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CORE THEORY >The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord📖 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin📖 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer📓 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault📖 •
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard 📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze 📖 •
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida📖 •
https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory📖 •
Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm📺 •
Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30📖 •
Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of
History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm📺 •
Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI 📖 •
Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm📺 •
Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo📖 •
Louis Althusser -
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm📺 •
Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries•
The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA•
Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I•
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc•
HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)•
We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y•
Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg•
The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs•
Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw•
The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives•
https://situationist.org/•
https://notbored.org/SI.html•
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS•
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/•
Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys•
Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing 450 posts and 127 image replies omitted.>>2856881Well there is a realistic 4k gore mod that I think you need to be a psycho to enjoy, it has all the correct organs spilling out and everything instead of the bethesda comedy gore where people explode in fleshy bits
>>2856881did you just now realise that america is a freaky puritan society that hates sex and loves violence
>>2856887all thanatos no eros
>>2856823this dude should just write a tom clancy-esque novel and that's it, cause all I'm getting from what he's saying is
>war/conflict is messy and probably more nuanced than you could imaginewhite vs non-white race war would be cleaner cut because it's not just a racial issue, at least in america, it's also a cultural issue (which is something he sort of alludes to).
>mass report this videowhy? he's just babbling, honestly.
>>2856771daily reminder that ethan won't sue anyone who has accused him of molesting his kids because the truth is considered an absolute defense in defamation cases.
>>2856533his dad is funny as fuck. instant hero of socialist labor award after the revolution.
>>2857028lmao the way he tries to flex how hard he's been working on his podcast bullshit, pathetic
The Situation is Crazy
>>2857054Another depressing back story to a funny racist Indian meme.
Jason Unruhue Groyper
>>2857028>Daniel Denvir Damn hasan looks old
>>2857093This is waht happens when men fear getting out the closet, and I'm not talking about Hinkle.
>>2857028socdems are subhuman
>>2857093This is giving ᴉuᴉlossnW energy.
>>2857168hinkle lacks the latinx energy benito had
>>2857054Every x user is getting reprogrammed by Musk, it's pretty blatant looking from outside in. No you're not in control over the manner in which the algorithm is unleashed on your psyche. You're dopamine compromised and being manipulated. Every meme and discourse coming out of there is nazi in some way shape or another and every """Marxist""" on there is turned into a social fascist and Popular Frontist libtool of the US """progressive""" section (rainbow Mastercard) of the imperialist bourgeoisie.
Leave the fucking platform you crackheads.
>>2855637CHAZ, but trad and Marxist-lenninist
>>2857168>>2857173Uynghas are critizising the ACP in the most retarded ways possible.
>>2857018Self-identifying as a neoliberal is so embarrassing that it's not surprising that r/neoliberal would turn into a neoliberal bashing sub.
>>2857093>death before dishonor>yeah brah just like go and die to ensure that israel is stopped at any costnot even sure what side this dude is on but he's unironically trying to lead people to their doom.
>>2857266>dudes really be talking with an accent as stereotypical as apuevery dude out here thinks he can just spout nonsense but that's why jordan peterson exists dawg.
>>2857284That’s just what Indians from Mumbai sound like when speaking in English. Jordan Peterson has never mentioned Nick Land as far as I can tell, that’d be way too uncomfortable for him
>>2857284Burgers just have no awareness of outside cultures so they hear a funny accent and think it's a racist caricature. You can make an argument that it was inappropriate for Hank Azaria to do Apu's voice but it's not really exaggerated, certainly no more than the other cartoon voices were.
Tibetan man self immolated outside the UN building in NYC today to protest in support of a Free Tibet.
Not gonna link the vid of him burning alive here because idno what the rules on that are + I can only find a censored version anyway.
What do you think of that and the Tibet issue in general anons?
>>2857524Of course I am aware of the irony of getting called "lazy" by a bunch of idiots who's "job" is it to repeat whatever lies they are told to say for money.
Seriously, every accusation by a conservative is projection.
>>2857641There is no "tibet." Only colonizer say "tibet." Correct name is Xizang.
Man's gotta be retarded to set himself on fire in support of what? A CIA coup?
Like, there is something so pathetic about killing oneself not even as a misguided appeal to humanistic values of your fellow person. But as some sort of unpaid (and I fucking hope it was unpaid) stunt for the already rich and powerful, who have demonstrated to hold no such human qualities to maybe deign your agonizing death worthy of fitting in their schemes as a means of PR.
Honestly, whoever is grooming these schizos should go full time. they should move all the glow resources from mass shooters to this shit and present us with charred retard gore every single day. I want an assembly line of schizos killing themselves. The powerful are going to do as they want anyway, I just wanna see the useful idiots suffer for it.
Honestly, more of this.
Start grooming *all* the schizos to think their retarded goals are achieved through self immolation. Next time some retard wants to get back on their bully or "start a race war" or just get their five minutes of fame just have them kill themselves spectacularly. instead of shooting up some randoms.
That's right idealists, you can bring anything into reality if enough people see your eyeballs melt. It's all PR and culture war and psychology, yeah! Go for it. Materialism is fake and gay! You can change the world!
Maybe get the true sadists to kill each other, and the religious nuts to dress it up in ritual.Everybody wins, they rid us of themselves, and they do so in a suitably punishing manner. They also get to conserve their delusion to the end. No need for rehabilitation either.
>>2857641that only libs suck the the dick of a pedophile that worked for the cia (literally, cia's payroll), had like 800 servants only for his mansion, and had slavery in his domain very well until mid XX century; a.k.a. dalai lama.
this is what happens when you believe in Chinese anti-communists:
you get duped.
>>2857641>What do you think of that and the Tibet issue in general anons?Helps to look at it as a contradictory phenomenon I think.
First thing is that Tibet is extremely high altitude. People who are not acclimated to it need to bring oxygen tanks because you can get really sick and pass out and wind up in the hospital. It's potentially fatal. Go on a horseback ride, they said! (You can fucking die.) Commercial passenger planes have difficulty at these altitudes so a lot of visitors arrive from trains that slowly go up in altitude so you can get used to it. But even then you'll struggle a lot and won't be able to do a lot of things once you get there. The native population is genetically acclimated to it from living there for thousands of years. Tibetans also have darker skin because of high level of exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
I think there's probably more seperatist sentiment there than the Chinese government will admit (also their policy is to squash *any* discussion of it), because the place is so remote. That tends to foster a more distinct local culture and wariness of outsiders who are just "not from around here."
But on the other hand, people on leftypol will be, like, Tibet would be a feudal backwater if it weren't for China, and that's probably true as well. There's not even much agriculture because the climate is so extreme. Who will an independent Tibet trade with? China. On which transportation networks? Ones built by China. (Also the main Chinese rivers start there so China won't let Tibet go no matter what.) It's dependent on China for most things. There are Chinese who are a bit biased about it but they're like no seriously 90% of the Tibetan regional government's budget comes from Beijing. China doesn't have to be altruistic, but is an independent Tibet realistic or viable? Idk. They don't think so.
What was Stalin's take on nations? A historically constituted, stable community formed on the basis of a common language, territory, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. Tibet has all those things.
>But this is not all. Common territory does not by itself create a nation. This requires, in addition, an internal economic bond to weld the various parts of the nation into a single whole. There is no such bond between England and America, and so they constitute two different nations. But the Americans themselves would not deserve to be called a nation were not the different parts of America bound together into an economic whole, as a result of division of labour between them, the development of means of communication, and so forth.
>Take the Georgians, for instance. The Georgians before the Reform inhabited a common territory and spoke one language. Nevertheless, they did not, strictly speaking, constitute one nation, for, being split up into a number of disconnected principalities, they could not share a common economic life; for centuries they waged war against each other and pillaged each other, each inciting the Persians and Turks against the other. The ephemeral and casual union of the principalities which some successful king sometimes managed to bring about embraced at best a superficial administrative sphere, and rapidly disintegrated owing to the caprices of the princes and the indifference of the peasants. Nor could it be otherwise in economically disunited Georgia … Georgia came on the scene as a nation only in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the fall of serfdom and the growth of the economic life of the country, the development of means of communication and the rise of capitalism, introduced division of labour between the various districts of Georgia, completely shattered the economic isolation of the principalities and bound them together into a single whole.
>The same must be said of the other nations which have passed through the stage of feudalism and have developed capitalism.
>Thus, a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation.https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm>>2857641the tibet issue is just like the uyghur issue, the process of assimilation through capitalist economic intercourse is undoubtedly progressive. no reason for them to be apart
>>2857810white nationalists who are serious about their racism should realise its over and join the democrats. far right is browd coded now.
>>2857730USSR is gone. PRC shows that having autonomous regions is better than constantly tard wrangling SSRs and Warsaw Pact members.
i ended up getting KnowYourMeme editor privileges and decided to re-write/update the article on /leftypol/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/leftypol Could use some thoughts, suggestions, constructive critique, etc.
>>2856130how is he so based
>>2857641I support free tibet and free uyghurs against the fascist imperialist Chinese state since I think anything that weakens the imperialists is good.
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