Nathan Robinson most vindicated man alive

nathan j robinson fired a bunch of staff at current affairs mag for trying to organize a workers co op so you'll forgive me if i disagree with 'most vindicated man alive' on principle

I wish I could find his response to this 'cause it was stronger than I thought. Most of those writers are as bad if not worse than him politically and want control over something that was mostly his work and already run fairly horizontally.
Edit: found it here: https://yasminnair.com/march-what-really-happened-at-current-affairs/
- What happened at Current Affairs is not the story of a malevolent overlord oppressing his minions but a much more mundane one about the inevitable fate that befalls too many left institutions: the magazine was overtaken by what Jo Freeman has termed “The Tyranny of Structurelessness.” This is the mistaken idea that informal structures with ill-defined positions are more truly radical and leftist than those with systems of accountability.
  This was my impression as the story unfolded, and I've seen similar things in lots of other small groups that take on big projects. At some point you have to grow out of the ad hoc stage, and that can cause issues between folks who have contributed to different degrees.
- So basically, the staff's story was that they were all fired for trying to organize, when in reality they were not fired and they were not trying to organize.
  honestly stunning.
- I remember reading that and my main takeaway was that it's a buddy of Nathan's that lacks a lot of actual knowledge and substance and relies heavily on tone and innuendo.
Nope, not what happened, he's already been vindicated for it. Most vindicated man alive.
- PROOF: https://yasminnair.com/march-what-really-happened-at-current-affairs/
https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
- It's me. I hate boomers and boomer culture. Fuck john lemon beetles songs sucked.
Same. Current Affairs was one of my go-to publications back in the day and now I don’t even visit it. Grifter ass britisher wannabe.
- Wrong, he's super vindicated, most vindicated man alive
  I hate Robinson's weak tea ass ideas of "socialism" but I find the case here incredibly convincing, he did nothing wrong
- Same. I now file him under “compatible left” along with Chomsky and most of the New Left/Frankfurt School.

The thing is that the relentless trolling campaign against Oz was good (meaning effective) politics in Pennsylvania. It's a shame that it was used to elect a Zionist.

i think the charitable reading is that NJR doesn't think that fetterman's racist schlub routine is scalable and or motivating/leading a progressive movement, and he's certainly being proven right on that.
- I definitely agree that his visual presentation would be a liability in most other states. But looking put together is not incompatible with the dirtbag shitposting strategy his campaign pulled off well.
Yeah. Robinson was wrong to say it was bad electoral strategy.

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

Sorry, but I do.

Yes, a man who hates Marx and Marxism is the most "vindicated" man alive. Dude writes articles that are sometimes good, that's it. lol

Take a look through the rest of the thread -- the guy is the poster child for why we should actually investigate smears like "he hates Marx" instead of taking them at face value.
I say in Why You Should Be A Socialist that [Marx] had “a better understanding than almost anyone else of the way that economics determines the fabric of the social world,” and praise texts of his as “brilliant” and “profound,” full of “great insight.” I am not sure how that can be squared with thinking I have scant regard for him.
His issue with Marxism (in addition to anarchist critiques of it and the broader ML tradition) is basically that some Marxists are dogmatic almost to a religious degree, and can condescend to people who haven't read Das Kapital in its entirety.
- He’s never going to be accepted by most people here, I think, simply because of his stance on AES (“atrocities of communist regimes” and “Stalin will never be redeemable, Stalin is socialism’s worst enemy”).
- dogmatic almost to a religious degree,
  "Does anyone else think Darwinian evolution is a cult?" same energy
  condescend to people who haven't read Das Kapital in its entirety.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppose_Book_Worship
  Mao's frequent slogan "no investigation, no right to speak" is a theme throughout the essay
  Mao: "SHUT THE FUCK UP RADLIBS LOL"
- Yeah but that's not any real kind of refutation and not worth disregarding the hard fought for victories that Marxists have been able to achieve across the globe, a claim like that can be levied against any sufficiently motivated group. Someone considering themselves a leftist and refusing to engage with it's most expansive and liberatory history and theory calls into question the use of even calling people "leftists" in the first place, what's even the point?

Sucks to find out what happened with him. I remember his Jordan Peterson write-up being one of the better takedowns that I could actually show to liberals. Breadtube videos were too weird for them.

fauntleroy-on-the-bayou taking a rare W

common W for our dandy-king
- He’s not a Marxist and he would throw you over the bridge

His F Scott Fitzgerald schtick is simultaneously cringe and compelling

I mistakenly thought he was a total lib from skimming Twitter discourse but always figured he’s an ok guy bc he seems to be amused by one of those niche micro left accounts “impersonating” him

He is maybe somewhat more radical than a succdem at best. I just think it's pretty funny when he's right, or at least when he winds up looking good in hindsight.
- Didnt't he get really mad about his writers trying to unionize a few years back or am I confusing him with someone else?
Nah he’s a total Jacobin lib. One correct take on a Democrat isn’t sufficient to make them correct