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culture is in turn downstream from economics

The founder of the far-right Breitbart News, Andrew Breitbart, was fond of saying that “politics is downstream from culture.” The Frankfurt School would agree, but add (as all good Marxists would) that culture is in turn downstream from economics, which is really downstream from rich people peeing …

Verso Blog What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? missing author
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all news is fake news

But who gets to decide which news is fake? Adorno would probably cringe at the very term “fake news,” with its implication that most media outlets present news that is, in a distinct and meaningful sense, “real.” In fact, the main takeaway of Adorno’s famous “culture industry” theory is that mass m…

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? missing author
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7 years, 8 months ago

beyond winning state power

A fundamental flaw in UK left thinking for generations has been the abandonment of the long-term hegemonic strategy. With the election of Corbyn, a new opportunity arises for a historic re-engagement with an ambitious politics across the Left in the UK. This would, minimally, place an emphasis on l…

—p.164 Corbyn and the Future of Labour: A Verso Report Corbynism and the Parameters of Power (156) by Alex Williams
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we have a movement to build

We have a movement to build. In the process, we may lose the next two or three elections. As long as our enemies control the media, dominate workplaces and determine the nature of so many community institutions, they will always be able to frighten enough of the electorate into voting against us to…

—p.146 The Question of Leadership (128) by Jeremy Gilbert
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the liberal and the sociological models of politics

The great difference between the liberal and the sociological models, however, is that the latter can at least explain the former. It is easy to understand where the idea of politics as marketing comes from and why it has so much support if we think about the fact that it essentially serves the int…

—p.143 The Question of Leadership (128) by Jeremy Gilbert