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A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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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://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.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://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.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://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.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://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • 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

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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=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://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

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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
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>>2801447
What good would freeing him do?

>>2801447
Idk what Haz or AOC said about it, but these are the statements I found in a few minutes

>>2801438
The internet is a series of echo chambers, it’s the opposite of mass, it’s individualized content that’s neoliberal in form and in character

>>2801447
I thought he was in Colorado

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>>2801366
>I didn't even say anything schizo or incoherent
<equating criticism of online faggots with "left-communism"
<equating "leftcoms" with idpol libs
<rent free trans mention
<implying fed samefag out of nowhere
Not schizo or incoherent at all

>>2801178
>the CIA would NEVER infiltrate communist movements to divide and conquer. My employers are GOOD PEOPLE who have never oppressed ANYONE

>>2801357
I'm actually okay with this if Haz convinces this guy to stop being a rightoid and leave his meth and crack addiction.

>>2801363
copypasta?

>>2801500
Probably just some fool in a parasocial relationship with youtubers

>>2801443
By boycotting Haz/Hinkle/the ACP leftist content creators are proving them right. "They are too afraid to debate us" seems true when they just try to give them either the silent treatment or just call them fascists which is really lazy. If Haz is really just some troglodyte fascist/Strasserist/Duginist shouldn't it be easy for people who make 1 hour video essays where they pretend to be smart and well-read to just push back or debunk them? Vijay Prashad didn't know Hinkle, had a completely normal discussion with him, and then his leftoid audience scolded him and he had to soyrage about Hinkle for no fucking reason.

Mark Fisher's Vampire Castle is an old work now, but still relevant I guess. It looks really bad for online leftists to be afraid of the ACP when IRL communists have no problems marching with them, even Trots, as recently shown in a joined ACP/RCA rally.

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>>2800373
Hasan was already making in excess of $250k monthly average on Twitch back in 2021. That didn't count donations back then and is just one source of income. No doubt he has many investments and his family has the means to manage a large fortune like that. He's probably far richer than most people picture him.

And given how much of a DNC asset he's turned out to be, unsurprisingly, I'd bet on Hasan is gonna be on a tight leash during this trial period. I dunno if that leash is made of child rape, but there is certainly gonna be something, if he intends to keep climbing the DNC ladder.

>>2801178
>>2801189
The CIA has no ideological red lines, only American hegemony. They happily fund communists when it suits their political goals, although they would prefer some fascist contras but such types are not always available with popular support (and even the CIA can't just magically create that, at least not in the short term, they can over decades of infiltration, like the Ukrainian nationalist movement that took power in 2014).

Global South communists are not holy saints who are immune to be instrumentalized. The Communist Party of Iraq supported the 2003 American invasion.

>>2801526
I agree with this, ACP are tailist and opportunist but just for the other bourgeois party. Which I think is a necessary, it creates pressure on both fronts and forces the bourgeois to have to combat socialism and anti-imperialsim from every side.

>>2801526
Leftoids would rather see the Republicans in power for the next 100 years than the ACP to be in power for 8, which says everything.

>>2801531
I had hopes for Hasan when Trump's second term started, he seemed genuinely upset and done with the Dems. Now at the midterms he is running around campaigning uncritically for the likes of Cory Bush. Sad.

Just watch his interview with Varoufakis, Varoufakis is neither super radical nor super principled, and he genuinely asks him why he even tries to influence the Dems, he had no answer.

>>2801526
>Guise you need to invite the person who shat on the pool again, to the party
>Otherwise you are proving them right, when they shit themselves on pools
Except you have already invited them a dozen times. And the fucker keeps shitting the pool for clout on social media.

>>2801534
I mean, I can endlessly critique the dumb things Haz has said and written over the years, but I give the ACP this: They are young and motivated, and don't give a shit about political correctness, which is more than I can say for CPUSA (which kinda vanished from the face of the earth since like two years or so?) or the PSL (which invited neocon Kat Abrakadabrachewbacka to the People's Forum). Obviously for a proper representation of the American people, they need more women to stave off the incel allegations and generally some people from more diverse backgrounds, most of their photos are like five white dudes in suits.

I'm willing to give them a chance, why not, we don't have the luxury of being choosey, and I saw some decent people in the ACP who do not display Haz's and Hinkle's whacky mannerisms.

>>2801526
>By boycotting Haz/Hinkle/the ACP leftist content creators are proving them right. "They are too afraid to debate us" seems true when they just
The reason they do this is because they're trying to get attention and advertise their org and gain recruits. Haz and Hinkle are streamers (and also provocateurs) who are competing with the other leftist "content creators" for the same audience. So the other "content creators" can either have them on even though they're directly competing with each other or ignore them which they'll use to say people are afraid of them.

>as recently shown in a joined ACP/RCA rally.

Well it's very unlikely they planned that together, like you know how these things happen, they just showed up to the same May Day march. In my experience (albeit very particular and locally) it has always been kind of goofy because the AFL-CIO would actually organize the May Day event and bring out a crowd of (predominantly middle-aged, black) members of the AFT and SEIU and then six different Marxist groups would show up, each with maybe five people. I came away with the impression that the more of these groups there are, the less relevant it all is politically.

>>2801538
Haz debated some leftists when he was still just a streamer. Now, when he's a bit more serious with the ACP and stuff, he gets boycotted but not criticized properly, the only substantial critique I saw was that long-ass article from this Geese Magazine.

Controversy also brings viewers and popularity. If Haz would go on The Deprogram podcast or on Hasan it would go super viral, stir a lot of constructive debate, I do believe that.

Instead he has to go on some crackhead neonazi podcast like that of Jake Shields, which nobody really has the nerve to watch for two hours straight.

>>2801540
>The reason they do this is because they're trying to get attention and advertise their org and gain recruits.
and this is le bad?

>>2801543
I mean it makes sense for them, but if you weren't in the ACP then why would you have them on.

Breakthrough News for example is a PSL outfit. Why would they advertise an org that is trying to poach their membership.

>>2801540
>The reason they do this is because they're trying to get attention and advertise their org and gain recruits.
Like every other content creator who is a front for the organization they are part of? BE is also a massive provocateur, albeit he has no organization he's part of, and no responsibility in that regard. Also I think you are exaggerating, they provoke but in their individual streams (Infrared with Haz, Legitimate Targets with Hinkle) they don't shill for the ACP nearly as intense and you seem to insinuate.
>So the other "content creators" can either have them on even though they're directly competing with each other
When they have no organization behind them they only compete with viewers, and more often than not they are shared mutually and boosted mutually when you have such a persona non grata like Haz on.
>Well it's very unlikely they planned that together, like you know how these things happen, they just showed up to the same May Day march
I'm not American but from my organizational experience it is almost always discussed beforehand with whom you march, in what block you march, etc. - often in excruciating detail, even in autonomous/anarchistic groups, let alone Leninist cadre organizations. We had two hour debates in my party whether or not we would march in a block with a particular group.

>>2801547
Because their org has been fucking successful?

>>2801551
>I'm not American but from my organizational experience it is almost always discussed beforehand with whom you march, in what block you march, etc.
Then people seem much more organized and discerning where you're from. I think in the U.S. the reality is more often that the Marxist groups just show up at the march and pull out signs. The labor people in my city couldn't even get enough people for a march so they'd have a rally / event in a park and different groups would set up tents and tables with their literature on it, and there was some coordination there because the groups would pay a small fee to the AFL-CIO for a space (except one of the Trot groups which promised to pay and then didn't lol).

>>2801552
>Because their org has been fucking successful?
Tbh I used to care more about the differences between these groups, but now these groups more and more look pretty similar to me. I'm talking about the sectarian left. There being just another Marxist sect that marches around with Stalin banners and is hostile to all the other ones isn't really anything different.

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>>2801551
>even in autonomous/anarchistic groups, let alone Leninist cadre organizations.
Haha, what? it can get worse!?!?

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hasan haters stand proudly on the side of AIPAC zionism

>>2801581
Nick Fuentes is more of a threat to the system than Hasan

>>2801593
Neither is

>>2801593
neither nick fuentes, nor hasan, nor epsteiny

>>2801581
AIPAC knows well if they promote a liberal zionist democrat collaborator as a "extremist" they are siphoning attention from actual ""left wing extremists"" (Read: marxist-leninists/maoists/anti-revisionists).
They ofc know hasan is a ziodog grifter but still keep attacking him because he is part of a approved compatible left instead of actual leftists

>>2801635
That isn't going on in their minds at all, this seems like something someone with little theory of mind thinks. Zogdogs think that Hasan and Mamdami would actually bring forth woke Sharia Law.

>>2801635
dude maoists, mls/anti-revisionists are nothing, no one cares about them, if they were a threat they'd already be destroyed

>>2801639
>if they were a threat they'd already be destroyed
<implying that those 80-60 years of anti-communist thought on academia, anti-communist propaganda and deturpation of communist thoughts done by communist parties following revisionism, were a indication that the bourgeoise didnt saw the vanguard party a threat

>>2801539
Once again im agreeing, expect for the women part. The best case scenario for the ACP is recreating the trump 2024 coalition. Young unemployed or underemployed men, the uneducated and small business tyrants. If the ACP could bring those people along in a united front with the DSAs coaltion then we got an actual political party with weight behind that could challenge both parties and or organize outside the election system itself. They can be the DSA-ACP party and the do like the democrat-republican and divorce afterwards but im at the point of backing anyone that can challenge the republocrat criminal cartel. The American political landscape for the last 40 years has been

>do you want woke austerity/imperialism or unwoke austerity/imperialism.


It's would be a billion times better if we could have woke socialism/anti-imperlisim vs unwoke socialism/anti-imperialism jnstead.

>>2801660
None of that will happen and you need to go outside

>>2801558
>except one of the Trot groups which promised to pay and then didn't lol

They decided not to pay once the iPad got flipped around they asked for a tip lmao

>>2801423
well I didn't want to listen to the podcast, but given how ridiculous became this conversation, after listen to it, you can see why no one invites them to a podcast:
Haz:
>34:59
>people are confused about what communism is. So, communism is, first of all, a guiding principle. It's not necessarily
>a specific form of how society is um is organized in the sense of like uh it
>looks a certain way specifically. It's more like it's run in a certain way.
> It's not necessarily a specific form of how society is um is organized ??????
It's the dictatorship of the proletariat, it's necessarily a specific form of how society is organized.

to be honest, it's pure cacophony. I can't withstand psue intellectualism disguised as communist rhetoric, made to appease a specific spectrum of the society, that will simply create a brown-red alliance.

>>2801443
>While lefty podcasts are more concerned with optics and moralizing?

no, actual communist spaces recognize bullshit.
As I quoted here:
>>2801715


>>2801447
I haven't seen the acp organizing a rally for the release of Maduro in New York.
Have they?

>>2801581
what a load of bullcrap. literally the congress passed a resolution to condemn Hasan. nick fuentes? nimarata nikki randhawa haley's son uses a hoodie of nick fuentes while hanging out with tucker carlson.
the powerful doesn't use Hasan's Piker merch.

>>2801531
he already declared that america's main contradiction is race war.
he's a pseud, and a pseud only.

>>2801727
And he’s correct, you cannot divorce class from racial politics in any settler colonial country, which is why they’re the most reactionary and biggest bulwarks against socialism


>>2801778
America’s Bachir Gemayel

>>2801773
USA isnt a settler colonial country. It was one, but its done, it has been fully settled and colonised well over a century ago.

>>2801786
There are still reservations and there is still ongoing land theft and exploitation

>>2801778
>A Just Russia
Famously known for advertising itself as the party that doesn't just sit there with their hands folded with a pic of one of their politicians sitting there with his hands folded.

>>2801773
idpol shit.

>>2801836
It’s not really idpol when these identity markers end up with very material effects

>>2801789
Not exactly a matter of national importance anymore. Cmon, dont be disingenuous.


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