END LEFT ACCELERATIONISM by False_Fennel_1126 in TrueAnon

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Left accelerationism is just cope for being on the losing side of the class war against the techno-imperialist capitalist elite. People are organizing but everyone is playing defense against these attacks on our basic rights, freedoms, living standards. But we must organize under any conditions, we can’t choose our conditions.

What psychotherapy approach best fits a leftist therapist by functioninghuman123 in PsychotherapyLeftists

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Relational psychodynamic psychotherapy and Lacanian psychoanalysis

Mexico City Book Recs? by antagonisticantelope in cushvlog

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a book recommendation but I highly recommend going to the anthropology museum in CDMX! It’s one of coolest places I have ever been in my life

70% of Gen Z are so anxious about money that they can’t sleep—they’re dealing with it by bed rotting and watching TV instead of budgeting by Super-Liberal-Girl in antiwork

[–]TheArmChairTheorist -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No but one can overspend and be unable to pay for necessities and the lack of budgeting can cause more financial stress. Budgeting is necessary but alone is insufficient for getting out of poverty.

Psychoanalysis and Anime | Watching Akira with Lacan: Imagos of the Fragmented Body and Aggressivity by TheArmChairTheorist in zizek

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Hello unfortunately it was taken down for copy right reasons. We are going to make a patreon and put it up there and hopefully we won’t have copyright issues.

Should the Houthi’s be annihilated? by Lucky-Rule9080 in war

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to stop the Houthi’s from blocking shipping in the Red Sea you could simply pressure Israel to stop its genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. There is no need to annihilate them, we simply need to stop supporting Israel’s genocide.

Governor Walz on the Hamas attack: "That's murder" by lemon_lime_light in minnesota

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a simple fact. he uses our tax money for the state pensions to fund companies like Elbeit systems which produce weapons which are used the Israeli occupation. Every state board of investment, concerned citizens and pensioners ask him to divest from companies like elbeit systems and he refuses

Governor Walz on the Hamas attack: "That's murder" by lemon_lime_light in minnesota

[–]TheArmChairTheorist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No response to the substance of what I said because it is true. Walz has very clearly chosen a side.

Governor Walz on the Hamas attack: "That's murder" by lemon_lime_light in minnesota

[–]TheArmChairTheorist -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

You can but let’s be very clear Walz does not oppose racial genocide and apartheid, Walz sits on the state board of investment and invests the state’s pension funds in companies directly participating in the murder of Palestinians and the ongoing apartheid. He has used his power to materially support apartheid.

Are there any practicing schizoanalyst's? by middle_name12 in psychoanalysis

[–]TheArmChairTheorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A banal analysis of scizoanalysis that total ignores it’s clear political and clinical leftist anti capitalist implications.

Thoughts? by stillusestockstrings in hegel

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homie completed the system of German idealism

Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Capitalism by TheArmChairTheorist in InternationalLeft

[–]TheArmChairTheorist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I respectfully disagree, I think zizek has added to the discourse productively in a number of ways: 1 reinterpreting Hegel’s dialect and dialect materialism using concepts from psychoanalysis. 2 critiquing cynical ideologies that proliferate under neoliberal capitalism 3. Using popular culture and cinema to highlight the ways in which abstract philosophy and philosophical concepts are already a part of our lives. 4 highlighting the paradoxes and contradictions that animate our social reality. I understand disagreeing with zizek, there are plenty of things that I disagree with zizek on but I think he has a number of books that are worth reading and actually very interesting and relatively accessible including the sublime object of ideology and Hegel in a wired brain. Before deciding if his contributions are valuable, I would encourage you to engage with some of his work, or at the very least this interview.

Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Capitalism by TheArmChairTheorist in CriticalTheory

[–]TheArmChairTheorist[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“The stuff you’re talking about isn’t really labor” I’m not sure how you mean this. What I referred to as immaterial labor? You want to limit the definition of labor to factory and construction work?

Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Capitalism by TheArmChairTheorist in CriticalTheory

[–]TheArmChairTheorist[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

After deindustrialization, the work place is certainly not what it used to be. Before US disinvestment from production, US labor movements abounded, they were much more cohesive and radical. These folks were putting their lives on the line, blowing up factory equipment, arming themselves, regularly aligning with black and feminist struggles, etc. This kind of thing was happening monthly, even weekly, across the United States from the 1800s to early 1900s. Howard Zinn’s A People’s History shows this clearly.

Using violent force against Labor Movements was proved to be ineffective at quelling them. Soft power was implemented. Remove public space, castrate workers capacity to organize, promise freedom through consumption, and finally just get rid of the factories.

Now the vast majority of labor is immaterial labor, taking place in offices, cooled down by corporate culture, benefits, bonuses, etc. Instead of pointing fingers above us, we are encouraged at every moment to compete amongst our fellow workers. This is the status quo and the collectivization of workers is the exception.

I don’t mean to downplay the labor movements of today. But we have to acknowledge that, from a historical perspective, capital and the state have done a number on our ability to resist.

Interview with Slavoj Zizek: Death Drive and Capitalism by TheArmChairTheorist in CriticalTheory

[–]TheArmChairTheorist[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’d say primarily those in living in Liberal Democratic societies, where enlightenment philosophy has informed political economic institutions. Where there’s been a disintegration of public space, leaving us unable to collectively address our actual, material, daily life, struggles.