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What an ass (horowitz, not you).
Well, I am too, probably.
Yeah, but you're OUR ass.
How is a Neo-Bolshevist different than a Trotskyite, or a fellow traveler? No matter how you slice it, looks like your five year plan is coming to fruition. Next stop, Minister of Fear and Whiskey.
Corndog, a Trotskyist rejects the "Socialism in one country" strategy. By way of contrast, a Neo-Bolshevist recognizes that all so-called "countries" are merely part of the Matrix, and rejects accomodationist elements in the Zion People's Revolutionary Councils.
What a well-informed response. What are you doing in this sinkhole?
It's well-informed, Alex, but mistaken. Don't forget the lesson of Matrix: Revolutions-- "Neo-Bolshevism" rejects compromise with the Zion People's Revolutionary Councils only to sell us out by making a separate peace with the machines in the end, preserving the Matrix on a "purely voluntary" basis. Don't go down that road, Neo-- you've been there before, you know where it ends.
I just thought I'd get here early for Sinkhole de Mayo.
The esteemed Professor Bérubé ignores, to my deep surprise, the dynamic of compromise with the Machine currently operant in Hollywood. (Mistaken? Harrumpph. Was Bakunin mistaken when he rejected Marx's long march through the Parliaments strategy in favor of a violent decentralized uprising of the proletarians? Was Chiang Ching mistaken when she espoused (heh) Mao Thought during the Cultural Revolution? Was Shay mistaken when he rode off into the wilds of Massachusetts to rebel on his one horse? Yes, all three were probably mistaken to some degree. But that doesn't mean I am.)
Put succinctly: The Matrix was the revolutionary, Ward Churchill-like thesis. Reloaded gets in the way of the metaphr, so I will ignore it. Which makes Revolutions the compromised, liberal synthesis. It thus perfectly expresses the current accomodationist, Neo-Hegelian Societal Joementum.
You and Berube must secretly be paying-off Horowitz for the publicity. OK, I'm just envious, having not rated a mention myself. Boo hoo.
You're all wrong, and you're all just figments of my imagination -- and I'm just a brain in a vat.
So there.
Now pardon me, my electrolytes are a little low.
I leave for three hours and that punk Berube invites the whole damn Shadow Party over to track puns all over my sinkhole (and I just got it looking the way I like it!)
All right, let me settle this: a neo-Bolshevist is one who, while embracing a modified version of Marx's False Consciousness theory (by applying it not to the proletariat, but to all humans enslaved by aliens), also wears a lot of designer leather jackets (either a rejection or an embrace of the commodity fetishism theory -- I can't remember which, but I'm sure Harry Belafonte will remind me next time I see him).
Puns want to be free!
Man, is Chris Clarke inspired or what. Sinkhole de Mayo was the pun of the week! But the guy who spoke of the long march through the institutions was not Marx! The author of that statement was later unveiled as a hoax, a figment of Karl Kautsky's imagination. The latter, of course, turned out to be no Bolshevist at all, but a spy sent over by the Matrix headquarters. Nice blog indeed, congrats.
Idelber is correct about Marx. I was speaking metaphorically about a metaphor: sort of a meta-metaphorical thing.
Also, I don't know for sure that Shay had only one horse.
Chiang Ching did espouse Mao, however.
Can I get a "Peace! Land! Bread! Blogs!" T-shirt? Or would the act of buying such a thing be such a self-negating oxymoron that I would cease to exist?
corndog -- as long as Che Guevara's copyrighted image is sold by the truckload for $15 at Urban Outfitters across the nation with no evidence of unintentional irony-holes sucking mall punks into nonexistence, there is no t-shirt mindbogglingly self-contradictory enough to cause any sort of real damage, except to the fragile psyches of those with a sense of shame.
Also, much as the second two Matrix movies made the first one seem flukey and retroactively stupider, Lenin's "State and Revolution" totally ruined "What is to Be Done?" for me.
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