#Marxian

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The concept it seems everyone is missing right now is "conflict theory." This idea is why everyone keeps pointing at MarxISM and keeps getting correctly told this isn't MarxISM. It's

Anwesh Satpathy

anwesh_satpathy

Right wing just doesnt get nuance at all. Im exclusively talking about the most popular ones(Ben Shapiro&Vivek Agnihotri fans?). They confuse terms, make a strawman and argue against that strawman.

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

I think a lot about how the Woke ideology is definitely deeply rooted in Marxian (not Marxist -- this is important) thought and yet is so overwhelmingly obviously super next-level

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The radical left talks about "democracy" in a way inherited from the communists, who insisted that true democracy isn't possible where oppression exists in any capacity except in service to

Smaran Dayal

smaran

Sianne Ngai is describing her choice of Jameson's The Political Unconscious as part of the "A Book That Changed My Mind" series.(I posted a screenshot and deleted because she's asked

James Carradine

JamesCarradin10

Bulverism, Kafkatrapping, Reinforced Dogmatism, Polylogism in a thread... Bulverism (CS Lewis): The Bulverist assumes a speaker's argument is invalid or false and then explains why the speaker came to make

Josh Jackson

JoshuaYJackson

Here’s the thing about some on the ‘left’(?) pushing against reading Marx & Lenin: the work of Marxism Leninism is not some dated philosophers scheme but a reflection of the

☭Praveen Kumar☭

Praveen_K_Kumar

Why the Nazis were not left wing, straight from the Nazi horses' mouths.But first, let's remind ourselves of one of their victim's own words, Lutheran pastor, national conservative and an

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

So there is a kind of circular argument I want to expose. Neoclassical economists & neoliberal ideologues have successfully argued for a social consensus around economic growth on the basis

Navroop Singh

NavroopSingh_

Mahakaleshwar Panchamrita Row: ‘Doctrine of Subsidiary Alliance’ updated for Hindu Temples - do Read @TheSignOfFive http://www.hindupost.in/society-culture/mahakaleshwar-panchamrita-row-doctrine-subsidiary-alliance-updated-hindu-temples

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

Why Marx thought aesthetics were important and why you should, too:A thread Content/Form Dialectics: Content is what we sense and form is how our brain arranges sense data. Marx rejected

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

No. Classical liberals oppose the part of the status quo dubbed 'wokeism.' They think it's illiberal & regressive & want neoliberalismLeft liberals share this perception of wokeists, but don't like

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

Communism is the dream of a good society, one that is based on kindness, cooperation, sharing, and love; one in which none go hungry, and none grow rich off the

Dr. Ellie Lockhart is the protagonist

BootlegGirl

The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly

Chaos

chaosprime

accelerationism: come for the intellectualized excuse for ruthless opportunism, stay for the fast-cycling fungal bloom of love-hate personality cultshttps://twitter.com/jenphalian/status/1050013775909269504 nihilism: come for the courageous

KC

ClimbhiKc

So, after a looong time, a looong thread on a book by DD Kosambi. Kosambi was a mathematician by training but is known more for historiography. He did a Marxian

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