What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?

6/6/2017 9:20:00 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Antonio Gramsci and the Battle Against Fascism Posted on Jun 4, 2017 By Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/antonio_gramsci_and_the_battle_against_fascism_20170604 Excerpt: Antonio Gramsci wrote his “Prison Notebooks” at a time not dissimilar to our own. The political parties led by the liberal class, because they had detached themselves from the working class, were weak or irrelevant. There was a “crisis of authority.” Fascism was ascendant and state repression was becoming steadily more severe and totalitarian. Benito Mussolini’s regime claimed, like our corporate state, to be implementing a government based on efficiency, meritocracy, the management of society by experts and specialists and the elimination of class conflict through mediation. It too celebrated “heroic” military values, traditionalism and a mythical past that stretched back, in the case of fascist Italy, to ancient Rome. It also rewarded conformism and loyalty, denigrated the humanities and culture in favor of vocational and technical training, spectacle and patriotic kitsch. It preached a relentless positivism, ridiculed the concept of the public good by trumpeting a hyper-individualism and defanged the press. Dissent and criticism were condemned as treason. Gramsci when he was arrested in 1926 and imprisoned technically had parliamentary immunity, but by then the rule of law was meaningless. From this bleak political landscape we get the [Gramsci] dictum you have all heard, “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” Gramsci, like Leon Trotsky, was an intellectual but also a journalist. And it was Trotsky who lamented that by the time Gramsci set out to build the Italian Communist Party, the business elites, allied with the fascists, had put into place such draconian forms of repression that effective organizing was all but impossible. Gramsci deviated from the Marxist belief that the inherent contradictions of capitalism would of themselves usher in socialism. He was opposed to the iron control of a Leninist revolutionary vanguard. Revolution, he wrote, would only be achieved when the masses had gained enough consciousness to exert personal autonomy and see through the mores, stereotypes and narratives disseminated by the dominant culture. Revolutionary change required the intellectual ability to understand reality. Hegemony, for Gramsci, refers to how ruling elites, through the organs of mass culture, manipulate our understanding of reality to promote their interests. The passive consumers of mass culture see the world not as it is but as it is interpreted for them. Mass culture, including the press, schools and systems of entertainment, demonizes all those the ruling elites scapegoat and fear—in our case people of color, the poor, Muslims, undocumented workers, anti-capitalists, labor unions, intellectuals, liberals and dissidents. The corporate elites use mass culture to transform legitimate economic and social grievances into psychological and emotional problems—hence the drumbeat throughout our consumer society to believe in ourselves, work hard, be obedient, heed positive psychologists and self-help gurus, get an education, focus on excellence and believe in our dreams. This mantra, which in essence assures us that reality is never an impediment to what we desire, is accompanied by the fostering of a false camaraderie with the so-called corporate family, if we work for a corporation, or a hypernationalism. Gramsci presciently saw that the capitalist manager was not only tasked with maximizing profit and reducing the cost of labor. The manager had to build mechanisms of indoctrination to ensure social integration and communal solidarity in service to capitalism, hence the constant evaluations, promotions and demotions along with the gathering of employees at meetings to instill groupthink. Along with this indoctrination come mini security and surveillance states in our workplaces where every movement and every word spoken are taped or filmed in the name of customer service. Corporations function as tiny totalitarian states, models for the larger corporate state. Gramsci saw mass culture as the primary tool for submission. The more mass culture infects the thinking and attitudes of the population the less the state has to use harsher forms of coercion for domination. Gramsci described mass culture, or civil society, as the trenches and permanent fortifications that defend the core interests of the elites. Revolutionary change will occur only after a prolonged series of attacks, what Gramsci called a “war of position,” on these outer ideological defenses. It was, in his eyes, a type of siege warfare that requires “patience and inventiveness.” Once the ruling ideology loses credibility, once mass culture is no longer effective, its institutional structures collapse. A counter-hegemony, in short, comes before power. Noam Chomsky boils this down to “Tell the truth.” And as Gramsci seconded, “To tell the truth is revolutionary.” The core of neoliberalism is the absurd idea that the living standards of the global working class will rise by deforming societies to slavishly serve the dictates of the market. We have reached a moment in human history when the reigning ideology has lost its credibility. All of neoliberalism’s promises have proven false. The abolishment of national residency requirements for corporations has been used to legalize corporate tax boycotts. The middle class—the bedrock of any capitalist democracy—is withering away and has been replaced by an angry, disenfranchised working poor. Workers are forced into two or three jobs and 70-hour workweeks to stay solvent. Medical bills, student loans, subprime mortgages and credit card debt trigger crippling bankruptcies. The corporate managerial class, meanwhile, collects billions in bonuses and compensation and uses its money and lobbyists to destroy democratic institutions. Meet singles at DateHookup.dating, we're 100% free! Join now!
6/6/2017 9:22:00 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	Someone else will own it...same shit different day...just the faces changed.
6/6/2017 9:34:25 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
easttowest72 Bremen, GA 45, joined Sep. 2014	I'll put the title to my brain in the coffee can with all my money
6/6/2017 9:39:17 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
mr_1234m Louisville, KY 51, joined Apr. 2014	My brain doesn't recognize the thought processes of those living in the land of the libtard so... <--- Safe
6/6/2017 10:00:54 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Excerpt: Mass culture is a potent and dangerous counterrevolutionary force. It creates a herd mentality. It banishes independent and autonomous thought. It destroys our self-confidence. It marginalizes and discredits nonconformists. It depoliticizes the citizenry. It instills a sense of collective futility and impotence by presenting the ruling ideology as a revealed, unassailable truth, an inevitable and inexorable force that alone makes human progress possible. Mass culture is an assault that, as Gramsci wrote, results in a “confused and fragmentary” consciousness or what Marx called “false consciousness.” It is designed to impart the belief to the proletariat that its “true” interests are aligned with those of the ruling class, in our case global corporatism. We are a product not of nature, Gramsci wrote, but of our history and our culture. If we do not know our history and our culture, and accept the false history and culture manufactured for us, we will never surmount the forces of oppression. The recovery of memory and culture in the 1960s by radical movements terrified the elites. It gave people an understanding of their own power and agency. It articulated and celebrated the struggles of working men and women and the oppressed rather than the mythical beneficence of the oppressors. It exposed the exploitation and mendacity of the ruling class. And that is why corporatists spent billions to crush and marginalize these movements and their histories in schools, the culture, the press and in our systems of entertainment. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/antonio_gramsci_and_the_battle_against_fascism_20170604
6/6/2017 10:03:43 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	"Mass culture" another meaningless made up phrase...all culture is "mass" that's how it becomes a "culture"
6/6/2017 10:23:02 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from Olaf_the_german: "Mass culture" another meaningless made up phrase...all culture is "mass" that's how it becomes a "culture" Speaking of meaningless shit, that's a tangent, dude. Why did you so quickly look for a way out of the conversation? "Mass culture is the set of ideas and values that develop from a common exposure to the same media, news sources, music, and art. Mass culture is broadcast or otherwise distributed to individuals instead of arising from their day-to-day interactions with each other."
6/6/2017 10:25:30 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	Speaking of meaningless shit, that's a tangent, dude. Why did you so quickly look for a way out of the conversation? Um it's a direct response to something you posted...hence not a tangent...maybe look the word up if you are unsure of it's meaning
6/6/2017 11:32:53 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
mr_1234m Louisville, KY 51, joined Apr. 2014	You could make it tomorrows "Word of the Day"
6/6/2017 11:39:43 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
bumblebee7 Fort Payne, AL 62, joined Apr. 2011	An obvious answer: if people ever get to the point, that land is free again and they build their own house from raw materials off the land and are totally self sustaining on that land and don't have to buy anything. So, op when will the hate churches lose ownership of your mind?
6/6/2017 11:47:18 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
mylegsarecold Gainesville, FL 55, joined May. 2011	They don't own my brain, do you see me mindlessly copying and pasting shit like you? No, you don't. Condor, you have a closed mind.
6/6/2017 1:24:10 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
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6/6/2017 6:48:12 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from mylegsarecold: They don't own my brain Of course they do! They do such a good job of owning your brain that you actually believe that you came up with the idea all by yourself that a tiny gaggle of rich people raping the fking shit out of all the rest of us is "the best system ever!" I'll let the great Albert Einstein explain it further. --------------- Why Socialism?** by Albert Einstein https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ Excerpt: Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
6/7/2017 1:31:44 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	Quote from condor_0000: Of course they do! They do such a good job of owning your brain that you actually believe that you came up with the idea all by yourself that a tiny gaggle of rich people raping the fking shit out of all the rest of us is "the best system ever!" I'll let the great Albert Einstein explain it further. --------------- Why Socialism?** by Albert Einstein https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ Excerpt: Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. dude, just because you ended up as a LOSER financially, fiscally, intelligently, and psychologically does not mean the system is broke. had your ancestors been more intelligent than what you are now and done something, you might be one of them silver spoon breast fed pups too. what a loser and jealous of the wealthy at that. go jump off a bridge where there is no water tired of my taxes feeding the [worthless] LIKE YOU!! [Edited 6/7/2017 1:32:55 AM ]
6/7/2017 1:35:02 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from iam_resurrected: dude, just because you ended up as a LOSER financially, fiscally, intelligently, and psychologically does not mean the system is broke. had your ancestors been more intelligent than what you are now and done something, you might be one of them silver spoon breast fed pups too. what a loser and jealous of the wealthy at that. go jump off a bridge where there is no water tired of my taxes feeding the [worthless] LIKE YOU!! You shouldn't talk about Albert Einstein like that. He is considered by many to be one of the leading thinkers of all time.
6/7/2017 1:45:19 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	Quote from condor_0000: You shouldn't talk about Albert Einstein like that. He is considered by many to be one of the leading thinkers of all time. Einstein was not wealthy either. and the bluebloods of America do not effect my income or job security one bit. if they effect your livelihood then you chose the path of ignorance to survive by and why you are a failing now.
6/7/2017 4:48:23 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
bumblebee7 Fort Payne, AL 62, joined Apr. 2011	Condor: Thru these hate whitey churches you attend....It appears they are trying to teach its congregation...the same things that the Terrorist are trying push on people around them...about the West. So, with that in mind, when you make these threads of yours, do you have bombs strapped to your body? If so...you do realize that if someone flames you really good and that pushes you to setting off the bombs, that you'll only blow yourself up and not the forums. You do realize that...right?
6/7/2017 10:15:51 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your f**king brains. You think what they tell you to think.
6/7/2017 10:17:20 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	Quote from condor_0000: How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your f**king brains. You think what they tell you to think. Who owns your brain? The reptilians from Zeta Ritiuli 4? ?
6/7/2017 10:36:01 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
mylegsarecold Gainesville, FL 55, joined May. 2011	Quote from condor_0000: How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your f**king brains. You think what they tell you to think. Jesus fed an entire village with a fish. Socialism, everybody gets fed, but you only get a teeny weeny little bit fed cause you have to share a whole fish with the entire village.
6/7/2017 10:49:27 AM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	Quote from condor_0000: How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your f**king brains. You think what they tell you to think. they most certainly own yours since you are here daily complaining about those who have succeeded while you continue to fail. here is a song you should learn and get acquainted with: Nobody's Fault But MINE Zep https://youtu.be/hJeGrLJ6dOI
6/7/2017 3:19:17 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from iam_resurrected: they most certainly own yours since you are here daily complaining about those who have succeeded while you continue to fail. here is a song you should learn and get acquainted with: Nobody's Fault But MINE Zep https://youtu.be/hJeGrLJ6dOI Nice little rant, but you avoided the topic as did your fellow right-wing BFFs. How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your f**king brains. You think what they tell you to think.
6/7/2017 3:20:34 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	Answer: the ruling-class owns your fking brains. You think what they tell you to think.** Says the master of copy/paste
6/7/2017 3:21:44 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
mylegsarecold Gainesville, FL 55, joined May. 2011	That's not true, when they tried to get everyone to switch to Coke or Pepsi I stayed with root beer. They don't own me.
6/7/2017 3:26:41 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from Olaf_the_german: Answer: the ruling-class owns your fking brains. You think what they tell you to think. Says the master of copy/paste Ho, ho, ho! Ha, ha, ha! Boy, that is a real knee slapper! Of course, I'm not posting a bunch of contradictory crap that a tiny gaggle of self-serving, super-rich, parasitic, ruling-class elites would like for us all to believe. Which brings us back to this: How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. Answer: the ruling-class owns your fking brains. You think what they tell you to think.
6/7/2017 3:28:46 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	The Irony of this guy calling everyone else brainwashed when all he does is regurgitate fruitloop nonsense..and then gets butthurt when he's called on it
6/7/2017 3:51:35 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	Quote from condor_0000: Nice little rant, but you avoided the topic as did your fellow right-wing BFFs. i am right on topic. you are btching because people are successful in life and you never were. i get it. and now sadly for you it is too late. if you do finally learn then don't worry. you won't have enough time left to make an impact anyways so just accept it for what it is, you [SUCK]!! How did all you right-wing capitalism lovers come to embrace the contradiction of loving the socialist, Jesus, with all your hearts? I mean, you despise all other socialists. i do not have to believe in Yahshua at all. no one is forcing me. neither is Yahshua forcing me to accept Him. so his average on being accepted is the [LOWEST] ever for a true so-called capitalist. that would make Him a failure in the business world. which makes you clearly off the mark once again pertaining your opinion towards Christ. Answer: the ruling-class owns your fking brains. You think what they tell you to think. i have never brought up the ruling class in any thread pertaining to such accusations. i hardly think of the ruling class at all. they have no bearing on anything i do in life. would make better sense to assume the one preaching against the "ruling class" would be the hole that is most festered.*
6/7/2017 5:25:51 PM	What Will Happen When Capitalists Lose Ownership of Your Brain?
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	"I'm a right-winger and it occurred to me all by my-independent-minded-self, just like it did every other right-winger, that I love right-wing politics and capitalism; I utterly despise all socialists; and I love the socialist, Jesus, with all my heart. Nobody told me to think that and I don't see any contradiction there at all." -- Right-wingers "I'm a right-winger and I hate big government so f**king much! But I love the big-government military, the big-government police-state, the big-government CIA and NSA, and the big-government border patrol. Nobody told me to think that. I came up with it all by myself and I don't see any contradiction there at all." -- Right-wingers "I'm a right-winger and I think that the best thing we can do for the economy is to give rich capitalists huge tax cuts. Because cutting taxes for rich capitalists is truly great for all of us. We all benefit when rich people get richer. They will ensure that all of that great wealth trickles down to the working-class who will be surrendering all that money to them. We can trust them when they say that because they are our capitalist daddies and they would never use the media they own to feed us all a bunch of ridiculous, self-serving lies. Nobody told me to think that. I came up with it all by myself and I don't see any contradictions there at all." -- Right-wingers "I'm a right-winger and I believer that capitalism is the greatest system ever! EVER! This is true even as capitalism impoverishes more than 90% of the world's people, produced two world wars and a host of other wars and is today threatening a third world war, has killed hundreds of millions of people, has introduced nuclear bombs to the world, is leading humanity to a climate-change catastrophe and subsequent extinction within 100 years, and requires tens of trillions of dollars in bailouts for it to survive. Nobody told me to think that. I came up with it all by myself and I don't see any contradictions there at all." -- Right-wingers [Edited 6/7/2017 5:26:16 PM ]

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