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>>9421392
>as a result of politics having infested every element of life

that's where you're wrong. politics has all but vanished. class struggle is completely underground, if not extinguished entirely thanks to union fragmentation. any form of protest is immediately co-opted by state- and market-actors to hawk products. Cf. the pepsi commercial, which though it is "only a commercial," nevertheless indexes how completely milquetoast and limp-wristed every popular movement is today unless it is corporately backed, like the Tea Party was. meanwhile the online shitstorm it caused was probably only negation in the psychoanalytic sense: pepsi is showing the left what they really look like, and that made them uncomfortable. i say all this as a marxist, btw.

what has replaced politics is "politics," which essentially reduces to aesthetics + marketing. choose your team, pick a side, watch a TV show, demand representation in commercials, retweet strong, rich, neoliberal women. do not look at the world beyond the little screen. this all started in the 70s and 80s with the New Left, btw, which is responsible for importing Foucault and mistaking The Discourse for politics. now Radical Statements are Subversive on their own, without requiring any of those pesky, smelly, male laborers to get in the way.

am i whinging by bringing cell phones into it? probably. but one last, somewhat crazy but i think arguable example. why has the left been so incontinent in an age where communication and organization, the primary historical obstacles to militancy, is now easier than ever? i think that it is precisely because it is so easy that it cannot get anywhere. left politics are predetermined by the capitalist media in which it operates, or rather into which it has been corralled. why is it, in other words, that you know more about your local freemason or knights of columbus lodge house than about your local labor unions or communist groups? because the former have material. they have buildings with their names on it. they hold property and occupy territory. leftists don't do any of that shit anymore because they have mistaken virtual presence for physical presence, and it will cost us all.

peace.

>>8901238

>dialectic materialism