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What in the world is "self-exploitation"? More woke college student hooey?
by legerdemain 5y ago
What in the world is "self-exploitation"? More woke college student hooey?
- malermeister 5y agoSelf-exploitation is an ideological control mechanism of the bourgeoisie in modern capitalism, where, instead of outright coercion, more insidious mechanisms are used to extract surplus value from labor. By activating the worker's will to generate value and "empowering" them to partake in "hustle culture", they create a system in which they can seize surplus value while the subject isn't even aware of their own exploitation. (your comments are a prime example :)) See also the Gramscian notion of cultural hegemony for more details on the mechanisms at play here.
- legerdemain 5y agoYour explanation lost me at "Gramscian."
- malermeister 5y agoSorry to hear that - it's not that hard to understand if you put your mind to it! Glad to hear you made it pretty far though!
- legerdemain 5y agoIf you can't avoid hiding behind a po-mo smoke screen of gurus like Gramsci/Deleuze/Guattari/Adorno/whoever, maybe you don't have a very clear or even meaningful claim.
- malermeister 5y agoNot everything that goes above your head is a smoke screen :-)
- strathmeyer 5y agoWe aren't against social justice here.
- corinroyal 5y ago[flagged]
- onionisafruit 5y agoIt’s normal to call your political adversary stupid names. See also teabagger and qcumber.
- legerdemain 5y agoI don't think conservatives invented the word "woke." I think African Americans might have used the word before liberal arts students picked it up.