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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Benedict Cryptofash

As always, excellent and penetrating analysis. I envy your ability to see through the fog and capture the essence of these various movements and publications.

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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Benedict Cryptofash

Great points have been made.

Notice how places like Compact and Sublation's main selling point is only scratching the surface of what the dissident right talks about every day (Covid, lab leak, transgenderism, etc.)

Everything the left had was exhausted in 2020 with Bernie. Now many of their ideas have been adopted or have become antiquated.

I think it's time for the whole of the left (dirtbag or not) to call themselves democrats. This has already been illustrated by Aimee and yourself so there is no point in beating a dead democrat horse.

The right still has Trump who at least either directly or indirectly posed a threat to the state, so much so that every state institution was used to silence him in 2020.

What can the left say about Bernie outside of some DNC careerist woman saying privately in emails that she prefers her girl boss friend Hillary?

And now Bernie is indistinguishable from the rest of the Democratic party.

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Benedict Cryptofash

Every one of these publications & the tribes circling them come from the same general educated, middle-class base. The left, the post-left, the dissident right, the dissident left, the progressive liberals, the populist right, the not left not right but very loud populists...they all reproduce the exact same dynamics. Which a materialist could predict from the onset but between ignorance, idealism & a self-serving hustle, these socioeconomic realities get mystified under various shallow brands designed to briefly compel a consumer base.

We're seeing it with Ukraine, Chris Hedges bloviating about the need for the left & right to unite & stop nuclear war. His argument lies in the ideological tribes of this middle-class audience because material politics and the class conflicts that could emerge from them are absent. It's just podcasters & other professional windbags taking whatever position can pay their bills and pretending that they've cracked some kind of code to produce socialism or peace or Epic Based Nationalism or populism or the eradication of the Cathedral or blah blah blah blah blah.

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Well said and sad.

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Benedict Cryptofag

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