Re: Video: Who has the Power? Power in Foucault and Marx Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on June 11, 2019, 9:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Video: Who has the Power? Power in Foucault and Marx"
"It's too easy to criticize billionaire oligarchs and world dominators. It is much harder to criticize your own self and those notions you most cherish. Failing to do the latter is what makes people useful idiots. " I do criticise myself and try to challenge my own assumptions, as much as any us do (which is why i used to enjoy our chats before they got more boringly insult-based) - But i'm not going to let the extent to which i don;t limit my criticism of unjust aspects of the system (that's that petersonian quietism that is) - and there's just no way around it, that means criticising some billionaires, because they're the ones who have the power, and who use it to perpetuate the status quo that benefits them. Though i try not to criticise them personally - it's about their relationship to power - i'm sure they;re all lovely chaps and chapesses to their friends and families - and if we get rid of any particular capitalist/oligarch/baddie, they;d only be replicated by the material arrangements underpinning their power - even if we get rid of the whole lot of them, if the material arrangements don't fundamentally change, another class will take the baddies place (like happened before). Anyway, it seems a bit futile if we can't even agree on the meaning of words so i'll also take my leave good sir.
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