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hey i don't know if anyone has told you, but liberalism is soooooo 20th century

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everattaining replied to your post “@everattaining Re-reading Meillassoux right now I was reminded of you...”

wheres the best place to start?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7UgLoxVFEN4OXNDaHJlQmhqMWM

There’s a link to all the Meillassoux stuff I have, just so you can get it easily.

But I’d recommend starting with After Finitude and seeing if it still holds your interest after the first chapter (I know I was gripped when I read it). If that seems daunting or anything, I’d recommend his essay the Immanence of the World Beyond, which is kind of a re-presentation of his thoughts from After Finitude.

If you’re curious about the resurrection and Inexistent God stuff, then his essay The Spectral Dilemma would be a good place to go, along with the final chapter of Harman’s book on Meillassoux, Philosophy in the Making (included in the link above), which translates a large section of Meillassoux’s unpublished book where this all comes from called L’Inexistence Divine.

All the other stuff there is really good though, and I’d recommend it if any of these first sources pique your interest. Harman’s book might be a good starting place in general, since he does a (critical) overview of all of Meillassoux’s work, contrasting it with his own throughout to try and show what is worthwhile and speculative in Meillassoux’s thought.

You might also want to try listening to his lecture on Mallarme and Contingency, but I personally find his French accent a bit too thick for me to understand well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmcIF2etD4A

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everattaining replied to your post:

does habermas consider himself a liberal?

I’m not really sure, but I’ve always taken him for one based on my reading of him; his thought has never seemed to contradict the foundations of liberal democracy, and at many times has seemed to firmly support it. I may be wrong though, admittedly he’s someone who I need to familiarize myself with a lot more and one of the people on this list that I’m the least familiar with. I’ve just found everything of his I’ve read so far very useful.

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Could you reccomend some good liberal shills to read?

Beyond the my stated faves (Chomsky, Mill, Rousseau, Rawls), check out Gar Alperovitz, Dean Baker, Chip Berlet, Isaiah Berlin, Matt Bruenig, John K. Galbraith, Henry George, Jurgen Habermas, Leonard Hobhouse, Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, Charles W. Mills, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Paine, Barry Posen, Carlo Rosselli, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, James Tobin, Roberto Unger, Stephen Walt, and Cornel West.

I threw in a couple of names of people who are fundamentally liberal and yet critical of liberalism in there btw. I also threw in a couple good economists and international relations thinkers, for good measure.

Finally, Eduard Bernstein, Michael Harrington, Karl Polanyi, Michael Walzer, and Erik Olin Wright aren’t necessarily that liberal, but are close enough.

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Do you have an opinion abut the undeniable correlation between marxist blogs and premium content, and the equally undeniable correlation between liberal blogs and filth content?

the undeniable correlation

Alyson confirmed for belief in absolute truths, postmodernism destroyed, 35,000,000 dead

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Of course it bothers me there are now people literally taking screenshots of individual sentences of my posts to run some kind of smear campaign where I can't see it, but on the other hand. Imagine being some big gun on Edgy Leftist Tumblr, and seeing a post going around with a few statements you don't like, and getting a fit because how dare someone put that on your dash, this “fucker” with less than 400 followers as of today who said a few things that maybe LG people are complicit in biphobia and cissexism, how dare they! Gotta remind them who runs this class!

Time to have your say...without directly interacting with the person...because that would require actually checking their opinion and some other approach than “let's harass people in the community to make it safe, yeah that works out”...

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