debatable where to put it, in history or theory, but this kinda big article covers 20th century left development and later de-development (invelopment ™), through the hegelian prism (or what i see as such), but it’s an interesting and wide-spanning view if sometimes rich on the “critique of all there is” vibes. CW: (mentions of sa/homophobia/transphobia)
(i put it in hegelian category, cause while there is lot of object/subject thingies (largely cause it’s what new left theory was doing, but in any case, non-economical) the details of issues are never elucidated through material lense. workers revolted - which workers? what did they do? what percentage of workers? students protested - which students and why? women protested - again, which women and why? soviet supported the maintenance of the union - funny, cause previous text would lead one to believe there were no redeeming qualities there etc - but also function of the span of the text)
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What we call in the leftist biz - a short theory thread 🧵
But for real it picks up somewhere after first third, where author waxing poetic about some shit shifts into history (if shallow) gear of movements on the left; due to global span it mentions some resonances of struggles throughout the world, which is sometimes missing in more local/national shorter pieces. Black panther party was not solely product of black struggle, but also reverberations of decolonization/maoism/palestine later, and everything is sort of connected in that way, just as feminism was or lgbt struggles, and author tries to cram it all in one article, which is admirable
