Eldritch

HOLY SHIT THEY GOT VIRGINIA GIUFFRE

There goes another major loose end in that grotesque and mind shattering saga.

Hello comrades, Hope everyone is doing well. I'd like your feedback on something that just came up!

Firstly, as this community applies as a whole, I try not to be sectarian towards different leftist tendencies, even though I identify as a marxist-leninist, broadly speaking. I try not to critique by using old clichés and I also make a big effort to stay constructive in the spirit of left-unity (a principle that has its limits, I recognise it)

I respect my trostyists, anarchist, syndicalist, trade-unionist, maoist comrades, as long as you're democratic socialist or left, we can have constructive conversations and I will treat you as a comrade.

I am about to start a masters degree in political science under a marxist professor (the only one in a department of 18+ professors ) and I was talking to him about Losurdo's works, some of which have been recently translated. He then told me, with a straight face: "I don't really like Losurdo because he wrote a book about Stalin". Kind of took me off guard coming from an openly marxist professor, but I think the trot tendency in the west is overwhelming. So contesting the epistemological framework of capitalist societies that even we, as marxists, have to deal with, is met with the same zealotry that any other capitalist institutions. I'm kind of saddened to see the person who will supervise me take this attitude towards a form of (non-bourgeois) knowledge and straight-up dismiss it without consideration (he admitted not having read Losurdo, except for his counter-history of Liberalism, which I respect nonetheless.)

I've not yet exactly decided my topic of research, but I'm afraid that this might cause some frictions in our professional relation? Of course, it is totally possible to work with other types of leftist tendencies, but seeing the close-mindedness and immediate negation of the opinion of an italian marxist on the topic of Stalin who, I admit, is a polarizing figure, makes me kind of uncertain about this. Worst thing is, I know my professor's mentor, and he is much redder and favorable to AES (which my current teacher disregards in bulk) Makes me think of the concept of "Imperial Marxism" that gives you a material understanding of capital, but still condemns as immoral and authoritarian any attemps to get out of it. When you're met with arguments against the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam or Korea, the rhetoric you're met with is indiscernable from pentagon schills.

TLDR: Master's degree teacher has sectarian trot tendencies. Advices on how to proceed to avoid friction?

Hi all, hoping you're having a good day.

I'm currently towards the end of my undergrad journey in philosophy and I'm moving towards a masters in political science. It's kind of difficult to find professors that are interested in this thing of ours, but I managed to survive in that ideologically hostile environment. I'm currently on a commission to review the undergrad program and I'm sitting on the board with both professors and some studen colleagues of mine. We had our third encounter this past week and I've been confronted with a personnal dilemma that I wanted to ask the community about.

Since I'm mostly a masc, cishet presenting guy, I try to be careful in spaces that are meant to be safe for people who want to study and do their own thing. Gender/race/decolonial studies are very popular topics inside of the department where I study, but it's also firmly ideologically commited to the analytic tradition of the anglo-saxon world and as such, it's extremely liberal. We don't even have a course on Marx or any authors that are of the marxist tradition. The board mainly wants to introduce more diversity in the course offers, and I'm all for that, but of all the intersting women authors, she proposed Hannah Arendt. I've been kind of shocked by that proposal since Arendt isn't exactly a feminist or a leftist, it feels like they did the meme. I decided to say something and I said that it's important to note the contribution of the marxist tradition in the feminist struggle. I said that the Venn Diagram between feminists and marxists overlaps in kind of a big way and I made a point that tokenising diversity while ignoring the overarching ideology that made these movements successful is not a good approach. I got a weird reaction and it kind of reaffirmed a lot of what I've felt in terms of ideological alienation inside of that department.

So yeah, I'd like some feedback from the community. Since this department is very into feminist theory and has all types of radfems that vary in terms of political allegence, it's hard to bring up such things. I've picked up some hostile vibes from two of the women inside that board since then and it's not the first time that my leftist speeches kind of throw off women when they feel I'm mansplaning or something. I can totally understand women wanting spaces and being so-fucking-tired of dumbass trash men. Y'all go full volcel and queen off I support you 100%. But like, can we also stop ignoring history and the immense contribution of the leftist project to feminist emancipation? This is the education we give forward to the next generation and I'm not sure more racist-warlike-women in philosophy is exactly the thing that will solve those inequalities they pretend to care so much about.

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I've been staying at the same place for about 5 years. Initially he had a plan to build a new block next to mine and he made us sign a paper which says we are to leave when the works start.

Fast forward a couple years, nothing is done still and I'm tired to wait every year to know where I'll be living long term, so I go and ask questions at the government's tenants protection desk and they end up telling me the paper is not valid at all, that I can keep my lease after the works etc, so I told my landlord I wished to stay and he went full victim mode.

Arguing with landlords who only mention the market and how they're such nice folks for not evicting you during a global pandemic while you're trying to make them understand for a tiny second the concept of housing insecurity is draining. This pos has 26 tenants in multiple homes and is guilt tripping me because "I'm going back on my word" , which was given years ago in a different economic context.

Most likely will resolve this without having to go to court, because I'd most likely win buy I dont want this asshole to stalk me and find ways to evict me over the years. I'll have to accept an arbitrary increase in rent to shut him the hell up and plenty of other shit I'm entitled to by law but don't have the energy to fight for atm in my life. I hate this system and the west so much, Mao give me strength.