Armin
14d ago
I know that maybe is a bit OT here, but I cannot wrap my head, after seeing communists argue on /r/wikipedia (that, as the wiki itself, is full of radical leftists arguing inside) about communism.
When I think how Marxism was gladly embraced by èlites in the West, and, after the fall of the URSS, the more anglocentric progressive one that took his side, it makes me think about the type of people that embrace it.
As Zagrebbi argue here https://salafisommelier.substack.com/p/a-robin-hanson-perspective-on-the Marxism is really the Platonic Realm of wordcellery!
All arguments, apart from being factually false, are reduced not on "policy" or "government", but on words, and how to define words, how to use words in a different manner, how words can be used in different ways, how different ideologies are different because "words" says so. A typical argument goes like this: "Communism is good because, unlike Fascism or whatever else, has a good objective. The objective is good because Communism say so. Different types of Communism are born from different interpretation of Communism, who are not all good (choose here if we are talking about Stalin, Social Democracy, Left Liberalism, Anarchism, Maoism etc) because they did not adhere to the ideal definition of Communism, and everyone who does not produce a good result has secretly bad objectives or it was a Fascist all along"
Obviously I am paraphrasing an hypotetical argument of an hypotetical communist, so I am really fighting against a non-entity here. But I saw enough debates that I could crystallise it in few phrases, and understand that the marxist galaxy today has been reduced to discussions about hypoteticals and fandoms, as if it was Fanfiction.net or Archive of Our Own. Gone are the immense volumes of marxist economy or revolutionary action, in autistic dissertation on good end evil. Or maybe not, and I do not have enough knowledge of historical marxist politics, maybe they were like this all along, but I refuse to believe that communists won for decades using this kind of reasoning.
It is not surprising why Wokism had an evolutionary advantage on post-URSS marxism. All of this autism is pretty ick, it works on Reddit but not on real life, because every normal person can smell with a bullshit detector that this lines are actively trying to scam you as a North African reseller on an Italian beach. Wokism is better as an ideology because it refuses, partially, to play words. Patriarchy and Europeans are not evil because machiavellian people have tried to derail the progressive project, and our objective is to clean it arguing that, no, whoever did something bad was actively trying to sabotage the Real Meaning of Patriarchy. No, they are evil because of biology/social constructs and they deserve suffering. Autistic screeching and wordcelism do not play well with modern political coalition and the Schmittian Friend/Enemy distinction, and they also makes the women have the ick and the supporters smells like Redditors!
Armin
14d ago
Gotcha
I think that there is too much digital ink used in explaining why and how modern western parties behave in an almost erratic way, about philosophy, material reasons or political doctrines etc, when the usual explanation and the one that we use in a Occam's razor way is women dominate them.
Armin
14d ago
Because of demographics. They are basically women's parties, and women organise along intersectionalist ways because of their inherent egualitarism and mean girl culture. Analysis about material society or industrialism or whatever are nonsensycal because they are social clubs about what is ick and what is not.
Armin
19d ago
My thesis was the temporary victory of cultural conservatism that was necessary because of war struggle, collective action and anticommunism + tech innovation and huge economic growth. Delete the low hanging fruit of recovery and growth, and then in the 68 eliminate the antileftist culture, and you have it.
Armin
2mo ago
I do not have anything to say apart from that the Western Right is totally fucked.
Armin
3mo ago
Just for context, Zuppi is the president of the CEI and a radical immigrationist. He is probably the most pro-open border institutional person in Italy, and a radical leftist to booth.
Armin
5mo ago
Why do I hate every job I do?
I changed job, like, 4 times in my life. To give a bit of perspective, I did a bit of everything (Public servant in administration, consultancy for a small company, then marketing specialist, now business developer and client & project manager)
EVerytime the job was defined by an initial sense of excitement and wonder, an honeymoon lasting like 6 months, and then complete demoralization and destruction. The reasons are always the same: Sense of abandonement from upper echelon, sense of uselessness, frustration derived from general disorganisation etc.
But after changing several jobs, everytime with radical differences both in theme, position, duties, working hours, wage etc, I am beginning to think that maybe the problem resides with me? I am more of an academic/literate type, always loved to write, read, talk with people. But earning a life with this kind of job is impossible, so I decided to pursue more earthly manners. But still, I feel frustrated, and despite adopting every possible idea to improve on the job (training, strict sleep and relaxation schedule, learning how to focus and external tools to remember tasks etc), I still fail to feel remotely good at something.
I have no idea what to do, I feel way less intelligent than I look like from the external.
Armin
6mo ago
Because we are missing the objective of the Holocaust Remembrance. It was never about remembering the Jews, it was about depoliticizing and deracialise European cultures, imprinting self-hate and leftists narrative control of reality. The moment the Jews became outmoded for several reasons (Israel, too European-like, whatever) Holocaust Remembrance will shift to gays, trans,gypsies or actual communists.
Armin
6mo ago
In this context, and being a believer in the concept of "ideologies are born to facilitate political struggles", wokism for me is the synthesis of black nationalism, third worldism and feminism that was created to improve the electoral odds and power of the Democratic Party, and then was wielded by the US Empire as an imperial ideology in order to make it easier to control the satellite states.
If we follow this definition of wokism, it is clear that it will lose importance the moment it will not be useful anymore to the US Empire (so never, for now)
Armin
6mo ago
Regarding the PMC reaction to Trump's executive orders
It has been hilarious to see the scandalized reaction of some of the people I know on Trump effectively deciding something, as if they were not accustomed anymore to an executive power taking drastical action.
But this is not the topic of the day, instead I was thinking on how, strategically, the Left could respond.
Assuming that we know very well that the Left's demographical bread and butter have been PMC, white collars and upper class people for some years at this point, I think they have finally the opportunity to take, again, the mantle of the battle between the capitalist class and everyone else. Silents for years apart from ineffective rhetoric, now they have the photobombing opportunity to show Bezos, Zuck, Musk and others all together near Trump.
Maybe there is a future in the short-term for the class-based left, now that they can use the rhetorical baton to affirm that they have always been against the upper classes?
Armin
7mo ago
Yeah, the reason behind the left-wing rally behind environmentalism was never about environment itself, but about obtaining another method of doing the Revolution.
If you ever spoke with committed climate leftists, you quick understand that any discourse is not related to the environment, the economic or tech tools to use, energy, consumption etc, but it is about how to change people to achieve their particular brand of Socialism of the day.
Bonus point if you speak with left-wing climate women: At least men will earnestly tell you that is about the Revolution, while women will shut out angry rants about Mother Earth or being attuned with nature or whetever. A telluric and Dyonisian cult with socialist characteristics, made by people that, without modernity and capitalism, would be better doing literally any other job.
Armin
7mo ago
I do not understand where the issue is here. Interpreting it in a Schmittian way;
- Restriction against dangerous behaviour is rightwing and enemy-coded, so it is bad
- Restriction against extremist consuming behaviour is leftwing and friend-coded, so it is good
There is no principle or morality here, only that one restriction is good because friend and the other is bad because enemy.
I think the main problem, when here we try to talk about the reason behind certain behaviours motivated by ethics, is that we always try to rationalise problems and find where is the source, intellectual or moral, behind actions. But often there is no one, it is simply behaviour motivated by friend/enemy distinction.
Armin
9mo ago
Notice how the investigation was carried by Hope not Hate, one of the most (public) well-funded radical left wing NGO in the UK.
Armin
9mo ago
I do not understand why we use mental energies on the philosophical why of things when we have the perfect answer. Transgenderism empowers the left, transracialism does not. So the first is logical and the second is not, simple as.
Armin
10mo ago
The requisite is 10 years of residence. The proposer of the referendum says it is too high (I suppose that for them everything that is not open border is too high)
Armin
10mo ago
Collection of signatures in Italy regarding a popular referendum (doable with 500k signatures, they arrived at 400k this morning) to lower to 5 years the requisites for citizenship.
Proposed thanks to the usual eternal alliance between the Radicals (free marketers, Atlanticist and pro-US liberals) and the socialists-left wing parties.
If the Constitutional Court permits it, it will be another cultural war. Enormous error of the right wing government (as usual) to not reinforce the institute of citizenship, as always the right is reactive and not proactive.
Armin
11mo ago
I absolutely expect half of the men from my region to instantly convert to the female gender if gender switching is introduced and being a female let you pay less taxes or whatever.
Armin
11mo ago
Simple feminization of society, and the result of the alliance between feminist power groups and western èlites.
Armin
1yr ago
I read a bit about this Deirdre on the wikipedia page, and saw the failed cancellation campaign in 2003. I mean, probably it is true that this is not what defined her, but still I can see the germs of cancel culture in it.
Armin
1yr ago
FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Another win imho for the faction "Nothing ever happens"
Win for the NFP and the left, Macron's party recedes but still resists, RN did not win ad expected. Tactical voting and a surge in participation did it, the "1945 Front" keep winning.
The huge banner that says "France is a nation of immigrants" says everything.
Armin
1yr ago
Just for context,Zuppi is the Archbishop of Bologna, president of the CEI and friend of the left-wing regional and local government in Emilia-Romagna.
His main policy is facilitating immigration from Africa, and political help for the Left/Greens.
Armin
1yr ago
I only want to say that the conclave of German cardinals and political allies is too much fun. Germans are something else, menacing a split if the Pope do not accept trans rights.
Armin
1yr ago
I am not an expert by any mean, but imho is the same situation of Croatia in the 90s; everyone screeching about far right nationalists who like Hitler and the Ustasce and the next croatian fascist regime after the war with Serbia. Then you have liberal democracy and talk of gay marriage legalization.
The Liberal-Atlantic bloc has been very good at using then dismantling far right organisation without any sort of problem, I have no doubt they will also do it in Ukraine. Unlike far-left organisations, there is no desire to keep these groups in power after the Emergency.
As always,Woke more correct. They rightly see aesthetics like this as an existential enemy and they rally against it.
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