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Christopher F. Rufo's avatar

This seems directionally correct. I'm assuming you mean that the Marxist political movements never shed their bourgeois origins—and now refuse to shed even their bourgeois desires. This is one of the great lessons from Del Noce.

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Tommaso di Maria's avatar

Marx did try to suppress Bourgeois Radicalism - which predates him; his comments on Stirner and other "Left-Hegelians" are brutal. What he offered - Dialectical Materialism - failed objectively (by his standards). "Mystifications" of "Right" and "Left" ideologists aside (both have a stake in propping-up Marx's corpse and many outright don't understand and/or are sentimentalists), the "Left" has returned to its Bourgeois Radical roots. Of course, some never left those roots - as Marx and both Communists and Fascists never tired of observing.

At this point, the Left IS Bourgeois Radicalism - which in-reality means a kind of universal bureaucratic administrative/economic state dedicated to "physical an emotional 'well-being.'" That is, a kind of (gated) Bourgeois Disneyland.

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Tommaso di Maria's avatar

This much said, "Intersectionality" has opened a grotesque, perverse, laughable and repulsive complication - as your recent Twitter post of the Judith Butler talk attests. Your typical B.R. aspirant - say Ta-Nehisi Coates - both aspires to Bourgeois Disneyland and advocates murder.

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