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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Marxist

'[...] They maintained their Marxist style of diagnosing problems in relation to root causes, internal logics and overarching structures.'

quoting Andrew Hartman in A War for the Soul of America on the neoconservatives of the 1930s, who started out as Trotskyist

—p.60 Chapter Four: Conservative culture wars from Buchanan to Yiannopoulos (54) missing author
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the co-opting of counterculture

[...] the most recent rise of the online right is evidence of the triumph of the identity politics of the right and of the co-opting (but nevertheless the triumph) of 60s left styles of transgression and counterculture. The libertinism, individualism, bourgeous bohemianism, postmodernism, irony and…

—p.57 Chapter Four: Conservative culture wars from Buchanan to Yiannopoulos (54) by Angela Nagle
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Milo as a classical liberal

The right-way style that Yiannopoulos embodied represents a marriage of the ironic, irreverent, taboo-busting culture of 4chan with the politics of the right; although, as his hard alt-right detractors often liked to point out, once you remove the 'trolling', many of his views amount to little more…

—p.56 Chapter Four: Conservative culture wars from Buchanan to Yiannopoulos (54) by Angela Nagle
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pugilistic

Buchanan's style was more pugilistic than most of the Republican mainstream was willing to risk

—p.56 Chapter Four: Conservative culture wars from Buchanan to Yiannopoulos (54) by Angela Nagle
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