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Don't Act. Just Think! *sniff*

WHERE ARE THE MARXISTS PETERSON?

I want to read about communist theory but I don't know where to start. I have a copy of the communist manifesto but that feels a bit like jumping into the deep end. I have done very little philosophical reading and almost no political theory reading (I'm a history undergrad). Where should I even start? I've heard that Zizek is good, and I've also heard that it helps to have companion books for certain (usually older) texts. If possible I'd like to read on the later USSR, but thats not necessary. Thanks frens.

He really did a number on him...

>>13488211
Leave Lobsterboi to me.

How are leftists supposed to make this ideology appealing when one of the best contemporary leftists has a runny nose 24/7?

Zizek talked about this thing Lacan said about a jealous husband who believes his wife is having an affair, and even if it is true that his wife is being unfaithful the husband's jealousy is still pathological. I recently experienced much the same thing, I had suspicions, delusions of persecution by coworkers and believed they were spreading false rumors about me. These thoughts had plagued me for years, inhibiting my social development. During the time I read "Journey to the End of the Night," and had related deeply with Bardamu's cloistered suspicions of his fellow passengers on the ship bound for Africa bearing him ill will. Recently it was brought to my attention that in fact there were particularly nasty rumors being spread about me. I must now reconcile the fact that despite my delusions ultimately being true, my suspicion and paranoia are still pathological constructs to contain my self-identity. Has anyone else gone through this sort of thing? How does one move on?

WHERE ARE THE MARXISTS PIDOR
SHOW ME A MARXIST
NAME ONE

>>12470487
to answer the OP's question:
>Are wisdom traditions truly a barrier against the all-consuming spirit of Capital, as wisdom traditions seemingly all become tyranny once they pass a certian level?
Zizek hates Wisdom, and it's not so hard to know why. he hates it because it is always right after the fact, no matter what it was. but on some deep level he hates it because he wants to do it also. he wants to be the ultimate Wisdom-Giver, and he knows it. that's why he can say everything he needed to learn about ideology he learned from Stalin. psychoanalysis is a very safe form of totalitarianism, and it is precisely kind of totalitarianism that neoliberalism secretly desires, which is why communism and capitalism have such a secret love for each other. what makes fascism unendurable for both of those is that it can solve its own problems by recourse to poetic mysticism that really does work and fail to work, at the same time.

at the bottom, Aminom is right: it is just about love. generations of Deleuzian and Lacanian analysis have taught us precisely this, that *it is extremely hard to enjoy things.* we ultimately would like to offload this responsibility onto something else instead, and we will continue to do this for a long time. as for why or how Land figures into these things, it is because acceleration really does show a relatively unexplored fourth possibility, outside of neoliberalism, communism and fascism: the automatic planet, and cities that wear you like their own skin. technology and ruthless libertarianism absolutely go hand in glove.

and, well, we know this. but that is why these are Space Taoism and Pancreativism and Cosmotech threads, and not just regular old acceleration threads. a kind of principled paranoia, or enlightened philosophical anarchism, is not such a bad idea. there's creative destruction and there is also destructive creation. we find ourselves somewhere in between these things. my own hope is, perhaps, to try and find a little joy in philosophy, even knowing how fucking horrible all of it can make you feel sometimes.

i also find myself increasingly making room for old-fashioned Christianity too, the very last religion i ever wanted to make nice with, because it is the ultimate Downer Religion. but i also think it has the right feels about poverty and love for an era of evil that fails to be as evil as it might be, and really in which much of the automation of the human spirit really is just the materialization of all the thwarted desires and failed dreams that Bloch always said capital was.

What's a good introductory Žižek book? I tried "The Plague of Fantasies," but it lost me quite rapidly.

*cocks gun*
You know he would win. Pinker wouldn't deign to argue with him on his level and Peterson is too much of a stiff to outwit the Ziz.