DialecticalWaves

i dunno i feel like one of the most common lib posts is 'this isnt capitalism anymore its something new and THIS is the real bad thing' when really its just capitalism functioning normally

yup marx is absolutely right here. did you understand what i said? capital pursuit of state power is in service of the pursuit of accumulation. it doesnt contradict anything marx said in that passage or in any other that im aware of.

marxism fails instantly when you realize people sometimes put worms on hooks to catch fish instead of takin a big ol bite out of that delicious juicy worm theyve already got

this is just a false dichotomy. the seeking of state power serves profit seeking. marx understood very well that capital accumulates through political structures which youd know if you read marx instead of asking ai to find you a quote marx made that sounds like it supports your point

'math', as you say, is a modern tool to extract surplus value but it isnt the foundation. capital accumulation is and always has been built on exploitation. obscuring that exploitation is good for capital

capital somehow managed to take over and dominate the world well before the bureau of labor statistics published their first jobs report. some sectors may rely on that data but the long term goal of the bourgeoisie is maintaining their control

there isn't really a contradiction between maintaining white supremacy and serving capital interests. white supremacy is constitutive of racial capitalism (read Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson)

i think you got confused somehow? capital depends on obscuring exploitation. in this sense the trump white house is serving capital very well by undermining faith in economic data. there's no contradiction there

an unfortunate amount of people

"capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty and proven the most effective economic system for the betterment of living conditions"

weird how it didnt do that for the first 300 years of its existence, waiting instead for the existence of the ussr and rise of the ccp to get started on that

i think the emphasis has to be on the profit part. the work of millions of artists is vacuumed up to create tools that replace them in order to generate private profit. millions of artists own works are weaponized against them.

tapping the sign again

jamesons description of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism is so devastatingly accurate

this is literally one of the first things marx and engels explain in the communist manifesto lmao. "Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this
distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms."

this is an overly rigid interpretation. social existence is broader than that. gramsci's explanation of cultural hegemony shows how social relationships like your church your union and your family shape how class position is lived and how this generates false consciousness

it is incoherent to treat ones social relationships as divorced from material position yeah. but if its grounded materially in the way i explained then i think it works as a paraphrase of marx. man's social existence determines his consciousness

this is all correct and totally consistent with marxist analysis. but note that social relations have a material basis and that cultural hegemony operates through material institutions

i think you mightve stumbled into the marxist position by arguing against a strawman of marxism

that doesnt answer the question. what determines which ideologies 'dominate that space'?

what determines which ideologies proliferate in a society?

why isnt the idea that its natural for a lord to dominate their serfs very prevalent anymore?

do you think the fall of feudalism and change of economic base might be relevant?

im sure the bourgeoisie will be persuaded to cease existing as a class if enough people ask really nicely

is it possible for high gdp to coexist with extreme exploitation, alienation, and inequality?

if high gdp is the result of capitalist imperialist core states relying on actively extracting wealth and resources from the global south, does that prove capitalism works or just exports its problems?

is it really necessary that i use less academic language when im discussing theory with a fellow leftist? there cant be more than a handful of people reading this if that

yeah what you describe there is a mechanism of cultural hegemony. capital structurally reinforces ideas which naturalize its domination and accumulation. if you recognize that this is a structural problem, why do you think the solution is just that communists should be nicer?

most leftists would talk about cultural hegemony, deliberate ideological warfare, historical distortions, and media complicity. you know, materialist analysis

maybe you are legitimately committed to anticapitalism but your framework remains trapped in liberal subjectivity

i didnt say you were secretly anything. i said i was skeptical you were a leftist. even if your explanation about why communism is widely misunderstood here is accurate (to be clear its not) your analysis here is steeped in liberal idealism

you can read my post again, its still there and i explained why im skeptical of you. most leftists would probably not say the reason theres confusion about communism is because of posts on bluesky

as a biden-trump voter let me give you advice about how to get the word out about communism

just based on what youve said in this thread im very skeptical that you're actually a leftist. the reason theres so much misunderstanding about communism is probably not because of nerdjpg.com on bluesky