Ontology talk:9k/RD/Q30,52

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3052. Q3052/Q30,52

      hegemony politics

      / war of position (Gramsci) / musical chairs attack (meta-Marxism, MDem scraps) / stealth activism (center-Liberalism) ->
      

      the motif of people trying to "prevent fascism" by filling up business territories or government institutions with linked groups of people who are "not fascists" as fast as possible before "the fascists" get in. one of the chief strategies of Gramscianism. seems to me like it doesn't really make any sense because it is so chiefly defined by creating countable Cultures of people who belong in a particular cultural identity and carrying out competition between countable Cultures to exist instead of each other existing. that seems a lot more like it's the problem than the way the problem is resolved. realistically, you have to get all your progressives to good landlords and good capitalists who will pay the landlords if you want to end the graph struggle, and put good capitalists in all the reactionary businesses before you can drive the reactionary workers out. the capitalists have to lead this for it to be maximally effective and actually bring change. but it also clearly demonstrates that capitalist populations consist of multiple separate populations divided based on something other than who is a capitalist; you don't have a capitalist population and a worker population, you have specifically a Tory population and a center-Liberal population that recruit people into the nation and "allow" them to work. the bigger question to me is what creates these two populations. it isn't religion, because two people can be Protestants and still divide into these two populations. it has something to do with the inherent collapse of Liberal-republicanism.

3052. Q3052/Q30,52 hegemony politics -> note: in this context, "hegemony" politics refers to political activities obsessed with changing "ideological hegemony" inside a society rather than A) obsessing about particular candidates and elections or other such objects and processes that Liberal-republicans think of as "material" or B) materially constructing a workers' state through various physical steps to defend against the bourgeoisie rather than worrying about Ideas "going first" to defend society and basically trying to 'take over' society with political ideas. definition "B" shows how basically, Fisherists and Gramscians have redefined the term 'hegemony' to mean almost the same thing as Idealism rather than it referring to a physical population ruling over other populations (a bad thing in the case of ancient Rome labeling a neighboring population slaves, a good thing in the case of a proletarian republic 'ruling' over a single republic), so that "hegemony politics" would translate to "Idealism politics".

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3051. Q3051/Q30,51

      hegemonic motif

      (Western Marxism) / hegemonic idea / hegemonic concept / dominant model / hegemonic ideology / hegemonic philosophy / dominant narrative (postmodernism) -> I wish people would stop saying that Ideas can be dominant when it's always people that dominate and then spit out ideas.
      

      it leads to a lot of "Gerson Boom bullshit (pronounced [BS])" where people start to believe that all politics and sociology is about constructed narratives and things people deliberately choose to believe and say

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      ruling idea

      (early Marxism) / ruling-class idea / bourgeois ideology (Liberal capitalism; in Liberal-capitalist historical period) / knightly code (in feudal period) / noble disposition; gentlemanly disposition (in feudal period) / Christlike disposition (in historical period dominated by clergy) -> this is the real thing. Western-Marxists started here, with the concept of "bourgeois ideology".... and then the concept got wildly vulgarized until it was just any idea that another faction of people was spreading that you didn't want being spread. for a bit prior to maybe 1980 when either Maoists and the Black Panthers were trying to work together or Maoists were scrambling to co-opt BlackPantherism in order to revive it, it was 'racist ideology' or 'settler ideology', and that almost came close to making a bit of sense for a second. but then it got vulgarized a second time into just.... this really really dumb concept that capitalism programs people "to be against hope" which makes no sense at all and this programs people to be Tories which is the only reason there is imperialism. this is a mythology. I swear Greek myths about constellations make more logical sense than that. I am deeply tired of Western-Marxism and I wish all of it would stop and everything pretending to be it would stop.
3050. Q3050/Q30,50

      right-wing semantic hegemony

      [1] -> how do I tell you this? there isn't any such thing. language isn't a thing anyone can have hegemony over. not really. not actually. language (ontology) is the holding of beliefs and the formation of culture itself. whatever its content is, you can't just tell people not to have it, or to "break free" of having it. they'll never think that being part of it isn't being free if they chose it in order to be free, which is almost always the case. talking about such nonsense as "right-wing semantic hegemony" is basically saying "I don't like the right-wing countable culture, I want to smash all of Tory culture and purge it from the world", and there's no real difference between those two things.
      

      absolute lies. the people who say this are absolute liars about what they're really talking about and what they really mean.

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• W / Western Marxism
• W / Gramscianism