Always put some we in that ball
kwomp2
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In einer Gesellschaftsordnung, die an individualisierung des eigentlich gemeinsamen krankt, sind individuelle Kaufentscheidungen auch keine mächtige Methode etwas zu machen.
Die "Freiheit" des Marktes kann kollektive politische Prozesse nicht ersetzen.
Also wenn wir das "privat" in Privatperson nicht überwinden, kann es nichts werden.
Da setzt du positivistische Maßstäbe an, wo sie nicht hingehören. Würde man diese an alle Erkenntnis anlegen, würde ein riesiger Teil unseres Verstehens der sozialen Welt als HokusPokus erscheinen.
Armin? Lasch et einfach sein
"Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied" als kontrafaktischer Grundkonsens und Kernprinzip der Gesellschaftsordnung
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Eine Gesellschaftsordnung die zu Prekarisierung führt
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wenn du als Mann nicht stark bist, bist du nichts wert
= bestes Rezept für Feindseligkeit, Schuldigensuche, Stärkegefühl durch Gewalt und Ausgrenzung
I think it was not only those material conditions but also a deterministic ideology or maybe just power hungry leaders. (Good cue for taking the democracy part very serious from the beginning, because non or semi-democratic structures attract and create dictator-subjects, and projecting yourself outside that dialectic is as naive as it is arrogant)
Shooting thousands (or hundreds of thousands, as my hasty wikipedia research suggests) of the opposition, both left and right, is no matter of slow industrialization.
Admittedly I'n not fit in soviet history, but the combo of "oh they had democratic infrastructure" and secret deportation, incarceration and murder of even leftist opposition doesn't sit right. And honestly, calling that "not perfect" feels like violation of emancipatory writing of history and way of living.
Thanks. I read the tayangyu essay, and kinda liked it, but it didn't really answer my questions..
Isn't the author leaving the framework of dialectical thinking when they dismiss the relevance of ideas almost entirely in favor of material economical factors?
As in: Couldn't have the development of productive forces happened with more participation?
Wouldn't than the emergence of a democratic or collective subject have been faaaar more likely, even though and because people would have been confronted with the limits of economic development, as agents, not just as objects of that one and only party's decisions?
Okay sorry regarding stalin i mixed that up. It's in the other reading list in the comments here.
On "conduct yourself" dunno, maybe this boils down to writing style. But the ML sort of theoretical style plus the horrors of undemocratic socialist history do make it important to stress the emphatic (as in: since critical theory and french subjectivity theory we debunked "individual freedom", but still need to keep it as a goal) part of personal freedom & choice. That wording above doesn't show that kind of self reflection imo.
Gramsci! The concepts of hegemony and "senso commune" (sry dont know english translation) are essential to analyse current events. Also this protects lefties from babbling about classes in a way that alienates them from everyone just observing whats going on.
(Senso commune and gramscis notion of intellectuals also offers a neat way through the whole "get educated since otherwise you fundamentally don't understand your own life"- rhethoric dilemma/arrogance issue)
You need secondary literature for gramsci though. He left 3000 pages of unstructured notes from fascist prison. You don't wanna go through that. Unfortunetly I have no idea of english publications. Barfuss & Jehle Einführung is nice, in case you speak german.
Just wrote this somewhere else. Maybe this is where it belongs: Good impulse to read theory, but 150y/o theory is not where I'd advice people to start. At least the german originals of what you recomend there are fairly hard to read. Plus they lack the development of marxist theory that happened since then. For example Gramscis thoughts or critical theory are so freakin important for marxism to be applicable to this society being far more diverse than good'ol working class in the factory vs. Monopoly man capitalists. I'm sure there is updated marxism and introductions available in english. (Dunno, Harvey maybe? Mayo?)
Also "how to conduct yourself as a leftist" sound strict af and kinda deterministic.
Plus there is no need to give stalin's voice that kind of space.
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