Happy first night of Passover, Good Friday, and Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate. And a warm welcome as well, of course, to our comrades who do not.
Julio Cortázar is my favorite Spanish-language author, so I'm making today's mega about him. If you'd like to share something random with the class, please feel free to make a mega in the future!
Anyway...
Cortázar is an Argentinian writer, and according to Wikipedia, "He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity."
So that's pretty cool. He was particularly active in the 50s and 60s.
In general, what I really like about Cortázar's writing is the clarity and purposefulness with which he writes. He neither condescends to the reader, nor seems to go out of his way to try and impress. He is certainly clever in his writing and it's by no means simplistic, but it feels like every literary flourish has genuine purpose. And contrary to what my Spanish literature professor said, I maintain that his story about getting trapped in a sweater is simple, funny, and not some bizarre allegory for a penis. Sometimes a sweater is just a sweater. (My professor was sort of obsessed with seeing phallic and/or sexual imagery, motifs, and innuendo in everything we read.)
I think his works sadly lose a lot in translation, as with many Spanish-language authors, particularly from that era. But maybe I'm just a fuckin hipster?
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I don't respect your post a single bit. I'm talking about seeing the actual victims of capitalism, displaced and vital members of what you could call our society reacting to getting displaced with a need for violence, specifically against a group of people based off of what they perceive to be a profession and what we can define as class. I didn't like, egg them on and lead them to this, I ask them "what brings you to my place of work", they talk about it for 5 min and if they aren't just totally beaten down, they're so fucking angry they have tears in their eyes. They're not going off about any specific race or gender or some shit, even if they have reactionary tendencies and living in burgerland they probably do. That's fine, if your socialist project doesn't account for bringing in some reactionary people and uniting them though their class interests in order to dilute or eliminate their toxic views, it's gonna fail.
Your response to that is "look at this youtube video's comments". You need to log the fuck off right now if you think for a second that this bubble we interact in is any sort of genuine assessment of anything and not just a bunch of intelligence/advertisement agencies playing yaldabaoth. Is my personal sample size indicative of anything? Probably not, I might have just gotten lucky that I've had 10+ people across different ages and races all came to the conclusion that they're getting fucked over (specifically by my class's enemy!) and the only way to deal with it is through force. Also like, sorry, I've worked enough jobs where I have faith in the working class of this country and I believe we will succeed in creating a society ran by workers on the continent. If I didn't believe that, I'd either try to get out of the country by any means necessary or walk into traffic.
And also, what the fuck does posting that on this site do, even if you do genuinely believe we're in the timeline of darkest reaction? Why are you here? We lost apparently, if this is just an aesthetic thing or a hobby, pick up an instrument or something. Awful, demoralizing post. We will win with the support of cashiers and warehouse workers, and I don't doubt that for a second.
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I didn't call you a fed, I didn't even kinda suggest it, you just kinda sounded like someone who was terminally online. But you do understand why posting on a "leftist" website "you lost and you're fucked" and then instantly responding with "I'm not part of the FBI" would make me incredibly suspicious of you.
I don't know how you can see dollar hegemony collapsing and an Amazon union forming within a month of each other and say that this system isn't in terminal rot.
I'm not disappointed in the first place. Like you said, we live in the most propagandized country on the planet. We're not perpetrators, we're victims and the whole point of my first post was that, despite that, without me trying to angle shit in that direction, there is genuine desire against our enemies. My optimism comes through actual participation in labor and the experiences I've shared with my coworkers and other people who have to work for a living. I don't expect them to be socialists just because Bernie ran, but they're on the right track and that's all I want from them until the collapse of these institutions allow for a left to form without being geeked (which, hey, again, look at those supply lines, look at who has all the diesel and fertilizer, we're not talking decades here). They don't work for me, I work for them.
yeah no fucking duh the mom with three kids isn't gonna buy a glock, cowboy up and do mao shit. And if they did it right now, it wouldn't make things better. But they want to and no matter how you try to spin that, that's a W. You can say it doesn't matter but there's popular support for what we want to accomplish.
And again, why are you here? Never wanted to touch that, huh? We're just a bunch of larping losers anyways, there's no point doing anything outside of keeping your head down anyways. What was your post trying to accomplish? Telling people to "get real, disengage, this is never gonna work and whatever victories we do get are pointless" is actively detrimental and if your post is sincere you should be fucking ashamed.
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dude I don't know what to tell you, you just sound like a cop or someone who doesn't want to be responsible for not doing shit, like nothing you posted was even kinda right and I feel bad for having wasted time on you in the first place
well if you actually did learn a goddamn thing you wouldn't be posting the dogshit you did
if you're just gonna post detached and blatantly wrong shit, we don't like you, fuck off
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