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ok gang I’m thinking of leading a wretched of the earth book club in January and after that we do a trinity of fundamentals thoughts?

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    they are eagerly wielding the {claim} like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

    Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off {and that America is the most shining nation on the hill}

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    Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. {of core-periphery labour and resource exploitation, American hegemony, so on and so forth}

    • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on.

      THIS!! This is why I have no time, patience, or desire to come together with/align with/organize with white folk. It takes all of my energy and drive to try and address these brainworms in my own kinfolk and farther skinfolk-- why the fuck would I want to spend what little time I have after that on the people who eagerly support initiatives to throw my folk in prisons for existing?

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Do you want the full article I pulled this out from? Masses, Elites, and Rebels: {A critique of} the theory of “Brainwashing” (2022)

        If you don't wanna read the whole thing and just want a tl;dr:

        I reject only the common misconception that propaganda “manufactures consent” (Chomsky) or “invents reality” (Parenti), because it exaggerates the feat accomplished by propagandists, and, in doing so, it obscures the real material basis that has historically made even the working poor in the imperial core complicit.

        Reject the idea of “brainwashing,” and insist on seeking the kernel of intelligence and truth and wisdom in everyone’s current actions, even when they seem repulsive or hopelessly short-sighted. Identify where exactly you can intervene, and with whom, in such a way that it dovetails with existing tendencies, but always with an eye to revolution and the prize of a better future.

        Though, I suppose, if you can’t do it with kkkrakkkers, then I guess you can find solidarity and solace worldwide, outside the U.S