From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 12:40:58 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > On Sunday, July 24, 2022 at 3:24:45 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 3:14:23 PM   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:37:01 PM   
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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?   
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   > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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"?   
   > > > > > What would "Domenico Losurdo" say, I wonder?   
   > > > > 7/13 Update: Not sure what I was talking about, here.   
   > > > Does anyone know what Domenico Losurdo would have said about it?   
   > > They say he died, though.   
   > Did anybody ever meet him?   
      
   "Of course they did."   
   Was this you, then?   
      
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