Oh look ad homs from a tankie.

It’s a common strategy for political and media operatives to support weak primary candidates in the opposing party.

I’m just gonna link a comment I made months back:

“The guy is clearly an idiot, maybe he means well but again that is irrelevant. This has Republican hit job written all over it from the get-go, I wouldn’t be surprised if Collins team found out about the tattoo (before he even decided to run) and directed “political technicians” to infiltrate his social circle and subtly nudge this guy to run, consequently becoming an unwitting accomplice to sabotage a genuine left-wing movement.”

https://lemmy.zip/comment/22299643

Vance is Dark Enlightenment, the plan going in was Trump to serve as chaos agent to dismantle democracy and then scapegoated (mimetic theory) after the destruction was complete. Vance would then step in to “rebuild” a utopian society from the ashes as Peter Thiel envisioned. The presupposition here is that democracy is effectively ended, it’s not working as planned and they would hold off until after midterms before impeach/25th Trump to maximize success in establishing whatever technofeudal dystopia they’ve decided on.

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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-beast/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_theory

Historical materialism is unfalsifiable, it’s in the same category as praxeology. Junk science.

Marx version of conflict theory is similar to the claim that the sun revolves around the earth, inadequate.

The old theories are obsolete, the modes of production replaced by modes of representation. No matter how much you pray and recite your holy scripture, paradise never comes. Marxist theory is as relevant as phrenology.

Any form of socialism is not feasible without human consciousness evolving into some kind of singularity. You’ve already contradicted yourself and betrayed the principles of Marxism by claiming the proletariat would dominate the bourgeois. If socialism is about the worker owning the means of production, there is no bourgeois class, except for the worker. In the real world, all you get is some type of authoritarian state capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy

Ahh yes, the proletariat rules over the bourgeois, but the proletariat are not smart enough to rule, so some enlightened elite must rule for them, let me guess, you? The closet aristocrat?

Vulgar Marxism, and history has already shown the masses are an inertial force. The ideal circumstances for socialism was last century, only dominance hierarchies formed.

Ideological delusions to think otherwise.

Are you a vulgar Marxist?

That makes sense.

I spelled out that it will collapse, what replaces it is eventually another dominance hierarchy if we escape extinction.

Sorry bucko, no socialist utopia in any future.

Capitalism falls to what? What replaces the system? Technofeudalism?

You are so propagandized you have no idea what I said, the type of system does not matter in so far as it is a dominance hierarchy.

It is impossible to conceive of fascism or Stalinism without propaganda – but capitalism can proceed perfectly well, in some ways better, without anyone making a case for it

Capitalist Realism, M. Fisher.

You didn’t read the book and yet claim you know the contents. Lol.

You should probably explain what you mean, because I already stated that ideological fantasy does not determine objective reality.

That is the exact opposite of “idealism” you dolt.

It was explicitly outlined in Marx’s writing. The dictatorship of the proletariat. As Žižek wrote in The Sublime Object of Ideology, “ideological fantasy creates social reality.” However, that social reality does not determine objective reality, merely how we interact with it. The Marxist position of achieving class consciousness is a falsehood, it is a presupposition that ignores human nature. There is no deeper philosophical meaning, the surface is the truth, the masses are an inertial force, an object not a subject. In a deterministic universe, all we have to do is look at past results to predict future outcomes.

A quote from my copy of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, “What is universally valid is also universally effective; what ought to be, in fact also is, and what ought to be without [actually] being, has no truth.”