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23 Oct

There is no “working class” today. There are people who work, but what’s missing is any historical consciousness between any segment of these people around which to form a class. The discourse defines working class purely as a function of misery. This is not “leftism”.

It’s towards the formation of this historical self-consciousness that the revolutionary first must direct his efforts. Using the concept of the working class merely to attack social rivals and to legitimize oneself within the public opinion machine is not “leftist”.

The working class is like a nation unto itself, with its own genius, history, language, culture, logic. To build this nation in idea is the perquisite of solidarity, organization, and revolution. The revolution *is* the historical self-consciousness of the working class

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16 Oct

Notice how discourse around supply chain issues is dedicated entirely to the morality of that discourse’s own sentiment regarding how the issue affects hypothetical individuals. The history and material realities of the international maritime order go completely undiscussed

Cafruny, Alan. 1995. “Class, State, and World Systems: The Transformation of International Maritime Relations.” Review of International Political Economy 2 (2): 285–314.

Carlisle, Rodney. 1980. “The ‘American Century’ Implemented: Stettinius and the Liberian Flag of Convenience.” Business History Review 54 (2): 175–91.

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@wydna00

10 Oct

The weakness of most conspiracy theory research is a consequence not of there being no actual object of inquiry, that is, no real “conspiracy” to uncover, but rather of that research’s insufficient grounding in sociological, psychological, historicist, or hermeneutical frameworks

Most researchers only adopt the most basic paradigm of “All the President’s Men” style journalistic exposé, but lack more advanced tools of critical textual hermeneutics, theories of ideology, and historicist conceptual genealogies to empower their work and direct them properly

Hermeneutics for example refers not to a vague philosophy of general meaning, but a technical body of interpretive principles and critical practices rooted in 17th century scholarship concerned with the scientific dating and authentication of Biblical texts and Papal documents

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10 Oct

Privacy and security related features in web related applications and services come across increasingly mostly as marketing hype. Many major ones seem like tools developed by the US government to promote geopolitical instability in its rivals. Apps like Signal are not trustworthy

I think many consumers are vague on the details of what many security features do and what kind of information and data is involved on a technical level. I’m not really sure a VPN really does a whole lot for most people with the prevalence of https and encrypted dns for example

People think in terms of themselves, and worry about having their passwords stolen and “viruses,” but today it seems more like a larger scale meta-war between corporations and governments over the mass collection and use of kinds of data largely trivial to the individual

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@wydna00

10 Oct

Listening to Logo’s episode this came to mind, a forgotten early 70s folk/prog band called Simaril, which doubled as a Pentecostal cult led by closeted gay frontman Matthew Peregrine, who ended up dying of AIDS in 1992. Very haunting music

Another one is the Trees Community, active in the early to mid-70s. An Episcopal Christian prog/new age/world music collective and pseudo-formal religious order that toured Catholic monasteries and Anabaptist communities in a school bus

There are honestly a lot of obscure but interesting Christian bands for this period, made up of ex-bohemians and hippies who moved from the belief systems of 60s new age acid psychedelia into mystical Christian movements and formed often cultish music collectives.

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9 Oct

There’s no master list for reference regarding the Pseudcast catalog and some listeners don’t know which episodes are which, or in which order to listen to them. So here’s a thread of the Pseudcast canon that I’ll update with future episodes

patreon.com/wydna/

@EBBerger

This is our first real episode, the first with @EBBerger, the original JFK deep lore episode.

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The Victorian Cybernetics Episode

This episode with @Logo_Daedalus, which me and Ed have referenced more than once, covers a lot of history of political economy material and the ideological and class context of Darwin’s work, Fabianism, etc.

patreon.com/posts/41888821

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