after I kept running into incredibly smug fans of his. Turns out he was just a huge piece of shit and then he died. Unsurprised people with a similar life trajectory latch onto him.
Easier for an entitled westerner to pretend everyone else is doing it wrong and that revolution will just magically happen. Wish fulfillment roleplaying as an ideology.
It's not about his writings per se, just his activity in the Italian Communist Party... somehow. Apparently the guy who was free to walk around shoving lasagna down his throat praising Mussolini and Hitler was the actual threat to the fascists, not the guy thrown into prison to "stop his brain from working" because his mind was such a danger to the fascist regime.
My interactions with Bordigites have been probably the strangest experience I've had on the left
I don't even disagree with some of their points or criticisms, in fact I think Bordiga is worth reading, but I will never for the life of me understand how the fuck people end up so deep down the left rabbithole that they start defending this guy lmao. And these people have the gall to shit talk Gramsci :gramsci-heh:
They’re generally extremely disconnected from reality and also very invested in being the smartest one in the room. It’s insufferable.
I wound up looking into Bordiga after I kept running into incredibly smug fans of his. Turns out he was just a huge piece of shit and then he died. Unsurprised people with a similar life trajectory latch onto him.
Easier for an entitled westerner to pretend everyone else is doing it wrong and that revolution will just magically happen. Wish fulfillment roleplaying as an ideology.
What do people say about Gramsci? His theory of Cultural Hegemony still seems relevant today
It's not about his writings per se, just his activity in the Italian Communist Party... somehow. Apparently the guy who was free to walk around shoving lasagna down his throat praising Mussolini and Hitler was the actual threat to the fascists, not the guy thrown into prison to "stop his brain from working" because his mind was such a danger to the fascist regime.