At several points while reading the article, I was inclined to excerpt a sentence or two and frame that in my comment on your essay, but by the end there were just too many lines I wanted to highlight (Medium’s feature in this respect, I think, should be duplicated) for praise. I will say this: you’re very possibly the best writer of Marxist disposition on this platform, and it’s a shame that you aren’t read as much as the supernaturally insufferable Freddie DeBoer (and he as little as you).
I suppose if I had to highlight just one passage, it’d be this:
“Facebook is not your dad. Facebook is not a single person, nor is it a political movement. Legally speaking, Facebook has one interest in mind, and that is to deliver as much revenue as possible for its shareholders. As I wrote about many, many years ago, capitalism already has its own system of incentives built into it. To argue we can infuse it with a ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ spirit presupposes that it even has a soul in the first place.”
At several points while reading the article, I was inclined to excerpt a sentence or two and frame that in my comment on your essay, but by the end there were just too many lines I wanted to highlight (Medium’s feature in this respect, I think, should be duplicated) for praise. I will say this: you’re very possibly the best writer of Marxist disposition on this platform, and it’s a shame that you aren’t read as much as the supernaturally insufferable Freddie DeBoer (and he as little as you).
I suppose if I had to highlight just one passage, it’d be this:
“Facebook is not your dad. Facebook is not a single person, nor is it a political movement. Legally speaking, Facebook has one interest in mind, and that is to deliver as much revenue as possible for its shareholders. As I wrote about many, many years ago, capitalism already has its own system of incentives built into it. To argue we can infuse it with a ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ spirit presupposes that it even has a soul in the first place.”
Much better than Hanania’s crying, I think.