Game: Krasnacht, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4
Post title: New Ideology idea: Situationism. Born out of the ashes of the Second Weltkrieg, this semi-anarchist movement of avant-garde artists believes in socialist art as the only road to victory against the Bourgeois & Reactionary nations known as "The Spectacle"
What you're saying is actually closer to the Situationist critique of capital being able to recuperate all symbolic opposition to it, trapping everyone in a hall of mirrors without any political effects. There's a reason they didn't go into pop culture and instead just made avant-garde films, split from each other and drank a lot
I get that at one point these people really were avant-garde, but has there been any development on those ideas since then? I would argue that quite a few of those people are definitely part of pop culture even if they weren't 50-60 years ago. Doesn't that kind of prove that even the avant-garde gets swallowed by capital or do they think you must always move towards the boundaries and never let yourself get consumed?