“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
It's not a dialectical opinion anyway. Material conditions are basal, and shape ideology and culture and art, but the way people shape those within the conditions is what changes the material conditions.
Or you know, there'd be no point to being a communist, it'd either be inevitable or impossible.
Of course art can be a vehicle for ideas and change!
Yes! But I think the usual pushback comes from conflict with libs that start from the extreme opposite end of the argument and who believe no organization, no theory is necessary, all you need is CIVIL DISCOURSE, throw in some controversial piece of art and then go on to unironically believe that alone is enough to change people's mind or even leave a lasting impression, you know in complete contradiction with the treat based society where any media older than 6-18 months is "ancient" and therefore irrelevant.
TL;DR leftist art is sometimes appropriated by shit libs with civil discourse syndrome and that sometimes leads to bad argumentation etc.
Another Ursula K. LeGuin banger:
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can't be a communist unless you're hitting something with a big hammer 20 hours a day
or using a sickle that's why they are both in the flag it's prescriptive
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Probably just STEM-brains. I just ignore them.
It's not a dialectical opinion anyway. Material conditions are basal, and shape ideology and culture and art, but the way people shape those within the conditions is what changes the material conditions.
Or you know, there'd be no point to being a communist, it'd either be inevitable or impossible.
Yes! But I think the usual pushback comes from conflict with libs that start from the extreme opposite end of the argument and who believe no organization, no theory is necessary, all you need is CIVIL DISCOURSE, throw in some controversial piece of art and then go on to unironically believe that alone is enough to change people's mind or even leave a lasting impression, you know in complete contradiction with the treat based society where any media older than 6-18 months is "ancient" and therefore irrelevant.
TL;DR leftist art is sometimes appropriated by shit libs with civil discourse syndrome and that sometimes leads to bad argumentation etc.
That's the beauty of the MCU. It fetishizes the status quo and throws cascading fistfuls of slop so milquetoast that it redefines art.