hell is full of good intentions, and no criticism in this book is new, so i'm left with the book's form, that is, what its "performative" intention is: cringy lefter than thou content. i'm very skeptic of left criticizing left when it's indistinguishable from right wing talking points. also not sure if calling fellow militants hobbyists is actually... inviting for other people to fight with you? it makes you sound judgemental and unable to constructively criticize things. i can understand the criticisms but i don't think how they're conveyed is very... politically wise. if we apply the criticisms he makes to hobbyists and PeRfOrMaTiVe RaDiCalS to the author himself and consider writing a book full of right-wing talking points to sell books as PERFORMATIVE RADICALISM i think not much is left, the message is self-contradicted. but maybe i'm missing context again. much of what he says is really important, but not new. so i'm not sure writing a book phrasing thing as.. ahem controversially as in this one is actually helpful. it's funny because it's the second book in a row i read that is left-wing but sounds strangely right-wingey. maybe i'm seeing things? dropping this for now.