All Hegelian Podcasts Are Radlib Nonce-sense. AHPARN

It's obvious why these people are uninterested in talking about the alienation of workers, or why they whine about the "hypocrisy" of PMC people criticizing their own class. Academic Marxist philosophy is a glowie CIA funded program for fake-Marxists, they're not interested in having solidarity except with each other. These nerds are paid to ignore and mystify structural violence, why wouldn't they also ignore their role in doing violence? Its easier to instead whine about how oppressed they are by being called Karens and how frightened they are by "populist" rhetoric

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/liberals/lectureporn-the-vulgar-art-of-liberal-narcissism/

I turned this bullshit off half way, but apparently they talk about Marx's historical materialist take on jewishness? Which is ironic since these class traitors did not do any of that in the first part of the ep. These fucking idealist Hegelians rambling about Jews is probably literally the least valuable contribution to the discourse I can imagine lol

  • thrwdwnaway [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Probably the last good observation Terese had on what's left was when she did a deep dive into the origins of the online left and talked about when she was a normal DSA type person reaching out to the circles that had the Bruenigs, Matt, Amber, etc before things solidified into what we see now. The most interesting part of it was her talking about how it was all based around Gawker/Buzzfeed type media work and there was just no real coherent political project to it at the start. Instead of being a socialist effort that went online, it was more a type of left politics that evolved specifically for being able to control online spaces and defend online media. Dirtbag left media could flourish in a way normal jerkass media couldn't. It could wield a type of moral authority at a time in the Internet's history when otherwise clout just went to whoever was charismatic and well connected.

    It really clarified to a large extent why twitter and the whole podcast sphere is the way it is. It was also a sort of bittersweet thing because I think if she hadn't alienated so many people the information could have been more widely understood, but the alienation is the only reason she is able to share the things the rest of the circle doesn't want to acknowledge. You can put it together with Matt's observations on the demographics of left twitter along with its inability to engage the working class and Terese's observation is the unspoken key to why that is.