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  • UlyssesT
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    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      Yeah Dialectical Materialism, not Naive Materialism. The latter is techbro bazinga brainworms. Ideology exists and is important. heck Dialectical Materialism is an ideology!

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      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        lol, it's more like Andrew Tate's mere ideas do not have the ability to change the world. And it's true, if the young men did not have the material conditions they do that makes them receptive to a fuckhead like Tate, he'd be just some asshole somewhere on the internet no one cares about - and he probably wouldn't exist as the trafficker, abuser, and moronic asshole he is without the material conditions of the 90s and 00s US shaping him. He needs the internet manosphere and redpill culture and rape culture and sexist/homophobic etc US to become who he is and feed into that culture. And all of those exist for material reasons - misogyny, for example, because capitalism needs domestic/reproductive labor to be done for free or cheaply as possible. And his followers needed to be brought up in the 00s and mostly 10s to be receptive, the gen z hopelessness of growing up knowing there is no future for America or the world due to climate change or infinite polycrises with no solution absent revolution and especially when they all got shunted online because of covid for a hot minute, I don't think he was super popular until after 2020.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      Ideology and propaganda grow out of material conditions and the “industry” that creates them is based in material reality. Just because it is spread over the internet doesn’t mean it isn’t material.

      For instance, in this case there’s a material basis that causes content like this guy’s rises to the top of YouTube and becomes visible.

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        • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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          Saying propaganda doesn’t influence people is anti-materialist lol, I hope nobody is actually saying that. If propaganda didn’t work it wouldn’t be so ubiquitous. This seems like pretty basic base/superstructure shit that anyone calling themselves a Marxist should understand.

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