“Ultimately, his strategy is to sabotage his way into the hearts and minds of the people who currently inhabit the power structure. This is just one of the crazier varieties of liberalism I’ve ever encountered: this is sabotage liberalism.”
The entire thesis of the article hinges on this quote not being specious. Too bad for him.
What part of the argument is specious lol? What actual sabotage does he prescribe in the book is aimed at actual capital and not, like, some dude’s vehicle he uses to get to get to work?
You can just say you, along with some others on this site, have become emotionally attached to the book.
You're changing the subject. The accusation in the quoted text is not that Malm's prescribed actions are insufficiently militant, but that the aim is to appeal to the hearts and minds of the ownership class.
It seems like you were expecting Malm's book to be a manual for how to carry out sabotage and are disappointed that it's actually a discussion about different movements and conditions for destructive actions and why they were or weren't effective in their particular scope
The entire thesis of the article hinges on this quote not being specious. Too bad for him.
Pfft, k. Well answer this if you're so damn smart, leftie.
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What does specious mean?
:che-smile: has all the trappings of something that sounds correct but isn't actually correct
What part of the argument is specious lol? What actual sabotage does he prescribe in the book is aimed at actual capital and not, like, some dude’s vehicle he uses to get to get to work?
You can just say you, along with some others on this site, have become emotionally attached to the book.
You're changing the subject. The accusation in the quoted text is not that Malm's prescribed actions are insufficiently militant, but that the aim is to appeal to the hearts and minds of the ownership class.
It seems like you were expecting Malm's book to be a manual for how to carry out sabotage and are disappointed that it's actually a discussion about different movements and conditions for destructive actions and why they were or weren't effective in their particular scope