the disintegration of human liberation into spectacular social consumption
The banalization of liberation movements was probably alsways there, what wasn't there was feds listening and reading everything 24/7 to identify anyone with potential and terminating them in record time.
Hippies were being dipshits posers while Fred Hampton was being assasinated. Now radlibs are being dipshits while today's Fred Hamptons are killed before having any fame or prominence.
See all the early BLM leaders burned alive in cars.
Sone nerd might be able to point out 1800 dipshits snakeoilsellers getting a lot of fame for mentioning social problems and proposing faux "solutions" while being against real revolutionaries with real solutions.
rise of extremely effective propaganda and social control by western bourgeois states that would come about via the experience of the world wars. and related, the effect that universal public schooling by the state would have.
Yes, Gramsci is a key development from Marx and really essential reading as much as Lenin is.
Marx never considered the Dís Principle, which wasn't discovered until around the 1970s
for those who haven't heard of it, here's the shortest possible way I can explain it
Dís Nuts lol
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