Hi. This probably seems like a dumb question...

Hi. This probably seems like a dumb question, but I was curious about good resources for introductions to a lot of the political history and rationale for the things you guys believe.

I kind of accidentally stumbled into friendship with a bunch of Not Socialists/people from pol. My intuition tells me a lot of the stuff they say is stupid/wrong, but I don't really have a good knowledge of politics and history to back myself up or argue against them.

Just looking for some good 101 stuff as someone who is pretty ignorant to a lot of this stuff but is curious to learn.

Go to >>>/freedu/ we have a whole board dedicated to educational material and questions like this

its never stupid to question what nazis say and search for knowledge. check out >>>/freedu/, there are a few beginners marxist/anarchist threads there, as well as marxist-leninist ones. post any questions you have and qt leftists will answer them for you. also do mind a lot of folks here are well-read philosophy-fags, but there are also quite a lot of quasi-intellectuals, so keep an open mind and be willing to read new things and engage in new materials. bookfags you should trust are yui and the christian communism flag dude.
if youre becoming friends with some nazis, drop it right there because nazis cant argue logically. you cant convert them. just join out discord chat or dubtrack room, we might discuss productively or autistically about a lot of subjects. hope you have a good time here famrade

I miss Asuza

How you guys tend to feel about homosexuality?

It isn't relevant to us. Nobody really cares.

each persons got his own personal opinion, but we tend not to care, its irrelevant like the comrade at
said.
we arent liberals in case thats what youre thinking. the LGBT is controlled by the bourgeois to divide the class struggle.

I'm starting to browse the /freedu/ threads a bit. Any good resources for explanations on why "cultural marxism" is bullshit?

please show me exactly where marx or anyone from the frankfurt wrote that white culture or any culture at all should be destroyed. also capitalism destroyed cultures way faster than communism ever did or ever will.

"Cultural Marxism" is a bogey man created by the far right when they found out that in the 1960s some fairly inconsequential academic Marxists wrote about the necessity of changing the ideology of the masses in order for economic relations to successfully change into communism. Their ideas were based around introducing communist Marxist ideas into culture in order to counter the accepted capitalist narrative. Its an academic idea that has some grounding and is interesting to read about and consider in political approach. That's about it.

Also I couldn't care less about the sex lives, clothing, or self-identification of consenting and mentally capable adults. I think most people here would agree with that sentiment.

For debating Nazis you learn martial arts, not theory.

so they can stay alive? fuck that OP, learn how to use a gun.

This group of academics were called "the Frankfurt school" if you want to find out more.

I'm a regular poster but I'd like to go a bit against the shared opinion of "cultural marxism is a boogeyman" of the board. The actual root of what Holla Forums calls "cultural marxism" isn't found in the Frankfurt School but in Gramsci. His idea of "cultural egemony" is very well documented and has quite some similarities to "cultural marxism". Now, the step from Gramsci to Anita Sarkeesian is still quite long but I don't think it's possible to deny a prevalence of leftist ideas in modern academia. So I would say "cultural hegemony" to some degree happened but it was entirely counter productive because it created a class of intellectuals that are unable to communicate in an effecient way with the working class.

I'm gonna get some flak for this but whatever.

sage because stupid question

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But there is nothing Marxist about Sarkeesian. She isn't an example of a "cultural Marxist" even if pol thinks she is, because she nor the majority of people think she has anything to do with Marxism, and more importantly, she objectively is not a Marxist.

Leftist cultural hegemony hasn't happened, liberal cultural hegemony has. There is nothing anticapitalist about the current liberal hegemonic narrative

Mark pics like that as spoilers you fool. This board is sfw

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It's not a meme, its a board rule. Some of us browse here at work or out in public, and some of just don't particularly want to see stretched man-assholes.

Rude, please be more respectful of goatse, it's an important piece of internet history

I know about the history of goatsee, I'll go to Holla Forums if I wanna engage in nsfw meme history though thanks

I don't think he's saying that academic progressives are leftist, let alone marxist, so much as it's a mutated offshoot that has an evolutionary link to Gramsci, but is now an ideologically distinct breed of social science that has only, at best, a few superficial traits resembling anything vaguely socialist.

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