“An organization of revolutionaries who tried to think”
April 4, 2006I’ve been exploring blog-land lately, beginning with “Sketchy Thoughts” and “What in the Hell…”. Karl and Nate can be thought of as representing different under-examined aspects of my politics: Karl spends more time in the world of inter/nationalism and anti-imperialism than I have in recent years (he is sometimes less critical than I would like for him to be, although his recent post on Nepal was thoughtful and nuanced), while Nate seems like a vision of the person I could have become if I hadn’t turned my back on radical philosophy after I got my BA eleven years ago. Through the links on their sites, I have encountered a funny world of academics and academics-in-training, of reasonably smart Maoists and just-barely-still anarchists. Since I’m already a compulsive reader, this stuff has kept me busy for the last week or so, with no end in sight. It also has made me think that maintaining a blog would be one way to make myself read less and write more. Since I intend to write a book one of these days, I want to get back into form before diving in too deep. (more…)
