From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 12:29:45 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > On Monday, April 25, 2022 at 5:53:11 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 1:11:42 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > > On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 2:22:15 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > > > On Monday, April 4, 2022 at 4:33:17 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > > > > > On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 10:38:04 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:14:28 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > > On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 10:51:17 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard   
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   > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 10:49:01 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey   
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   > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 3:43:31 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey   
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   > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 3:14:23 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:37:01 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > > 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.)   
   > > > > > > > > > Or do you think differently about any of this?   
   > > > > > > > > *Maybe you don't?*   
   > > > > > > > Not really. Why you probably think you see more "Wussian bearz"   
   than you do --   
   > > > > > > "Maybe they had some good ideas."   
   > > > > > > You know, I used to be that guy...   
   > > > > > ...but a lot of people actually lived in Warsaw Pact/Comecon   
   countries,   
   > > > > > and their memories of anything other than "ordinary life" (time with   
   friends)   
   > > > > > may really be more negative than they communicate.   
   > > > > Update: Kinda talking to myself here, I guess.   
   > > > But I really do think this; I'm not "jiving" you about it.   
   > > Roughly, I at one point would have claimed I was, in some sense, one of   
   these.   
   > > (Some other "social statuses"? Just can't quite "hit the notes"...)   
   > Or, were I to be lying, what *kind* of communist would I be?   
   > "Really not, but you get the idea..." Staple stuff like that, ese.   
      
   ...or really, what would one *be at all*? Don't you with "anti-communist" just   
   issue yourself   
   a blank check for "venting one's spleen"?   
      
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