The more intellectual and theoretical books on politics are interesting and fun because they are weird and frightening to the minds of the extremely partisan. Even hearing their arguments is scary to some people, because they never seem to fit neatly into a right or left dichotomy that some people comfortably believe in in a neo-Manichaean way, even when the author's individual viewpoints are made apparent throughout the text.
Am I retarded Veeky Forums?
That's exactly the purpose of all this bullshit: exploitation & replacing any class consciousness with a race war and a sex war, in order to divert political thought and action away from the usual suspects.
Besides, Porky needs to sell some books and its online newspaper needs some pageviews.
>marxist groups in sociology and gender studies departments
wew lad so relevant
>Nigel the Fercuckson.
if you mean niall ferguson idk why he makes so many people butthurt
probably because he defends empire
This shill
The manifesto is pretty readable. You're probably just a retard
Probably because he gets under the skin of leftists and conspiracy theorists.
Because he uses (or rather twists and manipulates) History to forward an specific agenda. He's literally an old style propagandist with 21st century tools.
I can't even understand how this pathetic joke of a historian gets so much tv and media exposure. Well, yeah, I do...
and? there are tons of academics who do this
>w-w-e are not relevant at all, we just get to define what will become the acceptable public discourse in the next decades, while our bourgeois enemies are always behind us and receiving from us their own morality
>i mean, it's not like having total control over the institutions where everyone who matters go at their most influentiable phase to be educated is having power
>if we don't have absolute political, economical, social and cultural power, if we still have to compete with other groups, then we are not relevant at all, because we are only satisfied with total power