Jensen Suther
@jensensuther
Unironic believer in the Absolute. Marx in my heart; Hegel in my head. PhD @Yale. Junior Fellow @Harvard. True Materialism @StanfordPress.
Book jacket for True Materialism, out September 16 and available for pre-order now!
in Berlin for the next week, if any mutuals are around lmk!
10/ Lenin on America: “The history of modern, civilised America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars. The American people have a revolutionary tradition which has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat…
7/ From Marx’s letter to Lincoln: “From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The workingmen of Europe feel sure that…
1/ Happy July 4th, from the bourgeois revolution (thread): From the “anti-slavery” passage in Jefferson’s Declaration: “[King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people…
Joining @jensensuther for a discussion of the significance of Aristotle and Hegel in Marx's thought and Marxist theory/June 29 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 marxedproject.org/event/aristotl…
Join comrades at @project_marx for a book discussion titled "#Aristotle, #Hegel, #Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue" on great new books from @stanfordpress with @jensensuther and @Mblaz39 online on June 29th! RSVP: marxedproject.org/event/aristotl…
This from @jensensuther is really such a good piece. I recommend anyone with an interest in Rödl or McDowell, Pittsburgh/Chicago-world philosophy to read it. An open link, it seems, is here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/dash.harvard.edu/server/api/cor…
Biology, not physics, holds the key to reality The biosphere is not a clockwork mechanism but a self-creating, unpredictable system. Organisms constantly repurpose their worlds in ways that cannot be foreseen or captured in a mathematical framework. iai.tv/articles/biolo…
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The Marxist vision of emancipation requires two keys thoughts: (1) radical eudaimonism (RE) and (2) regrowth communism (RC). (1) RE consists in the adoption of rational, sharable standards or norms in which individuals find the condition for their *own* flourishing. 4/
Great thread on Marx, man and/with nature, and degrowth.
Saito’s reading remains fundamentally dualist: nature constitutes an external limit to human activity, a finite resource we have to treat with care. But Marx’s thought is different: we *are* nature and it is not an external limit but an *internal condition*. 9/