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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism

#economics #politics #Marxism

Of course this critique of Marxism is mostly wrong on many aspects, but it's at least honest (instead as being completely bunk as 99% of similar endeavours). It's somewhat similar to people criticising Darwin for not having a functioning genetic theory to try invalidating evolution.

https://josephheath.substack.com/p/key-stages-in-the-decline-of-academic

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism

The fact that my previous post, on John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism, attracted several times more readers than anything I’ve previously published on Substack, forced me to acknowledge that, at a fundamental level, I have no idea what...

mastermind@diaspora-fr.org
Zé Po(l)vinho

#marxism
"Marxism is indeed relevant today. While we may not be in the industrial revolution, the issue of lacking ownership of the means of production persists. Additionally, there is a lack of transparency in non-public code and algorithmics, which raises concerns. Furthermore, our machines, despite their intelligence, are not environmentally friendly and require ethical considerations. They rely on energy provided by private companies that exploit both people and the environment, selling expensive energy from unsafe sources, in order to operate these machines that we do not own. These machines are built as commercial secrets protected by intellectual property, and the materials used to construct them are not public resources or goods. Consequently, we witness costly and unsafe energy practices that harm the Earth through exploitative mining and contamination. To address this, we need fair labor practices and risk compensation, enabling us to mine using renewable resources and build renewables openly and based on open standards available to all who wish to build and use them. Currently, a significant portion of our communication occurs in cyberspace, where we unknowingly pay with our data to the cyber "landlords," resembling a feudalistic system. This centralized computing, often referred to as cloud computing, is the prevailing model adopted by the "Big Tech" platforms. Upon closer analysis, all of these aspects reveal a repetition of past patterns.

We should not only focus on publishing memes and posting beautiful texts, but rather on organizing all the 'small fishes' to prevent being consumed by the system. I believe that a post-Marxism and post-capitalism era is possible, as the rules of labor and exploitation are undergoing a transformative shift. The Earth is in dire need of assistance, and so are we. Defeating and dismantling capitalism requires more than just posting online. A good starting point is to learn from the past and unite and cooperate with one another. We can establish cooperatives of the people, including scientific and agricultural cooperatives, where we collectively own and build the necessary means of production based on fair and communal principles. We can work towards developing shared economies, even if it means moving away from the use of money and currency. However, we must find a starting point to erode and dismantle capitalism. At present, it often feels like being a mouse trapped in a cage or a labyrinth, perpetually running on a wheel. We need a way out to attain true freedom, as the current system is akin to a sadistic social experiment imposed by capitalism itself."

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axidentalist@sysad.org
axidentalist

If you're confused about the #global #political situation [it's #leftism. it's #fascism, etc, etc] to a point at which "blue Marxism" is a thing, I've been trying to explain for some time now..................

The situation is accelerating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

#Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideas in left-wing and right-wing ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, infrastructure sabotage and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, otherwise referred to as "acceleration".[1][2][3][4] It has been regarded as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants, both of which support the indefinite intensification of capitalism and its structures as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical point in time where technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.[

This is a #spectacular shift.

Materialized ideology has no name, just as it has no formulatable historical agenda. Which is another way of saying that the history of different ideologies is over.
[Debord]

From my point of view, there can't be "Left Accelerationsim" One can't "push" capitalism to its final phase. That phase can only be reached by firstly, the workers having control of the MOP.

One thing I hadn't noticed until recently was the association of #Marxism with #Gnosticism among some on the Right. This seems contradictory considering that the heretical nature of #Gnostic sects was determined by the Roman Church. The Roman Church doesn't believe in the individual knowledge of God. God can only be arrived at by incantations and through earthly intermediaries. A position which contradicts the teachings of Jesus. As I made case of in recent discussion with one #Trump supporter, #Jesus and his followers were a Theosophist cult, in effect. Therefore levelling such an accusation at #Marxism, might be viewed as incongruous.

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vm_idaho@sysad.org
Vee McMillen

https://newdiscourses.com/2024/01/how-the-woke-infiltrate/
#woke #Marxism #takeovers
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 77
When Woke Marxists set their sights on an organization, there’s a predictable pattern for how they’ll get in and take over. Proceeding in five steps, it looks like this. First, they demand access. Once in, they demand accommodation, which will be weaponized according to their ability to take offense at everything. Then they’ll demand a seat at the table, which is to say access to power. That will quickly expand to demanding to control the table and setting the rules. From there, they’ll demand to control the whole room (organization). This is predictable, and it can be spotted and stopped. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains. Join him so you can learn to recognize it and fight back.

How the Woke Infiltrate

When Woke Marxists set their sights on an organization, there's a predictable pattern for how they'll get in and take over.

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

#Etymology of Religion.

-re
From Proto-Indo-European 'wert' or 'ure' via Latin via Old #French: back, turn, do again, further do, transition, restore.

lig
From Proto-Indo-European 'leg' via #Latin 'legere' & Proto-Indo-European 'leig' via Latin 'ligare:' collect, gather, tie, bind.

-ion
From Latin '-ionem' used as a #word element forming nouns from verbs.

Religion is therefore repeated restoration of #transitional gathering & binding. #Religious ideology is therefore a restorative #system of #ideas that repeatedly gathers #human #minds & transitionally binds them to #ideology.

#God/s can exist regardless of #religion & pseudo-religions like #Marxism, #Scientism & #Transhumanism are equally concerned with gathering & binding minds to ideology.

#protoindoeuropean

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

The political tool of "racism" is a form of #Marxism. #Political "racism" is a #psychosocial-#linguistic #tool developed in the late 19th century & deployed in the early 20th century as part of the plagiarised #ideological #weapon of Marxism. #Race Marxism has since been incorporated into #social engineering #strategies as a way to form, perpetuate & #control #multiracial societies.

The #Marxist notion of "#racism" attempts to cast a real or #perceived racial or #ethnic majority-group as an "#oppressor" #class & a real or perceived #racial or #ethnic minority-group as an "#oppressed" #class. This classification is then leveraged, like all Marxism, to break down a #society & reconstitute it to the benefit of a tiny group of #Supranational #Nietzschean #Elite #Scions.

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

The Marxist Tradition

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=z6szCMhrSPM

#Prof #Wolff discusses the #history and #diversity of #Marxist #theories and #practices that comprise the Marxist #tradition. Wolff also explores why #Marxism draws renewed interest #globally now. Finally, a detailed examination shows how some #basic-insights from Marx's work are especially relevant to victims and critics of today's #capitalism and especially to those who seek transition to another, better system.

#richardwolff #rdwolff #economic-update #democracyatwork #themarxisttradition #karlmarx #psychology #politics #economics

Economic Update: The Marxist Tradition

**Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.demo**Stay connected with the latest news from d@w. Join our mailing list today: https://www.democracyatwork.info/sign_up [S13 E14] The Marxist Tradition In...

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