Yeah I wish there was less substack going around… But this was a interesting read, putting this book on the “too read” list.

Anyone read this Geese Magazine the author’s are responding to? What’s the political outline there, took a quick glance on the front page and it seems a little squishy to me but I’m not sure what it’s about. Never heard of it before.

OK this pamphlet was an interesting read. In some ways it was something I already understood, but does provide a historical origin of American Left-Populism. I’ll probably want to go through and read some of the referenced material though, since the authors seldom quoted these references directly.

Their ultimate prognosis is that, due to the fracturing, atomization, and “lumpenizing” of the Proletariat in the imperial core, that much work needs to be done to build socialist (Marxist) institutions that can aid in the rebuilding and reconnecting of the Proletariat, so as to build a more substantial proletarian culture. One where we can take the grief and grievances of the atomized and direct them towards these institutions, instead of into the void of populism. That populism (both Left and Right) are reactionary, tailist, political theory’s that reject the core contradiction between wage labor and capital, and as a result limit the landscape of possibilities to that of existing liberal institutions and capitalist parties.

I’ll have to spend some time going back over each section and giving them a more careful read. I don’t know if I have a fully realized oppion on the writing.