Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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chiliastic

the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.

on the abolition of capital

—p.162 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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insuperable

the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful

—p.162 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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abjure

What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles

—p.149 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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lugubrious

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema

—p.147 On Oscar Movies (143) by A S Hamrah
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liminal

the wolf in this story is a liminal figure, an embodiment of some occult state in which binary conditions are impossibly, gruesomely conflated.

—p.119 League of Men (107) missing author
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