I'd just laugh at this fucking dork if he wasn't a perpetrator and promoter of sexual violence and slavery. Real monsters exist, and he is one of them.
I'd just laugh at this fucking dork if he wasn't a perpetrator and promoter of sexual violence and slavery. Real monsters exist, and he is one of them.
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.
Sure, call it material and part of material conditions and I won't even argue against that.
What I will argue against is the belief that some have that propaganda doesn't influence people because people would have done the exact same things with or without that propaganda exposure.
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.
Not yet in this thread, but old struggle sessions way back did make that claim. I won't name names.