All this talk about “the liberal communists Bill Gates and George Soros” and how “the neoliberals are now more leninist than the Leninists” is getting increasingly :sus:
All this talk about “the liberal communists Bill Gates and George Soros” and how “the neoliberals are now more leninist than the Leninists” is getting increasingly :sus:
Huh? Y'all people are consuming doomerism theory from an incoherent anticommunist yank? (Forgive the redundancy)
Leninism is when you use the immense power of the state to do things?
Fisher was bri*ish
Even worse, really
:british-maw:
Imagine reading a book by someone who probably knows someone named Archibald or Hugh
Rupert Coalbaron-Slaver III
Vivian Smellfist
A friend of mine told me it was good and not too long so I decided to get it and give it a read. Tbf the first 3 and a half chapters have been pretty good for the most part until he got onto the weird stuff I mentioned.
I don’t know anything really about Lacan so I was just nodding through all the bits where he talks about Lacanian stuff and trying to understand them.
Also the bit where he said that being born British could be considered a sickness was pretty funny.
Lacan is a brain virus that infects academic leftists and makes them see all kinds of weird shit. It's like muscle bros taking acid. You see part of the picture, but then become convinced that because you saw past a small part of the illusion of ideology, you saw past everything, rather than grasping how little we actually know and understand about reality.
And then you lecture and write books on it forever becoming increasingly disconnected from working class and activist movements.
This is basically Fisher and Zizek distilled. The only thing saving the chapos is that they are too lazy to read Lacan, and only Matt is kinda academic enough to fall for it.
thankfully Matt's too grillpilled rn from his marriage vibes lol
I'm intrigued, do you have a semi or non academic intro to Lacan? I can deal with some smarty pants words but not all of them so it doesn't have to be completely dumbed down.
To me stuff like Lacan or Deleuze and similar stuff always seemed like impenetrable bloviating.
Regrettably, I don't, at least not off the top of my head. I'll look into it this weekend and if someone else chimes in, go with them. The most basic way I can describe it is dialectical psychology, which you would think makes sense, and does, but also gives you an ideological vasectomy in the process (because it renders both you and itself impotent). It's alot like nihilism or absurdism with more steps.
Lol, I don't know anything about Deleuze.
It’s commonly recommended by leftists of all creed