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I can't comment of the french theory part, and navel gazers are always going to exist.

It's unfortunate (but not surprising) that Marxism was intentionally hijacked by agents of capital at the expense of humanity as the link point out.

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The extreme recoiling and rejection of the clearly obvious idea that most left-wing movements were hilariously co-opted by the IC circa the 60s (likely continuing now) and that critical theory specifically is co-opted, is evidence of it happening. We've both posted multiple articles showing evidence of this, but folks in this thread get big mad when you bring this up.

Btw, if you want a rejection of meta-narratives without fashionable nonsense, go read STIRNER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner

I think one hangup for a lot of people here is that they picture the mechanics as having to be something like "the CIA groomed Frankfurt School writers as witting agents from birth" when in reality, it's more like these guys were just selected from the huge menu of takes vendors as having the correctly calibrated mix of left wing appeal and non- or anti-revolutionary compatibility.

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