The Politics of Luigi Mangione: Emancipation or Spectacle?

[@christianlesniak]

I totally agree with Helen. I'm open to there being a universality, which is visible in the way the right seems to 'get' why Luigi killed the guy and not just the left. Maybe a process of continuously saying 'no, not that' to limp attempts to make small capitulations to stuff like, 'how about we instead of 90% rejection rate, we use an AI that has an 85% rejection rate?' could make something more durable out of this. Him being a tech-bro is fine, and we need to insist on the universality of his grievance. Imperfect vessels for universal messages, and all that.... I also like her brief critique of the term "elite". When I hear leftists insist on terms like "elite", "PMC", "luxury beliefs", I see a reactionary turning away from universality (often used as weird terms of nihilistic self-flagellation).

[@RahulSam]

Well put. I highly recommend the book, which, in straightforward yet sharp language, makes a case for leftist universalism and not getting stuck in (sometimes self-flagellating) endless particularisms.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

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