Enter the radical

I now join the chorus welcoming Comrade Calderon to the ranks. I think we've got several important flavors of far-left represented on blogger now:

1. The latin american Maoist.
2. The stratospherically intelligent academic activist Western Marxist.
3. And, me. The dopey good-natured social democrat.
4. Our friend Camille needs to get a blog so that we can have a Trotskyite on the list.

On an unrelated note, here's a familiar pattern: Insomnia, caffeine, dehydration, alcohol. Repeat. Somewhere in there try to read a lot of books and write a lot of responses.

Tomorrow evening I'm joining a group of humanities types to discuss part of the new book by Benedict Anderson, author of the seminal Imagined Communities. I understand that it's the capitalism/anti-capitalism reading group (meeting at the Irish republican pub, appropriately.) It'll be interesting. I can do gender, because gender seems to me to be obvious. Capitalism is hard, because it's so fucking complicated.

I will carry the legacy of this guy with me so that I can feel like I know what I'm talking about.