for example Althusser

and Lenin yeah

some people are like anything before the german ideology, no thank you

lol

I'm just not that well read so it's hard for me to know what's going on

Same.

I guess I'll have to dig deeper than this shit.

hahahaha the blind leading the blind here

Well, I try to look up marxist videos

trying to get the contexts

and what not

oh yeah for sure. audiobooks are sick also. i actually speak german i could read marx in german

das nice

tried the audiobook it went ok

lambo DAS nice

what's your strand of marxism/politics? we don't have flairs here I'm sad

I'm probably a regular ML

But Maoism has concepts that are interesting

I should dig deeper in that realm

What about you?

I'm a Baudrillardian but no one says that. People think of it as postmodernism but what's beyond concepts (the ineffable) is really important to me so it makes it hard to say.

But I definitely want a social revolution, something like global governance even if its not a state, no war, everyone has enough, and we just shit post and travel the stars

lmao

Do you have brief explanation on what Baudrillardian tenets they stand on?

Well different people might emphasize different things

basically he picks up on Bataille and Mauss ideas about giving gifts as the basis for economics

Ah

we are wanting to give the best gift because it shows we are powerful, so similar to Foucault's biopolitics the powerful are so because they "give us" our captive lives here

And so he criticized Marx for thinking the economic is at the bottom of everything, although then Marxists will say Baudrillard misunderstood how Marx meant that

Economics the bottom of everything?

my angle isn't that I need to prove Marx is wrong or anything Baudrillard is just what got me to where I am now *shrugs*

Giving gifts? Essentially more welfare and care for the citizens?

Like less proletarian oriented.

haha long before welfare

But go on for a more pragmatic approach?

Enlighten me

well for example people get together and form social relationships, eventually there's a new generation and you are leaving things to them

Uphold Keynsianism-Baudrillardianism

this is beyond economics becuase there must be some reason you align your interest with your children even though you will die

What if i dont have children

Well then you are still locked in a gift relationship because your parents gave you life and their ancestors to them and so on