#Marx
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Stalinism, Luxemburg, and the Frankfurt School's blind spot
Luxemburg's 'socialism or barbarism' is wrong because Stalinism was both at once — a lesson the Frankfurt School, fixated on Western fascism, never processed.
We don't know where we are: no hologram for the present
Today we lack the kind of totalizing hologram that capitalism retroactively imposed on all prior history once it contingently emerged. We are in the interval.
Marx on Balzac: intelligent conservatives see the deadlocks
Žižek's dreamed coalition: renewed left plus intelligent — not reactionary — conservatives, the Balzac type who see the deadlocks and know there is no easy way out.
Marx's communism: capitalism without capital
Marx's communism kept capitalism's engine of ceaseless expanded reproduction while removing only surplus value — ecologically incoherent.