at least as a means of preserving itself

Yeah capitalism always adapts

The issue is informing and educating people and awakening their consciousness to the system they live in.

Yeah so mass culture

Partially, capitalism sustains itself by the proletariat convincing the working class that capitalism actually benefits them, allowing the working class to dismiss the exploitation they face

is so good a form of propaganda

bourgeois oops

@Nicholas91 which in itself is a product of capitalism

which is what makes it hard for leftists to capture mainstream attention

Well it's so good that people police themselves politically

@Uriel Well these adaptations do benefit the working class so they do lap it up.

that's why democratic socialism is a thing

Not to shit on dem-socs

Capitalism has a way of synthesizing and absorbing new things

case in point female Ghostbusters and Black Panther

Yes good point

Dem soc us cancer

Is

There's a lot of talk about agitating and raising class consciousness, but I think the 21st century version of this is somehow disabling the spectacle

Or countering it

we arent in factories and so forth any more

we are highly atomised

@herb sure its centrist horseshit but I'm not here to cause sectarian strife

@Nicholas91 that's a good point

@Nicholas91 Also I'm glad someone at least has read about Debord

Debord basically explains how to run a totalitarian state on the sly

Zuckerberg is obviously a fan

off topic

but did you hear about that Russian troll thats now working at facebook?

No and I can't follow this narrative any more

Lemme see if I can find an article or something

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor

I atleast found this

In the sense that I feel unable to make anything close to an objective assesment on the situation

but that isn't the right thing

Russian trolls made Hillary unelectable by pointing out her flaws <:blobsmirk:396521731185180684>

I was just trying to point out that Zuck has plenty of buisness working with authoritarian regimes.

Ah right

@nerd or the DNC just plain fucking stupid

and decided to run with a shit candidate that was unelectable from the start

obviously