I put this in the last megathread right before it closed for business so I'm putting it here too. Sue me.
Why is every /r/Neoliberal cretin that I end up coming across in random subreddits the absolute most dense, yet overly confident people in the world?
I was defending protections for renters and support of decommodification of housing and one came out of left field to drop a brookings institute link and call me a trump supporter? In what fucking world?
They don't think and just regurgitate information from neolib sources. their point of view is dominant in culture so they get celebrated for it, which creates a positive feedback loop for the brainless regurgitation.
see also how straight A students are often (not always, just often) trying to do insane shit like memorizing the answers to all the math exercises that might be on a test
My 2nd year physics professor always put one open problem on the exam worth 15% of the exam mark (like, "work out the total energy output of the Sun based on its mass." It was always new and you could in principle solve it using the stuff you'd learned over the semester, but it didn't resemble any example problems. You had to understand the actual subject to decide which equations to use and how to apply them.
It was amazing watching the rage of the straight HD students.
Not sure how serious this is, but this is going to be a huge block of text in response so I apologize in advance:
TLDR Neolibs think they’re incredibly smart and correct because they have sources. All of the mainstream political discourse agrees with them.
Long answer:
Because of this, they never consider that every single one of those sources is biased literally due to the core tenets of neoliberalism itself but self criticism is impossible when the ideology itself demands to be immune from criticism.
This is part of what makes Marx so fucking smart and relevant to this day. He wrote self criticism into the ideology itself in the form of dialectical materialism. We base our observations of the world in the reality we know to be true and come to conclusions based on that. That’s why ideologies like neoliberalism seem so fucking insane to the left, because they are openly inconsistent in both observation and attempt to address the problem.
You may have never read theory in your life, but if you’re on the left you’ve likely come to the realization that almost all of the world’s major problems stem from very few actual sources and then branch out from there. Neoliberalism tries to address the problems by pruning the individual leaves and twigs and branches of the tree, whereas Marxism will tell you that if you saw clean through the trunk you also kill off all of the problems present in the leaves, twigs and branches.
Lukács says it quite beautifully:
“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx’s investigations. It is not the ‘belief’ in this or that thesis, nor the exegesis of a ‘sacred’ book. On the contrary, orthodoxy refers exclusively to method. It is the scientific conviction that dialectical materialism is the road to truth and that its methods can be developed, expanded and deepened only along the lines laid down by its founders.”
To put it simply, we don’t believe Marx because he’s Marx. We believe Marx because reality backs up his claims, and as a result we expand on them.
I put this in the last megathread right before it closed for business so I'm putting it here too. Sue me.
Why is every /r/Neoliberal cretin that I end up coming across in random subreddits the absolute most dense, yet overly confident people in the world?
I was defending protections for renters and support of decommodification of housing and one came out of left field to drop a brookings institute link and call me a trump supporter? In what fucking world?
They don't think and just regurgitate information from neolib sources. their point of view is dominant in culture so they get celebrated for it, which creates a positive feedback loop for the brainless regurgitation.
see also how straight A students are often (not always, just often) trying to do insane shit like memorizing the answers to all the math exercises that might be on a test
My 2nd year physics professor always put one open problem on the exam worth 15% of the exam mark (like, "work out the total energy output of the Sun based on its mass." It was always new and you could in principle solve it using the stuff you'd learned over the semester, but it didn't resemble any example problems. You had to understand the actual subject to decide which equations to use and how to apply them.
It was amazing watching the rage of the straight HD students.
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Not sure how serious this is, but this is going to be a huge block of text in response so I apologize in advance: TLDR Neolibs think they’re incredibly smart and correct because they have sources. All of the mainstream political discourse agrees with them.
Long answer: Because of this, they never consider that every single one of those sources is biased literally due to the core tenets of neoliberalism itself but self criticism is impossible when the ideology itself demands to be immune from criticism.
This is part of what makes Marx so fucking smart and relevant to this day. He wrote self criticism into the ideology itself in the form of dialectical materialism. We base our observations of the world in the reality we know to be true and come to conclusions based on that. That’s why ideologies like neoliberalism seem so fucking insane to the left, because they are openly inconsistent in both observation and attempt to address the problem.
You may have never read theory in your life, but if you’re on the left you’ve likely come to the realization that almost all of the world’s major problems stem from very few actual sources and then branch out from there. Neoliberalism tries to address the problems by pruning the individual leaves and twigs and branches of the tree, whereas Marxism will tell you that if you saw clean through the trunk you also kill off all of the problems present in the leaves, twigs and branches.
Lukács says it quite beautifully:
To put it simply, we don’t believe Marx because he’s Marx. We believe Marx because reality backs up his claims, and as a result we expand on them.
Quality effortpost cumrad
Thanks conrad :sankara-salute:
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why are the petite bourgeoisie narcissists?
Isn't the "you're with us or against us" mentality the same one that ISIS has?