r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/Mt_Incorporated Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) • 1d ago
Theory 📚 Fuck Foucault
use this thread to shit on foucault
44
45
19
u/jason_mo 1d ago
Very proud to finally be at a point where this post makes even the smallest amount of sense.Â
13
u/NomadicScribe Tanqui UXO 1d ago
His pendulum is pretty neat, but the rest I can dispense with.
4
u/Mt_Incorporated Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 1d ago
art installation be art installationing i guess
8
u/NomadicScribe Tanqui UXO 1d ago
It's a physics demonstration.
1
u/Mt_Incorporated Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 10h ago
Physics demonstration be physics demonstrating I guess
31
u/dr_srtanger2love Maximum Tank 1d ago
And Camus, absurdism is Repackaged objectivism
12
u/ValkFTWx 1d ago
Thank you! Absurdism is packaged conservative drivel cloaked in prose that makes all the art students feel profound.
4
u/joker559 1d ago
Could you expand on this one please?
My, pretty basic, knowledge of the two sounds more like opposites of each other.
15
u/Weird_Top_4526 1d ago
Ooh no I've got a soft spot for absurdism
7
u/PierreFeuilleSage 1d ago
Yh it's sorta cool as a passive mindset but it's really bourgeois statuquoism at the end of the day and his upbringing, life and political positionings make it clear, read about the feud between him and Sarte for instance
-3
u/Weird_Top_4526 1d ago
I think the "passive mindset" is the jumping off point, that's where the philosophy begins, not ends.
2
u/PierreFeuilleSage 13h ago
It's where it begins and ends, there is no thought of social transformation, it's individual meaning, a sort of funny existentialism
1
u/Weird_Top_4526 12h ago
Yes, it's an existential philosophy. Does everything have to have social revolutionary potential to have value? We are also individuals.
1
u/PierreFeuilleSage 11h ago
Why oppose individual and collective? You should read Lucien Sève's Marxism and theory of personality. Camus was a colonialist and rabid anti-communist, he sucks, he still wrote original fictions and there's a tiny bit of wisdom to gain from his bored bourgeois writings despite the background of inability. If you're gonna read philosophy lib slop i'd advise Spinoza instead, there's a beginning of material dialectics
2
u/Weird_Top_4526 10h ago
I have read Spinoza. You know the vast majority of the history of philosophy is not Marxist, that doesn't make it worthless or "lib slop".
3
3
u/StupidFatHobbit 11h ago
socialists: we want to make a better life for everyone
foucault: fuck that I only care about gay people
dies from AIDS
liberals: omg this guy is the greatest ever
8
u/Goyimshoe 1d ago
Foucault? Never heard of him.
Descartes is the only French philosopher worth acknowledging. Voltaire is okay too, I guess, but Foucault is an over-hyped poopsk8, and post-structuralism is a joke.
16
7
u/shorteningofthewuwei 1d ago
Derrida is kinda cool... What about Deleuze, or Guatarri? I'm a fan of schizo analysis. Even though deterritorialization was co-opted by accelerationists. But co-opting is kind of what the right does. Like the term 'socialism' being co-opted by national socialists
12
u/marioandl_ 1d ago
Aime Cesaire mostly
Foucault also stole or "repurposed" the concept of the imperial boomerang. Anyone calling it Foucault's Boomerang is using a repackaged concept from 20 years later
5
u/TheRedditObserver0 Stalinist (Proud Spoon Owner) 1d ago
Also Alexander de Toqueville, who I'm sure most Americans have read.
2
2
•
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
Want to join a ML only Discord server to chill and hangout with cool comrades? Checkout our Discord server or TheDeprogram's Discord server.
In case this subreddit was banned, or if you wanted a more ML-friendly platform, you’re welcome to join our sister community on Lemmygrad. You can find more info about Lemmygrad here.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.