/lit/ - Literature

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>>16980095
Okay how about her

>>16942015
Finnegans Wake
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Mason and Dixon
Hopscotch
Giants in the Earth
Buddenbrooks
A Scanner Darkly

It should be fairly clear to any "anti-imperialist" that the historicist elements of Fukuyama's original argument are deeply flawed. Liberalism didn't prevail because liberal capitalist democracy is the inevitable outcome, the system of culture, economics, and political organization that stands astride history. Liberalism ultimately triumphed in the 20th century because the forces of capital waged an unceasing, global war to impose the political and economic conditions which allowed it to flourish. Any real historical materialist analysis should immediately recognize this. The real trick Fukuyama and Kojeve played on the Left, with the assistance of Western intelligence, was making them accept the teleology of liberalism; in turn, there hasn't been a firmware update to Marxism in the wake of it's primarily historical presuppositions being disproven.

That there hasn't been a firmware update to 19th century labor theories of value to account for interdependence financialization/ globalization/ complex interdependence also explains how a supposed anti-capitalist would deny the existence of the professional managerial class. In a post-industrial economy defining a class strictly based on it's relationship to the means of production is historically and economically illiterate. So in many ways the American Left's poverty of analysis and contradictions can be understood as an epistemological issue, one which can be traced back to the midcentury New Left, through to the 1990s where the humanities became a playground for the most empty headed critical theory (which was concurrent with the DNC tossing aside the New Deal coalition for a Reaganomic Third Way).

These epistemological issues have made the entire American Left shock troops for capital. When normie leftists or even more studied Marxist realize this they actually lose their shit: the collective semi-schizophrenic malaise is now known as "the Post-Left." But obsessively documenting the contradictions of libertine "socialists," CIAnarchists, radlibs, and perverts does not an ideology make; in the same way Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson "owning the libs" is ultimately just running cover for moderate Zionism/ liberalism. It's weird that people think it's actually a smart and hip new political movement.

But the "Post-Left" is interesting because it demonstrates how impoverished the Left is, that these people are so disoriented by these contradictions that they have adopted an entirely critical, hyper blackpilled worldview. It also demonstrates an opportunity for the Right to make a more deeply-rooted and prescriptive critique of capitalism.