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Debord has been a well known figure in far right circles for a while now

• antioedipus 5y ago
  This website never fails to amuse me… What is the intention of this comment? That Debord is “far right” or a reactionary? That people who read him are? That it’s interesting that a Marxist philosopher is read by reactionaries?
  • 8b16380d 5y ago
    Just giving context to why Debord is apart of the zeitgeist these days. And Society and the Spectacle is certainly a reactionary text; no surprise it is read by other reactionaries.
  • pessimizer 5y ago
    An explanation for recent popularity. I was confused out of my mind when the entire country started talking about Saul Alinsky all of a sudden, until I heard that an alcoholic right-wing crackpot was screaming about him while drawing on a blackboard nightly on television. This happens a lot if you read books that aren't bestsellers. A thing that for decades you couldn't find a person who had heard of it suddenly is in television commercials and image macros because a character mentioned it in a movie, or some twitch streamer decided to rail about it for an hour, and it caught fire.
• narrator 5y ago
  Since you seem to be an expert on this kind of stuff, does the far left read the far right ever? If so, which authors?
  • 8b16380d 5y ago
    Couldn't tell ya, but I would think so.