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HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
23. i couldn't read past this:
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 04:14 AM
Jun 2012

The problem with most radical anti-capitalist literature aimed at mass audiences is the inherent assumption that the reader is too dumb to understand the complexities of political and economic power. This leads propagandists to make reference to “capitalists,” “capital,” or “capitalism” as if referring to an individual or an entity made up of a small number of people who coordinate and direct the workings of vast social, political, and economic systems. There is a reason that Marxist/communist/anti-capitalist propaganda has essentially failed as a lasting means to directing the consciousness of large numbers of people: its simplistic formulas are easily undermined by complicated realities, and by the fragmented nature of capitalism as a world system lacking in a single identifiable center of power. When “the masses” try to understand the impact capitalism has on their lives, unless they’re anti-semitic fruitcakes who adore Alex Jones and believe the world is run by shape-shifting lizard descendants of the Knights Templar who present as Jewish bankers, they don’t envision their bosses sitting in a room with the CEOs of Anheuser-Busch and Countrywide hatching a plot to keep them in servitude.

Those who oppose capitalism need to develop new strategies that take account of the proclivities of the contemporary audience and are not proven failures (as is the case with propaganda tactics derived from the mid-twentieth century) to direct people’s attention to the underlying factor that allows the capitalist world system to operate as it does: capitalist ideology. The historical moment at which the long-term endurance of capitalism was cemented was the moment at which people came to believe that every facet of human reality could be quantified and reduced to a mathematical expression. And I do mean “believe,” in the sense that those responsible for capitalism’s development trusted that, despite the fact that abstract concepts such as labor resisted being reduced to numerical tallies, all it would take to tame the world and bring everything under their mental, and hence material, control was for someone to devise the appropriate means to quantify the as yet unquantifiable. Figuring out how to “count” and assign monetary value to labor opened the door to the commodification of nearly every aspect of human existence.


I found the writing dull & stupid & the author likewise. Long-winded & saying nothing of interest.

So let me get this right; lumberjack_jeff Jun 2012 #1
How much of her blog have you read? FrodosPet Jun 2012 #2
+1. nt seabeyond Jun 2012 #4
Just this post. lumberjack_jeff Jun 2012 #5
It is very representative. FrodosPet Jun 2012 #6
I've noticed all the arguments on the damage of porn are entirely 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #3
How about this relationship? Confusious Jun 2012 #7
There was a thread on that 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #10
Wasn't my thread, Confusious Jun 2012 #11
Porn Part 8: Rights vs. Privileges FrodosPet Jun 2012 #13
"men do not have a right to use pornography" 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #14
And your article here is about 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #15
I may be wrong, I don't want to speak for her FrodosPet Jun 2012 #19
If so she makes little indication 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #20
It's really not any different than saying 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #21
Allowing porn does not make a country good or bad regarding its treatment of women. Confusious Jun 2012 #22
^THIS^ nt hifiguy Jun 2012 #8
Uses buzzwords Confusious Jun 2012 #9
this baloney needs a lot of mustard lol nt msongs Jun 2012 #12
you say you are drawing attention to a "rad fem" site but you're linking to a right-wing site HiPointDem Jun 2012 #16
Are we looking at the same site? FrodosPet Jun 2012 #18
i couldn't read past this: HiPointDem Jun 2012 #23
I found it! I finally found concrete evidence that porn causes harm 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #17
Here's a gem from another essay on that site: cemaphonic Jun 2012 #24
Wouldn't that make any job slavery? 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #25
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