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Social Media/Mass Media
Social Media/Mass Media, under the influence of market forces, functionally acts as a propaganda machine.
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Propaganda artwork is simultaneously an affirmation and a critique…
Art is more powerful if produced outside the art market and in the context of politics. Artists working for propaganda are truer to art than those who produce for the individual consumer. Every ideology whether political or religious has a vision or image behind it, whereas the art market does not. It merely circulates images.
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Dogs
Dogs, unlike us, are not cogs in the capitalist machine.
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Techno-Feudalism
The capitalist system is ruled more by brazen predation than by good old-fashioned labor exploitation. Capitalists increasingly rely on raw political power to coercively secure capital through everything from rents to cheap government-provided capital – a means of extracting surplus that looks a lot more like feudalism.
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Gender Rights
Gender rights are extremely democratic so they threaten authoritarian regimes that rely on traditional, unequal gender roles, heteronormativity, and especially the cult of masculinity. Gender hierarchy implied by “traditional values” contributes to many other social hierarchies which can be naturalized through gendered metaphors. If it is agreed the the “masculine” should be superior, it may
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Ideology
Ideology is not just political doctrine. What we are able to think, imagine, and say is a critical political issue. The dominant set of ideas, hegemony, conforms to the dominance of the ruling class while not being about the ruling class. Whoever controls language controls politics.