You know how scientists will breed knockout animals, such as mosquitoes, with certain disease-carrying genes “knocked out”, with the idea that they’ll outcompete the natural variant in the wild and deny the pathogen a vector to spread? That’s how I see western marxism. Capital’s intellectual science project of creating a “marxism” incapable of threatening it in the real world, but that they could massively fund to occupy all the niches they wanted to deny to communists. The more explicitly political arm of all that Gloria Steinem, Jackson Pollock type shit. A controlled subculture used to misdirect the revolutionary potential of the many points of struggle at that time, pacifying them into navel-gazing individualism by stoking their intellectual chauvinism on the one hand and invoking the image of the authoritarian bad communist on the other, conditioning the culture to produce Chomskies and Zizeks instead of Lenins and Maos.
sometimes, it feels like western marxism is as such a degraded state that it can be better described as half-step-marxism.
You know how scientists will breed knockout animals, such as mosquitoes, with certain disease-carrying genes “knocked out”, with the idea that they’ll outcompete the natural variant in the wild and deny the pathogen a vector to spread? That’s how I see western marxism. Capital’s intellectual science project of creating a “marxism” incapable of threatening it in the real world, but that they could massively fund to occupy all the niches they wanted to deny to communists. The more explicitly political arm of all that Gloria Steinem, Jackson Pollock type shit. A controlled subculture used to misdirect the revolutionary potential of the many points of struggle at that time, pacifying them into navel-gazing individualism by stoking their intellectual chauvinism on the one hand and invoking the image of the authoritarian bad communist on the other, conditioning the culture to produce Chomskies and Zizeks instead of Lenins and Maos.