Episode 131 ... Gramsci - Cultural Hegemony

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[@simsonyee]

Gramsci and Machiavelli talk about the same things. How power works. How does one obtain and mantain power. What if that power is used to oppress the powerless? What do they do the change the dynamics of power that are stacked unfairly against them?

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[@codex3048]

22:20 "Gramsci hated Stalin (etc)..." Ah there's the crux of the matter. Philosophers like Plato, Marx, and Gramsci always assume (against all evidence to the contrary) that people of their same temperament will gain power and won't commit the abuses of the despots that they write against. What they don't understand is that a weak ruler will be overcome by a strong one. Any system that Gramsci could have conceived of would sooner or later attract a Stalin or Hitler type of authoritarian.

[@ToaNyroc]

the reason why stalin had to be so strong was because otherwise the us and the rest of the capitalist countries were breathing down the ussr's neck. the guy was a huge piece of shit but part of the reason why was because he was forced to be by the western imperialist nations.

[@robertswitzer990]

ToaNyroc That’s patently false. Stalin like almost every other revolutionary individual in Russia was far more concerned with the czarist Russian empire than the West. Only well after he held control of the USSR did he even begin to look outward in a less ideological way and more so as a statesman. But by then, and up to his dying day, the mountain of corpses he had left in his wake had been far too great to place blame solely at the feet of the west. The western workers managed to overcome a lot of difficulties without resorting to the Bolshevik style revolution and destruction of their civilization. So to say Stalin was evil because the western capitalist imperialist civilization was even worse is another example of Bolshevik utopian ideology that is a fantasy of the greatest magnitude.

[@solankijimmy]

@@robertswitzer990 Western workers were not able to overcome a lot of stuff and I have seen defeat after defeat for the workers of the world. It is not fantastical to say Stalin was forced or in fact the USSR was forced into things that otherwise would not have been its domain. Most of the deaths occurred during the war. Someone like Stalin himself may not have emerged as a central authority if not for Western pressures. Western civilization at any rate has been forfeit, I thought we are in a postcolonial world but you can surely cling to what you like. Today's sorry state of the world is in part a failure of Western cultural hegemony and the sad acquiescence of Western society to it. Workers across the world fought valiantly and in some cases still do, but we have failed miserably. And I don't even like Stalin, on his hands is the blood of millions. Nor am I fan of Bolshevism. But your attack on Bolshevism is in part a result of a cultural hegemony that becomes more and more absolute and insidious. Western culture industry is unparalleled by any entity before it or now. I'd say almost all evil in the modern world is because of the West, not just due to overt politics but through ideology itself.

[@thedailydecipherwithshanep7855]

What stopped me in the first 3 minutes was this: You began to propose imagining the conversations pertaining to communism pre baggage. I find it interesting to hear the horrors of communism described as “baggage”. It also doesn’t matter to entertain early naive conversations about communist ideology. We now know it ends badly every time.

[@WoeToAllThatWalkTheEarth]

common missinformed bootlicker opinion 🡅

[@francescopassero8369]

Hey Stephen, will you talk about Bertrand Russel?

[@bitupanbhuyan5183]

KZbin and sir..you..yes you are educating me. Thanks a lot. I m facing cultural hegemony everyday..and i can relate this.

[@paharipant2]

True. gotta end indian left's cultural hegemony.

[@stvksn]

@@paharipant2 your comment is self-contradictory

[@paharipant2]

@@stvksn is it contradictory or self- contradictory ?

[@illbyno1]

So Tupac's song "changes" is about cultural hegemony.?.

[@Shadyblues]

You're wonderful...m cow

[@Undeletedgold]

10:07

[@iankirschner144]

hurricanes are more common bc of climate change....

[@christinemartin63]

Bosh! People who hate capitalism need to act by relocating to a Scandanavian socialist country or a S. American kleptocracy or an African dictatorship or a Chinese totalitarian state. They should then compare regimes and see what benefits them. Enough whining without action. And then if they want to improve that socialist or kleptocratic or dictatorship or Communist state, they should protest in those countries.

[@WoeToAllThatWalkTheEarth]

this has to be a joke. none of those places are socialist or communist states. the Scandinavians are social democrats and as for Africa and China you used the terms dictatorship and totalitarian which have nothing to do with marxist theory so how could you mention them like they're communist

[@agabrielrose]

[@debblouin]

Re: hurricanes People ARE angry at hurricanes, or rather, at other people for using “fossil fuels” and advancing “climate change” which is causing hurricanes.

[@begrackled]

I feel like that should be a bust of Joel Osteen instead of Aristotle.

[@aroveranalysis9978]

Yeah...still not voting for buttigieg

[@drill6739]

AR Overanalysis yeah don’t lmfao only his dad is cool

[@NathanDudani]

@@drill6739 I was waiting for someone to say that

[@0lAllan]

1) "Money talks", 2) "the bottomline", 3) "it's ancient history". 1) Has this ever happened to you? For my part I never heard it talk. Obviously it isn't literally, then what do you mean when you say it? Is there a correlation between this phrase and corruption? 2) Remember the previous statement. Why do people who are not business owners use this phrase to say "what matters " or "what's important is"? Do you, dear stranger know what the bottomline you are referencing to? (its the resolution of a simple subtraction problem- R - O = P) 3) What do the mean when you say this? IT DOESN'T MATTER. Why is this? Can nothing be gleamed through the study of ancient history? (on a personal note this one is particularly peevish) Please consider these three statements in relation to cultural hegemony. Every one of these support the hegemon. None of then are true in any way on the surface and shallow thinkers never ask the who, the what, and the how questions which would get the doops and rubes which spout those nonsense positions to know what the are REALLY SAYING. Everybody I know are effectively brainwashed by this hegemony (bare in mind I don't think that brainwashing is possible and I KNOW that it is a kind of psycho social conditioning). I am now utterly disaffected and I refuse to ever capitulate with it in any way. I have completely disassociated with everyone I know. This will be the death of me. I used to be 340 pounds. I am now close to 200 pounds. I am going to starve my self to death over this because it is related to every other issue in this unenlightened horror show. I'm apparently not insane despite this so I get zero help from my society. All because of the corruption this bag of shit richman's cultural has EVERYONE I KNOW set in a corrupt mode of thought which only serves the 1% of them.