Communist Marxism, Ya Know

things are bad, you'll

lmao this is exactly what I'm doing now that i'm stuck living with my folks for the forseeable future. It's like summer vacation again, except it's not fun and i wish it could end. That being said it gives me room to breathe, have alone time, write, watch movies etc. so it's not the worst thing in the world

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will always remember & cherish the chills I got first time i heard this

Me

only slightly relevant but I want to make sure everyone has read THIS. it's what a group of actual monkeys typed on a keyboard

boog is Boogaloo. "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" or something to that effect

i.e. they support the "civil unrest" aspects of the protest, in hopes that it will escalate to the point of a race war.

(fwiw I've only read bits and pieces of Capitalism & Schizophrenia and have no business acting like i understand it well. got here from /all, never taken a philosophy class or anything ,just have a passing interest in this)

For me the concepts start to click a bit more if treated less like a text to be literally understood, and more like a work of surrealist art (to be kind of emotionally understood, felt, yknow). Foucault says something like this in his preface to Anti-Oedipus, that it's best approached as "an art."

one thing I do get from D&G (at least Anti Oedipus, as that's what I've read the most of) is an examination of the hierarchies that infect every aspect of our lives, constrict our ways of thinking, cripple the imagination, and reduce our boundless potential in the service of Capital.

For example: Think of your typical Freudian psychoanalysis, where someone's whole mental situation is often reduced to "He wants to fuck mommy" or "She has penis envy." Awfully reductive, wouldn't you say? The patient's situation could potentially be very complex, and there might not be anything even wrong with them, we could even learn from them! But the whole factory line functions way better if we all just accept a canned explanation that the system decides is healthy. The way we think about our own brains, how we think about thinking itself, is constructed in service of the market.

I guess that's where the Schizophrenia comes in, with the metaphorical Schizophrenic being a figure who, unable to perceive a lot of things in the socially acceptable, capital-approved way, can't "Play by Their Rules." By virtue of not knowing these structures, he's able to subvert them, and if we can erase these rigid lines that our society draws in our brains to corral our thoughts, and we become more like the proverbial Schizophrenic, we'll end up better off for it.

That's my dollar store understanding, at least.

the o.g. Texas Chain Saw Massacre does it for me

Gravity's Rainbow

"I fought against trans- What? She's admitting it? "-national criminal organizations" ah. suuure.

Congratulations!

oh yeah, duhh, that's pretty major. Guess we better get ready.

anyone still going to protests in smaller cities, outside of the major hubs like Portland? there's not a lot (not nothing just comparatively little) around where I live so it's easy to feel demotivated. is it really winding down, or do we think it's gonna pick back up again?