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the exaltation of SR as "the highest art form in history to date" is a folklorist position that loses the actual theoretical content of what socialist realism claimed to be. For Lifschitz and Lukács, SR's superiority over critical realism is specifically a superiority of method: its partidism is conscious, rooted in the Marxist-Leninist comprehension of historical development, where the partidism of a Balzac or a Tolstoy was spontaneous, conditioned by class position in ways its author could not fully theorize. This is a historically determinate claim about a historically determinate form, and it cannot be generalized into a transhistorical aesthetic hierarchy without losing precisely the content that made the claim. Lifschitz's own treatment of beauty as dialectically constituted (absolute beauty existing as an accumulation of non-absolute cases) makes this kind of absolutist elevation incoherent on its own terms, because it performs the fetishization of a particular that Lifschitz identified as the root of dogmatist and relativist aesthetic positions alike.

The quote tweet performs the standard ideological operation applied to Soviet theoretical production broadly, that SR was a sort of political imposition on an "authentic artistic life" that would have flourished in its absence, specifically by catering to the low intellectual capacities of the reactionary peasantry. This has the same structure as the dismissal of dialectical materialism as arid dogmatism that suppressed philosophical advances: in both cases an externally imposed political form is said to have suffocated an authentic content that preceded or existed beside it. The avant-garde occupies here the same position that "authentic Marxist philosophy" occupies in anti-diamat discourse, the repressed vitality that the party machine stifled. But Lifschitz's critique of abstraction was developed from within the theoretical premises of the reflection theory, in 1927 at the Vjutemás, which was the institutional center of Soviet vanguardism. Simply, there was a theoretical argument whose conclusions were unflattering to the abstractionist tendency. The claim that SR was anti-intellectual placation for peasants also contains a specific class contempt towards the peasantry that was coincidentally levied by Trotsky in his attacks against the USSR until his death. Aside from this, the claim assumes that formal accessibility is a concession to cognitive limitation, when it actually is an artistic reflection of the essential contradictions of an epoch made legible to the popular classes because those contradictions constitute their lived existence.

Feminism should include women who can’t give birth for whatever reason? Can’t have that, too inclusive of trans women.

AMAB folks are not inherently stronger/smarter/better in any way? Well we need something to cling to and use to insist trans women are different and dangerous!

It’s really fucking dire. I’ve seen TERFs insisting that actually the pink tax is good because it harms trans women. I’ve seen TERFs saying the Christian tradwife trend is “more feminist” than allowing trans women to exist. I’ve seen TERFs saying they’d rather go through all the worst parts of menopause than let trans women have easy access to estrogen and progesterone. Just relentlessly abysmal stuff.

we just happen to have the same tastes and like the same restaurants and cafés and watch the same shows and it's like a match made in heaven! i say the exact right thing at the perfect time and i just understand her so well, like nobody has before. how could i have known?!

"if you Crack an egg too early, it dies. If you notice one is having trouble hatching, but is clearly trying to, and do nothing, it'll die."

Tme's online: "What if you just let them be miserable and confused forever until they kill themselves I think that would be better"

After reading this comic yesterday, my wife responded with, “…bad girls are hot.”

Eyyyyyyyyyy

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There are many things going on politically that are frustrating, but something that I find even more frustrating is how telegraphed the trajectory we’re currently on was and continues to be.

Roughly two years ago, there was a family member that I outlined how exactly this was going to happen.  How certain minorities were going to be labeled as being intrinsically criminal, and how this would lay the groundwork for future atrocities.

I pointed to specific language in Project 2025; Republicans literally spelled out what they were planning to do in advance.

I was ignored.

I’m not sure what it takes to get our fence-sitting “allies” to care, they might never…