Pill Pod 61 - Phenomenological Marxism & Revolution
Added 2021-11-19 13:36:59 +0000 UTCPhenomenology is sometimes viewed apolitically, today we try to get a handle on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological Marxism. See the attachments for the primary sources!
Comments
You have a great point here. Material realities break people out of their habits, but what comes next is determined by ideas, myths, and stories (and not by, e.g., science or something like pure rationality). I think it is worth repeating ideas even if they themselves will do nothing directly. But without ideas spread across the land, a revolution will likely fail.
Dalia
2023-01-09 17:35:51 +0000 UTCa leaf just flew in through my window. This...is what...I'm ..Talkin about.......
Andrew Mellett
2022-11-15 21:53:18 +0000 UTCI wanted to say a lot of things, so I want to listen to it again and write or I don't know, but one of the things that keeped going around my head was that yes, ideas don't make a revolution, but the material conditions are conditioned and filtered by ideas: the problems people face are mediated by mass and social media, by not only television and instagram, but that familiar whatsapp (I know in Canada no one uses it, but here is ubiquitous) where your uncle sends a bad meme with communism fear mongering, now more than ever, so when they think their friend earns more, politicians earn more, that they can't buy the products they want to buy, that they are unemployed because immigrants stole their jobs (all of this happening here, not that immigration causes unemployment, but the memetics of it), those are ideas that interpret the material world, so to speak, and have been manipulated (now seen by the huge ammount of support for the fascist candidate) (Sorry for the electoral optics of politics, but it is hot right now, and I'm fucking pissed)
Gonzalo Pacheco Covili
2021-11-23 17:40:48 +0000 UTCWhat a great episode, loved this, and while I was listening I kept seeing the parallels with what is happening here in Chile (that was before last weekend elections), then and now.
Gonzalo Pacheco Covili
2021-11-23 17:34:19 +0000 UTC
