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We’re living through a political revolution centralizing state and economic power. It’s almost like the pendulum swung away from the Soviet system and now we’re
by softwaredoug 1y ago
We’re living through a political revolution centralizing state and economic power. It’s almost like the pendulum swung away from the Soviet system and now we’re swinging back.
- shafoshaf 1y agoThis is a great podcast on philosophy in general, but this episode on Technofeudalism https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SjdkYzdSp6tHTdD2o1OAe?si=815899471d5c434d https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SjdkYzdSp6tHTdD2o1OAe?si=8... talks directly about the state of Big Tech taking over the capitalist free market. The same as is happening with large scale industries like you mention.
- mckirk 1y agoI knew without clicking this would be Philosophize This. I friggin love that podcast, and keep recommending it to friends. The only problem I have with it is that I like to listen to it while driving, but I can't stop to take notes every five minutes.
- StefanBatory 1y agoIt makes me so happy that he's still going. I remember listening to him when I was like 15, and now I'm way older...
- RankingMember 1y agoThis podcast is one of my favorites to listen to while out riding my bike. Something about the cardio + his way of breaking down the core meaning behind philosophers' works is just a very edifying and enjoyable experience. I had no idea who Byung-Chul_Han was before listening to this podcast- he has a lot of interesting things to say about the current state of our capitalist society. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han )
- pstuart 1y agoIt's a fascist coup, and they're tidying up the loose ends.
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- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoFascism is the world's most evil people lying to the world's most stupid people about what fascism is.
- thrance 1y agoHuh? Can you expand on that? Is fascism completely devoid of meaning then?
- miltonlost 1y agoWhat he was doing is called a joke a la The Devil's Dictionary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary
- pstuart 1y agoWe're not supposed to get political here, but my comment was more observation rather than accusation. As for communism -- if you think the Dems are communists I recommend you research what communism really means. Disclaimer: I'm non-partisan and abhor partisan politics, but I do think the Constitution is a worthy document to try to adhere to as best possible.
- anthem2025 1y ago[flagged]
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- fooker 1y agoYeah, seize the means of production, indeed. Funny that this time this started from the right side of the political spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
- softwaredoug 1y agoI believe when you look at Germany, the Far Right party is much more popular in former Soviet strongholds (East Germany outside Berlin)
- fooker 1y agoIf you overload right to mean authoritarian, for sure. Good to remember that pretty much all leftist governments had to pivot toward authoritarianism 'for the greater good'.
- anthem2025 1y agoI don’t understand what you’re even trying to say here. AfD is objectively far more popular in the former east Germany. Look at a map of votes, it’s clear as day. The borders are exact. They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a far right party. It makes sense that the the economically struggling former communist areas would be both more drawn to extreme parties and have a distaste for the left.
- wqaatwt 1y ago> They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a far right party. They are a populist semi big tent party as well. They are not particularly coherent but there is some overlap between some of their policies and what some in the far-left might support (Euroscepticism, the Euro and such)
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- jacquesm 1y agoSlightly different location.