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I've written a lengthy piece on how to understand market reforms under socialism while taking Marxism seriously and with Cuba as a case study, again for @CosmonautMag. Hope you like it!
Navigating the course between economic retreat driven by the necessities of survival and adherence to revolutionary principles through popular mobilization, Albert Gil (@LarryAlbertGil) examines the latest slate of Cuban economic reforms in the context of the Marxist revolutionary project.
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we need a ban on leftists reading too much German or Russian history. It’s getting to the point where it actually prevents ppl from thinking clearly about the actual present. it’s like American boomers and World War II.
The current results of the convention election don’t reflect the fact that SMC split into the Left-SMCs and the Right-SMCs, and the Left-SMCs support World to Winsheviks!
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I was born and raised in a whole different continent, I shouldn't know what "Cheesecake Factory" is
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The last real Ancien Régime life. Beautiful.
There was a chap at Oxford who came up in the 80s to research the 4 year tenure of a Yorkshire bishop. He spent 40 years on it, draining an inheritance left on condition it was spent on his education. Daily Mass (sometimes several times a day), lobster every day at Brown's next to the Oratory (hence the gout), magnificent dinner parties for miscreants, oddballs and grad students, and generous to charity. His fingers were so fat that his signet rings appeared stuck to them. Having spent every last penny, he was evicted from his apartment and became a monk some 3 years ago. No wife, no kids, and I don't think the DPhil ever got finished.
Top 5 most eccentric human beings I’ve met in my life. Bless him.
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Isn't it kinda crazy that Phoebe Waller-Bridge made one of the best shows of the century as her debut and then hasn't made anything else that is better than mid while enjoying all those fat cheques. Beast mode, imho.
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Sometimes I'm smart enough to buy a specific book but not enough to read it and even less to understand it.
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Do you ever see a social media post and say "yeah, this one will be used in so many history books to make a point"
To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.
The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
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Incredible detail about Chris Wickham from his Guardian obit theguardian.com/books/2026/oct…
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They say that if you read these two books back to back you open your third eye, you become able to summon Marx's ghost through proletarian black magic and he himself explains to you what "dialectical" means
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Simply remembering that we may never find the ruins of Akkad because it might be under Baghdad or that Napoleon died merely half a decade before the oldest surviving photograph is enough to ruin my day
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I swear this is not an attempt at a slopulist tweet, it's completely true and something I think about often because a certain spectre is haunting my brain
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