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Is love possible under capitalism?
Alexandra Kollontai is not interested in your bourgeois theories of love
Is love a universal emotion, or is it contingent on time, place, and social order? As with most questions, the answer depends a bit on how you define your terms.
It...
Communication is everything
The thesis of this post is so boring that it feels ridiculous to even bother writing it. But bear with me, because I think it’s actually important to say.
It’s this: communication is really important.
It’s not quite the case that anythi...
What I love about men
I read this very interesting essay by this weekend, and it left me thinking a lot of thoughts. The question is pretty simple: what do you love about men. But it’s one of those simple questions that turns out to be hard to answer:
Men ha...
Communicating through mismatched expectations
There are many ways to fail at communication. One of the simplest is the failure to calibrate expectations about the nature of an interaction. For example:
- Two people meet for a drink. One thinks they’re casual friends; the other think...
Why I want AOC to run in 2028
It’s March 2026, which means the time is ripe for 2028 Democratic primary speculation. Much of that speculation will take the form of prognostication (who is likely to win) and most of the rest tends to focus on negative intrapartisanship (...
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American living in Sweden. Political theorist. Beatles enthusiast.
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