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I hate how atlas shrugged has been highjacked by the right! It's such a good book and doesn't mean what they think it means!
I mean Stalin Lenin and Mao aren't exactly that much better
I mean… does South Park have bad socioeconomics? Like it’s not something to base your understanding on but I don’t see it as inherently right wing.
It's pretty standard "enlightened centrist" from what I've seen (where of course "centrist" means centered between the right-wing party and the fascist party in the US).
How so?
it focuses on social aspects never seen it touch economics, very American view point which inherently means a right wing economic baseline, it mocks right wing ideology and dogmatism and encourages a more liberal and socially just perspective but never really explored economic aspects
There was the Margaritaville episode. I think that said... something... about capitalism and economics.
But I think the political commentary got a lot less pointed around the time hindsight kicked in on the climate change episodes. Kinda felt like the recurring theme was "everyone is an idiot, even us." Giant Douche v. Turd Sandwich felt a bit enlightened centristy.
I can't say anything about that, I haven't watched those
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The only person i know who still watches it has horrifically right wing socioeconomics.
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I don't think you should be taking socio-economic understanding from the guy whose mismanagement caused/exacerbated this. And, you know, created an authoritarian state out of a revolution; that was bad too.
What, you can't learn from century old mistakes? That particular famine's not the real warning though, that's just war shit and Russian cyclical famines that were ended by modern agriculture. Look that up by the way, it's fascinating.
What you want is the Lysenkoism-caused famines that followed it, partly because the Soviets were so desperate to end the cycles and thus prove their legitimacy. Ironic.
That particular famine's not the real warning though, that's just war shit and Russian cyclical famines that were ended by modern agriculture.
Okay so cyclical famines don't kill millions of people that's not how that works. The main cause of the famine was the war, but the war caused the famine through (among other things) War Communism. In the immortal words of one angry Irish dude: God created the ~~potato blight~~ crop failures; the ~~British~~ Communist Party created the famine.
What you want is the Lysenkoism-caused famines that followed it, partly because the Soviets were so desperate to end the cycles and thus prove their legitimacy.
Those are more clear-cut since there was no war to blame for incompetent Soviet policy, but I wanted to point out that even Lenin himself was a failure as a ruler and not at all the source of sound socioeconomic ideas when it comes to actually solving the problem he claimed to have the solution for.
To be even fairer, how many leftists or progressives reading this can name anybody in the photo collage besides Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Malcolm X, and maybe Angela Davis, without doing an image search? And I say this as a guy who has voted progressive all my life. Too many people nowadays seem to get their "understanding" from memes.
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Me, meanwhile, hanging out on solarpunk memes. . .
The right also has some prominent socio-economic writers such as Thomas Sowell and other writers adjacent to Austrian school thought, so it's not just media slop but also book slop.
It's just a bit unfortunate that the right doesn't read any theory, even ones that agree with their worldview, they just like talking about the authors because book = smart. Same with the left - there's lots of people who proclaim themselves to have some theoretically heavy position (e.g. communism or anarchism) then proceed to say the most stupid shit.
Yeah, all the Hayek’s and Fridman’s.
At the end of the day, the actual field of economics is mostly built on capitalist assumptions except for some smaller subfields. So you get A LOT of neoliberal types as economics professors.
And the Chicago school
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The Right has captured a good portion of the American lumpenproletariat (excluding me).
At least that is what I think that these media choices were chosen to communicate.
If you’re watching Fox for the cartoons, you might accidentally catch their “news”
Simpsons did it?
I wonder if Seth McFarlane and Matt Groening ever lose sleep over the fact that they certainly helped turn more edgy boys into fascists than fascists into liberals?
I'm sure the piles of money help.
Different channels. Different companies. Fox News does not own 20th Century Fox broadcast channel.
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....this isn't funny...
Who said memes are funny?
Comrade TRAORE spotted!!!
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