I'm listening to a podcast about my field, and it's amazing how naive techbros can be. "But Facebook can't be evil cause they are bound by the market"... I miss being this naive and innocent.
My parter is a hair away from being radicalized but then they started listening to to some neoliberal climate change podcast about how “geopolitical forces make action on climate change impossible most of the time” and now I’m worried they’ll fall into the same “but the market” shit
True, I don’t think all hope is lost. I think I was starting to get through by asking “well why do those forces exist?” And sort of working backwards from there. We talked a little bit about how things like free trade creates economic incentive to fuck up the environment (ty Naomi Klein) but I’m always worried I’m just not articulate enough to explain things concisely so I’m never sure if I’m getting through
You can always recommend podcasts and articles about the things you struggle with explaining. Especially citations needed since they often debunk specific buzzwords like "economic freedom" and "free trade". And behind the Bastsrds since it shows how a lot of aspects of the current system came to be thanks to horrible people that do horrible things. As well as stuff how free trade isn't really free and usually is just the global north extracting stuff from the global south and so on and on.
I'm listening to a podcast about my field, and it's amazing how naive techbros can be. "But Facebook can't be evil cause they are bound by the market"... I miss being this naive and innocent.
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My parter is a hair away from being radicalized but then they started listening to to some neoliberal climate change podcast about how “geopolitical forces make action on climate change impossible most of the time” and now I’m worried they’ll fall into the same “but the market” shit
I think you should still be able to radicalise them, if you start talking about what these geopolitical forces are and why it's capitalism
True, I don’t think all hope is lost. I think I was starting to get through by asking “well why do those forces exist?” And sort of working backwards from there. We talked a little bit about how things like free trade creates economic incentive to fuck up the environment (ty Naomi Klein) but I’m always worried I’m just not articulate enough to explain things concisely so I’m never sure if I’m getting through
You can always recommend podcasts and articles about the things you struggle with explaining. Especially citations needed since they often debunk specific buzzwords like "economic freedom" and "free trade". And behind the Bastsrds since it shows how a lot of aspects of the current system came to be thanks to horrible people that do horrible things. As well as stuff how free trade isn't really free and usually is just the global north extracting stuff from the global south and so on and on.
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Thanks for the tip, any recs on where to start?
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Rev Left also did an excellent episode on Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Organic Intellectuals, & Italian Fascism.