Author: jonwuka
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Deleuze, Nietzsche, and a New Drive
Why do I want to do this? I have said this before, too. It’s because these ideas are conservative ideas. They are the conservative justifications for their political agenda. As such, they have no value for those who want real justice.
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Why Democrats Blame the Victim
Why is it that Democrats, especially online, blame Muslims and trans people and their supporters for Harris’s loss?
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Why Normal People Often Don’t Fight Fascism
It’s not as simple as “they’re secret fascists”
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Commentary: Historia Civilis – The July Revolution (1820 to 1830)
Historia Civilis just put out a new video on the July Revolution in France. I always look forward to Historia Civilis videos and this one immediately got me thinking about the role of legislature and the possibility of revolution.
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Why the Democrats Will Never Love You
Luxury is a game of pretend, that’s why it isn’t joy. It’s a person looking over at the heap of vegetables that have been harvested and smiling while pretending they don’t see the army of slaves behind it. Joy is knowing that no one suffered to produce what you have, no one was ignored, because…
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Protest and the Construction of Power
The surest sign that a protest is effective is if the military opens fire on it. I want to explain why this is. Of course, I’m considering both “protest” and “effective” in a narrow sense here but I think the general point is understandable on its face: as a challenge to the government, a protest’s…
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Thoughts on the Critique of the Gotha Programme
I wanted to talk about the Critique of the Gotha Programme because I feel it has relevance to our current situation where the left is in the political wilderness. The Gotha Programme’s aims, in the eyes of Marx, were to sand down the edges of the socialist movement such that it would not seem so…
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What Is Religion
In this bias I am going to lay out my general approach to religion and parareligion (or “secular religion”), mostly as a base to build off of in future articles. I want to establish a general framework that can be used to analyze religions and similar philosophical structures in a comparative way. I’ve always been…
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The Romans Had Religion
This will be another hypothesis blog. I’ve done a few of them already, but basically, I’m going to lay out some ideas that I want to follow up on later, especially through research. For this subject I’ve already been pointed to a book that should be really useful — Belief and Cult by Jacob L.…