and are the enlightened centrists in the room with us now?
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If they're exclusively supporting the right wing candidate, they're not a centrist, then
Centrism within the context of an exclusively right-wing overton window is always going to functionally be right wing.
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Aren't there dedicated communities for political memes? I blocked those for a reason. Why is more and more politics bleeding over to here?
Everything is political, there is no such thing as a non-political meme.
Either way, there's a comm for less political memes
Politicize this.
the wizard class being fearfull of the rise of the burning skeletal deer fascists
Don't bring Zizek into this, let the lava buck skeleton talk.
Soviets discovering Hitler's burned up corpse, 1945, colorized
Dialectically, the wizard class is fearful of the rising cryptid underclass.
Damn. Well done.
Thanks!
I think like... Rocks aren't political, until communities of humans arrive and start talking about rocks and using language to describe rocks. A rock that humans have never interacted with isn't political, until people start using it as an example of what is and isn't political. Sort of like quantum but for concepts and relationships being perceived by communities of people.
Why did I write this?
Rocks aren’t political
They are engaged in a billions years of unending (if slow) political geology conflict, with solution being games of scissor, rocks and paper, but with constant draws because they are rocks.
Rocks are dialectical when they bash against one another, just as I bash my head against every other leftist.
France is speedrunning this right now. Any time a liberal claims to be antifascist, ask them to explain why they think fascism exists and where it comes from, materially.
To be fair, if liberals were capable of material analysis then they would no longer be liberals.
What does "material analysis" means in this context? What should I search to know more? I searched the term and only came up with chemistry topics.
My original comment is meant to refer to the concept of Materialism, which contains the concepts of Marxist Dialectical and Historical Materialism. Materialism is a "reality-focused" branch of philosophy and analysis, contrasted with Idealism, which is idea-focused.
The connection to liberalism and fascism is because Liberalism is Idealist as opposed to Materialist. The Liberal answer to "where does fascism come from?" Would be "demagogues like Trump rising to power, racism, xenophobia, etc," yet when you ask why those ideas are present or not present, the Liberal cannot answer genuinely.
For Marxists, fascism is a consequence of Capitalism's decline, resulting in the Petty Bourgeois elements of society, ie the "Middle Class," sliding into worse conditions and allying with the Bourgeoisie against the Proletariat. In the Weimar Republic, Capitalism was declining and genuine Communism was gaining steam, with the KPD at the forefront and the SPD representing the moderate Socialists, so fascism gained power as a reaction. Communism and Socialism gained appeal among the Lower Classes while fascism gained power among the Liberals, ie the Middle and Upper Classes.
The other works listed by other commenters are great, but my personal favorite work on the subject is Elementary Principles of Philosophy.
In Nazi Germany
Weimar Republic
Yes, misspoke. Was refering to the eventual rise of the Nazis, not their period of control. Has been corrected now, thanks.
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Simply put, materialism — as opposed to idealism — is the idea that everything we do and experience as a society (our history, culture, politics, etc) is shaped by the material reality around us, rather than ideas.
"Material analysis" in this case therefore means analysing politics and history through this lens. And it's a fundamental component of socialism/marxism.
⠀Simple diagram of how our material reality shapes our society
Yogthos is insulting liberals because liberalism is an idealist ideology that always eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is (inevitably) in decay.
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Necessary reading.
You could start here though.
The latter is probably a little easier to digest/dip your toes in. The former is the answer to your question.
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Fair, lol