• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    This is the same exact viewpoint I've heard college educated types express in regards to Marxism over and over. Like a "Marx's works are really interesting, but Marxists are the worst. I'd hate to be like them. Anyway I'm a Foucaultian epistemological positivist with influence from blah blah blah academic jargon."

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Isn't it funny how all these people have all these super important and super complex worldviews which are so extremely cultivated and worked out and yet they never translate to anything in the real world?

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's just really funny how two of them could debate with each other about society and political theory all day long, even though functionally they're exactly the same and only wake up once every 4 years to vote for the same person. At best they may write a woke take on some popular movie or something. What better way to showcase how impotent these currents of thought are if not at the very least combined with marxist analysis and communist praxis?

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      well yeah of course. when your most deeply ingrained value is just commodity fetishism, every aspect of one's personhood becomes available for commodification. your beliefs are just something you consume as part of the spectacle or whatnot.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeeeeup. Worked with a dude getting his philosophy masters and the goal is basically to be not wrong but also totally useless.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's a defense mechanism when people are confronted with views they know are right but for whatever reason can't accept them (see how a lot of people respond to veganism by saying that vegans are just the worst, it absolves you from confronting what the vegans are actually saying).

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They hate Marx because he realized the implications of his theory and was like "bruh, we need to simplify this so any prole can read about it during their breaks. This shit is fucked." which led to real world revolutions with "tainted" versions of his theory.

      It's way easier to be an ultra and play with imaginary trainsets that never leave the hypothetical than to make that transition from FM to AM.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Bourgeois ideology runs through them still, yet they grew enough awareness to pretend they shouldn't express it as openly as they did before they were made aware.