• Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    A made up term by some champaigne socialist who repackaged gramsci's "cultural hegemony" for western college students.

    I randomly decided to read some of these beginner marxism books a year or so ago, and mark fisher's books were the absolute worst. It's the focus and obsession of culture, art, over materialist analyses of history and imperialism, that's so appealing to westerners.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It reminds me of original Proletkult, it often turns sus really fast, even happened under the nose of Lenin himself, not to mention westolefto.

        • SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlM
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          1 year ago

          I thought it was OK if you are already equipped to parse through the bullshit (e.g. reading it critically).

          The best thing I would say about it is it is relatively concisely written for such a heady topic, and I appreciated the anecdotes regarding skyrocketing mental illness in British schools. It helped descramble my brain a little bit when I read it.

          I recommend Gramsci a million times over, though. Fisher's breakdown is a mere toe in the water in comparison.