Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to contain
Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to contain
Dialectic and historical materialism are pseudoscience. Applications in which lead to brutal dictatorships like Pol Pot and disastrous policies like Lysenkoism. The masses are an object of inertia, there is no unconsciousness of the masses, they are aware of their material conditions and they don’t care, they just want someone in charge to blame when things go wrong. Historical forces only move on the Principle of Evil (vice, sin, self-interest), the masses only rise up when they are literally starving, and embrace change when it is seductive.
What in the idealist load of bullcrap is this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
This all you got? Further idealism?
You seem to not grasp meaning of the term “idealism.” Would you like a dictionary?
Seems like that’s all you’ve got dictionary definitions and Wikipedia pages. Have you read any books?
And yes the ideas you espouse are idealist because they aren’t based on an objective look at how things actually develop and fall back to reductive phrases like “human nature”
Throughout human history, the general pattern is dominance hierarchies form, wealth accumulates and eventually the system collapses. Previous collapses, people were able to disperse and live somewhat egalitarian lifestyles temporarily but the interdependence created by global neoliberal capitalism means there is nothing to fall back on. Self-termination (extinction) is the most likely path.
That’s what you call ideal? What is wrong with you?
Brother you literally cited capitalist realism like it supports your claim when the guy who coined the term was a LITERAL SOCIALIST HIMSELF. You’re not educated about anything.
Other economic systems fell as a result of contradictions between classes. The roman empire fell because there were no lands left to pillage and no slaves left to misuse. Feudalism fell because the peasants wanted to be free labourers and the lords wanted money and not agricultural products. Capitalism WILL fall because there are contradictions between who owns the means of production and those who are subject to it. This contradiction is being accelerated by climate change and the global south is experiencing the brunt of this.
Shut the fuck up and do some reading
You don’t even know what the term idealism is😂🫵. You think I’m using it to call a system great or something. You’re a halfwit!
Have you read capitalist realism? The guy killed himself because he placed all his hopes that it wasn’t the case. Literally read a fucking book.
Capitalism falls to what? What replaces the system? Technofeudalism?
You are so propagandized you have no idea what I said, the type of system does not matter in so far as it is a dominance hierarchy.
Capitalist Realism, M. Fisher.
You didn’t read the book and yet claim you know the contents. Lol.
You should probably explain what you mean, because I already stated that ideological fantasy does not determine objective reality.
That is the exact opposite of “idealism” you dolt.
Feudalism fell to the capitalists, the only revolutionary class in world history.
Talk about reductivist slop, it’s not wonder socialists make ideal converts to fascism.
Your comment has almost nothing to do with what was the substance of my comment so I’m not gonna take the bait. I’m not here to debate with a doomer about dialectical materialism. Something you’re very clearly not capable of understanding. Because you described it as some sort of mass pshycosis for some reason. Which just tells me you don’t actually know what you’re talking about.
If you’d like to be more specific about what PART of my comment’s analysis is wrong. Or somehow leading to “dictatorships”? But you basically saw the words “dialectical materialism” and then regurgitated shit completely unrelated to the substance of my comment.
It was explicitly outlined in Marx’s writing. The dictatorship of the proletariat. As Žižek wrote in The Sublime Object of Ideology, “ideological fantasy creates social reality.” However, that social reality does not determine objective reality, merely how we interact with it. The Marxist position of achieving class consciousness is a falsehood, it is a presupposition that ignores human nature. There is no deeper philosophical meaning, the surface is the truth, the masses are an inertial force, an object not a subject. In a deterministic universe, all we have to do is look at past results to predict future outcomes.
A quote from my copy of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, “What is universally valid is also universally effective; what ought to be, in fact also is, and what ought to be without [actually] being, has no truth.”
What conversation are you hoping to have here? Because my comment was about Israel and its relationship to American imperialism fueling antisemitism. I really can’t be bothered to engage with someone who’s entire argument revolves around an appeal to “human nature”. My friend, we have fucking planes and skyscrapers and we’re communicating instantly from anywhere in the planet either of us might be right now. Part of being human is literally about overcoming nature. If you ever hear yourself saying “this is wrong because its against human nature to <blank>” you should probably get a better foundation for your argument. Because an appeal to some vague idea of “human nature” is about as good as appealing to some deity.
Wanna talk about my criticism of American Imperialism and Israel? Because that’s what you replied to.
You’re entire comment comes from a flawed position, I don’t need to focus on particulars when your entire premise is wrong.
Instead of engaging my comment, you fall back on logical fallacies. Your pseudoscientific analysis points to a lack of understanding of reality itself. It’s almost like your entire worldview was formed by propaganda coming through a screen.
Go ahead and explain how people in general are going to spontaneously evolve beyond the human condition. I do not ascribe good or bad to it, I just find it important to maybe you know, start from an accurate position.
Signifying chains may appear contradictory, but they are not. There is no commitment to any previous meaning, it can simply be resignified.
This is what makes my previous comments relevant. The tools you used are inadequate, it’s pseudoscience. I did not make an “appeal to nature,” I made empirical observation showing that your argument is invalid.
From your (il)logical position, you build an argument based on fallacy after fallacy. Strawman, hasty generalization, post hoc, appeal to emotion, slippery slope.
Fuentes is not gaining traction because material conditions deteriorate, its because his message was amplified in right wing media circles, and his message is seductive. Social media has somewhat decentralized control over messaging, so regardless of material conditions, a seductive message would gain popularity.
The left also lacks “class consciousness,” so why are they not seduced by rascist, xenophobic messages? Maybe because their signifying chains take an inverse position?
Here is evidence that disproves your assertions and renders your argument invalid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union
Incorrect. American popular support for Israel is projected to decline, there is a threshold of tolerance that overrides “profit incentives and Imperialism.”
America will always support Israel? That’s a long time. You make this prediction based on your cognitive bias and (il)logical reasoning.
If the right wing is the “nazi party,” why do they support Israel? The establishment uses parafascism to bring extremist elements to their side, but has no interest in transforming society into some mythical utopia of the past.
Most leftists don’t either. Most leftists only take an adversarial position of America and ignore the rest of the world and history.
Your entire worldview is built on logical fallacy and propaganda. The extreme right is the group being placed on the altar of sacrifice, they are unleashed for the purpose of making them so intolerable, everyday Americans will accept any draconian measures to be rid of them.
Welcome to the society of the spectacle, its not the working class who are stupid, but the “intellectual” (you) who doesn’t understand them or even the basic fundamentals of reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_of_elites
You clearly don’t understand what I’m even talking about in the context you quoted. If you did you’d realize you’re just repeating what I said. You aren’t even disagreeing with me. I was literally explaining how they appear as contradictions to the current narrative of the right wing at the moment. Which results in a shift of the narrative to align it closer to their true ideology (something they usually hide the totality of). I wasn’t saying it was a contradiction to right wing ideology at it’s core.
I think you’re so ready to disagree with me you didn’t even understand what I wrote. It’s clear you’re not actually looking to have a conversation. You decided you disagree with me when you read the words “historical materialism” and didn’t even bother trying to understand what was written. Do better.
Also, you sound like a 12 year old debate lord listing off logical fallacies they learned last week without actually doing any of the work logically to conclude them. You might think it sounds smart. But it really just makes you sound childish. Especially when you didn’t actually do any logical analysis to conclude to them in the first place. Logical fallacies aren’t a shopping list mate. You wrote so much and said so little.
Geez if you think that’s bad wait until you find out how many people capitalist dictators have killed in just the last year
Dumbass lmao and I don’t even buy Marx
The ideology is irrelevant in dominance hierarchies, they all follow similar patterns. Maybe read a book instead of spewing logical fallacies ad hominem, red herring, false equivalency.
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