Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo’s work as “a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states […]”
Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo’s work as “a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states […]”
You call it “comical hotdogging” when someone expresses rage, fear, or disgust at the state of political repression in a world where every faction in power, liberal, fascist, or nominally socialist, is tightening the screws. But when your side waxes poetic about “the historical necessity of the vanguard,” or excuses every betrayal of proletarian power as “dialectics,” suddenly that’s rigorous political theory?
Maybe you mistake intensity for performance because you’re so used to Marxism as posture, a kind of grim cosplay of seriousness, where anything outside the approved aesthetics of your tendency is just “hotdogging.”
The funny thing is, the article you’re commenting under? Ross Wolfe is a Western Marxist. He’s critiquing Losurdo precisely for turning Marxism into a theological justification for authoritarian statecraft. But instead of engaging with that, you fall back on vibes: “lol western Marxists always be hotdogging.”
Hot take: maybe what looks like “hotdogging” to you is just refusing to smile while licking the boot.
Cool anime villain speech I didn’t ask about all that tho. I know that dude is a western Marxist, I don’t know what’s funny about it, seems to me you don’t really know what you’re talking about and are being edgy for the sake of edge.