PropagandaOfTheDude
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PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
Marxism is modern and materialist; cultural Marxism is postmodern and sociological. The idea was to use Marxist insights to determine how to distribute sociological, rather than material, "equality."
Did or does Marxism talk about how? Or was it mostly an analysis of current pressures, with a prediction that socialism and communism would inevitably come to pass?
PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
Frankly, I think it is all fundamentally about resentment of the have nots against the haves, and this is essentially a parallel development.
The Frankfurt school brings a memeplex that the solution is obvious, and those in-the-know just have to keep reiterating why the problem is bad until people come around.
But it's also postmodern and Gnostic. The one unifying agreement is that everything is white cis-hetero patriarchal capitalist—our modern Yaldabaoth. That Everyday Feminism comic is reminding you that even if you think that you have gained knowledge and escaped, you probably haven't. There's always more work to do.
PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music discusses various ways that music genres grab ideas from other music genres. Or enthusiasts take a particular element from one genre and put it front-and-center into new tracks, making it distinctive enough to be its own genre. Calling this process "direct and coherent" would overstate things.
Same process here.
(I suppose that "Cultural Marxism" is roughly equivalent to the hearing "Oh, you listen to disco?", back in the day.)
PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
From the old country, worth linking to.
Occasionally, I find myself listing out all the different things that people use the words "capitalism" or "capitalist" to mean. I think I need to add a couple.
That website is using the "state of alienation, strife, and scarcity; considered as a moral and natural evil" meaning.
PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
I'm also reminded of that one woman who committed suicide a few years ago IIRC, who had written a book about her experience dressing up as a man (no transition, just roleplaying for the book), where she seemed to come to some revelations about the difficulties of men's lives that were completely invisible to her before the experience.
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
Theoden sings....
I am the very model of a mediaeval Anglian
The truth of this suffuses every nerve and every ganglion
While some proclaim my folc to be Germanic (miscellaneous)
I am in in fact bewildered by this theory extra-aneous
I'm neither Lombard, Hun or Goth or any of that eastern crowd
We're Anglo-Saxon to the core although we fight on horses proud
Some seem to think our armour bright could easily be Persian
But it is plain to see that it is mediaeval Mercian
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
"I grew up in Louisiana..."
"Woo!"
"Yeah, see... Whenever I do that, people... Some people will 'woo', but that's for New Orleans. Which is the best part."
When I started using a split keyboard, I realized that I pressed the "B" key with my right index finger. That took some adjusting. Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge.
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