/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Even if they didn't get funded by the CIA they would still be retarded academics who discuss the most irrelevant minutia of capitalist society: ideology and the many forms it takes.

>how much hate the guy gets online from other academics and podcasters/commentators
Yeah I wouldn't put any weight at all to such parasites. Not that I know whether Gabriel Rockhill isn't just another one or not.

>>2668549
He cites some FOIA documents that he got declassified as well as research done by journalists to show how Arendt or Marcuse had direct ties with intelligence, and in exchange for the monetary benefits they received they were meant to disavow Marxism and even their previous writings. This to me is one of the more important facets of his book because it also specifically mentions how French theorists like Foucault and Deleuze also took this poison pill; which to me is hard to believe because many of my Uni friends who dickride Deleuze (for example) consider themselves to be radicals. But, like you said, splitting hairs and creating parallel structures of analysis seems like it is used mainly to create rifts within left politics to take attention from dialectical materialism.

>>2668562
Foucault only quit whatever communist party he was in because his peers were homophobic and Deleuze only had good things to say about Marx until his accidental death, but at the end of the day they were still only philosophers.

>splitting hairs and creating parallel structures of analysis seems like it is used mainly to create rifts within left politics to take attention from dialectical materialism
First off, "dialectical materialism" is not a thing. The dialectic is literally just science. Also, the reason is far baser than that, it's just academics trying to carve their own niche so they can maintain their career publishing texts and selling bullshit books.

I find myself agreeing more and more with what Marx had to say about philosophy (in few words: "philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned") whenever I encounter philosophycels online.

>>2668562
I don't think it'd be fair to say that EVERY philosopher who gets lumped in with "poststructuralism" or "Continental philosophy" even (both meaningless arbitrary categories) is a CIA op but there are a few like Marcuse and Arendt who almost certainly were at least indirectly enabled by the CIA.

t. Deleuze dickrider

Yes it's known that the CIA funded leftists

>>2668623
Read Marcuse's wikipedia, he was literally employed by the intel agency that preceded the CIA. He was a glowie.

>>2668625
I've hardly engaged with Marcuse or most "poststructuralism" and Frankfurt School stuff beyond Deleuze and Benjamin because most of it is useless crypto-liberal obscurantism but that's fucking hilarious

>>2668532
From his lectures and stuff he's pretty based, tho I haven't read his books yet.

>but man I was shocked by how much hate the guy gets online from other academics and podcasters/commentators
Not surprising tbh