From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 3:14:23 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:37:01 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 1:08:17 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > > I think it's an "open question": Could you even seriously call yourself   
   a "communist" today? What would you mean by that?   
   > > >   
   > > > Jeffrey Rubard   
   > > The answer, *pace* Zizek and "Alain Badiou", is *no*: it's not a "way of   
   the world" as per 2022.   
   > > (Maybe Slavoj would automatically disagree with this, I don't know.)   
   > In other words, it's really *a thing you can't be*, perhaps to the point   
   that you might give up "imputing" it to people.   
      
   Perhaps there is one remaining "hypothesis" from that movement: Modern Russia   
   is in no way "communist".   
   (It is not even deeply influenced by Marxism relative to coeval states.)   
      
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