![]() I mean, don’t pay for it, definitely don’t make it the only place you get your news, and go in knowing the perspective and biases you’ll get (but that’s true of everything), but still, if you just cut out the op-eds sight unseen it’s still probably above-average. To be clear, this is a terrible idea in terms of general quality of life, but also legitimately the best way to stay agonizingly up to date on American news and journalism.īut honestly the New York Times isn’t, like, a bad choice. (as this is also the natural habitat of journalists and political operatives for some reason, it will also give you much educational context and additional information you’ll very quickly grow to resent wasting neurons on). On the opposite end of the spectrum - don’t chain yourself to a single paper! Just follow a nontrivial percentage of currently working American journalists on twitter! Every piece even mildly relevant to the National Conversation will be linked ad nauseum. The cliches about local politics being the most immediately consequential to your life AND the most amenable to actual effort on your part to change are entirely true! (In my case this is a daily online newsletter run to by a grumpy old communist which brings in enough subscriptions to pay a reporter to attend every city council meeting and a couple others to do investigative work). To be boring and unhelpful - first and foremost the answer is whatever the best local paper you have available. ![]() reply anon political theory it's 2am and i'm rambling in this essay I will So a useful lens to analyze conflicts, certainly, but if you try to use 'left’ and 'right’ to describe it you’ll be a bit confused at the political valence of wildcat strikes and peasant revolts on one hand, and international capital and the military-industrial complex on the other.Īnyway mass politics are almost always organized by and mediating institutions that are (to varying degrees) basically invariably dominated by the middle and upper classes - creating a mass organization of the peasantry or working class is hard, operating an effective organization without its own class of functionaries or notables is something like impossible. Like they did all the other leftists they got their hands on. Which is a bit awkward, because that is absolute a major (sometimes the major) and recurring conflict you see across the globe and with the centralizing officials professing basically every ideology under the sun to justify themselves, but if you try to apply that consistently you end up saying that the hardliners and technicos in Brazil’s late military dictatorship were secretly leftists all along, which is something they would literally shoot you for. One usually consists of professional and functionaries, the other landlords and rentiers and military elites.īut also, I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you, but ‘the left-right conflict is actually just a power struggle between centralizing officials and professionals against the traditional gentry and patrician elite’ is probably one of the oldest takes out there. ![]() ![]() Okay so first, to be an insufferable pedant, neither the intelligentsia nor the aristocracy are bourgeois, traditionally. ![]()
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