People like The frankfurt school, foucault, baudrillard, existencialism mark fisher etc. are much more important in the current context, that is the status of the working class as consumers, and not so much as exploited workers like in the 19th century. You should all pay less attention to old marxist literature once you got a solid socialist base (knowing concept liek dialectic materialism, alienation, fetichization, knowing aboutn anarchism, history of socialism, basic economic functioning…) and start directly with these 20th century authors, which make the most solid of the currents critiques and, more importantly, make you grow as an individual, purging yourself from capitalist realist mindset.
Theory priority
Joseph Sanchez
Parker Phillips
Theory without a strong empirical basis is worthless anyway.
Brandon Turner
what do you mean by this, id like you to elaborate more than just a sentence
Ryder James
Mark Fisher is garbage he had zero useful contributions and is only liked because he committed suicide
Jonathan Turner
mark fisher was a hack and this post is gibberish
Brandon Long
Leo Garcia
Owen Green
Indeed, with the contradictions of capitalism on full display, the ruling class needs all the obsucurantist intellectual masturbation that it can get in order to divert attention from class conflict. Case in point:
Keep up the good, patriotic work, OP!
Jace Gomez
Hey guys did you know that Marx's unfinished project that was distorted by both its editors and translators has the perfect description of the unchanging nature of capitalism which will never become obsolete, needs no errata and is flawless in every possible way?
Daniel Hall
user i dont think i expect too much when i ask for an argument, some kind of serious debate for once, not a meme bullshit to try make fun of me, what the hell do you think is this, some kind of socialist kindergarten? well, you could say it is, but thats only because of ignorant posts like you made, so stop or at least lurk moar.
what a solid critique of a recognized author, gj.
would you please define what is or isnt a useful contribution?
how can you expect to fight a system without a deep analysis of it?
you seem to make a case for more focus on class conciousness (correct me if im wrong), but how are we going to build it up without deeply analyzing how its growth is surpressed like mark fisher and the frankfurt school did?
and this is just an example, the revolution will not be given to you in a simple way, its not as simple as going in the streets and shouting the communist manifesto to a crowd of people, an established system cant be dismantled this easely, even if we started a revolution right now, everybody would keep their capitalist mindset and any attempt of an alternative system would fail. Things are not as simple as you are making them look like.
i dont understand how that sentence you quoted from me can be defined as patriotic