Comment by calf
3 years ago
I'm a Marxian leftist, but the one time I tried reading his essay I found it incomprehensible, ramblings of an ill person. It could've been about any topic, the style was redundant overconfident rambling.
So, I never cared for the overanalysis of this, the media obsession and spectacle is pretending he had anything comprehensible to say at all.
I.e., his ideas resonate for people who have not actually read leftist writing. Or maybe they resonate for accelerationists, tankies, and the like.
Couldn't agree more. Which makes sense, he only experienced life through books in near total isolation. You can't really provide anything of value about life or society that way, you're just stuck in your own mental projection of the world.
I’m not in the “he was right” camp but I don’t see how you can call it incomprehensible. It’s certainly not well-written, but it lacks the opaque prose that leftists especially are so fond of, and is easy enough to follow.
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