One issue I have with the way my society (capitalist, settler-colonialist, patriarchal, etc.) is structured is just how deeply #inhumane and #inhuman it is. The #culturalhegemony that serves the ruling/owning class, wherein one’s value is reduced to one’s productivity, is contrary to healthy human development, and is a stark denial of so much of human history - actively inhuman & inhumane. We need to rebuild better/more human #socialstructures.
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#gramsci #leftism

The Twitter ban of IGD_News (Its Going Down). Is yet again more proof of why we can't fight capitalist cultural hegemony from within institutions like Twitter, doing so will only make our struggle harder in the long term.

#CulturalHegemony #gramsci #twitter #itsgoingdown #elonmusk

There’s a type of US user of social media that goes around issuing pronouncements about politics and history and what and who should be centred or included in discussions in blissful ignorance of how focused they themselves are on their national preoccupations and how they obliterate cultural diversity by forcing them on others. It’s time to let the #CulturalHegemony go, folks. You’ll have a more interesting time, I promise.

An important part of the revolutionary struggle is hegemonic struggle. Elon Musk's handling of Twitter is further evidence that we can not bring about a new hegemony utilising the institutions of capitalist cultural hegemony. If a new hegemony is to become a reality we must fight that hegemonic struggle from within our own new autonomous counter-hegemonic institutions.

#theory #AntonioGramci #elonmusk #CulturalHegemony #twitter

So, an #Introduction.

I'm Wolfgang, a #Philosopher by training, #Facilitator by trade and late-coming social #Activist. Born and grown up in Germany, I currently live in #London where I work on #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI) and #MovementEcology.

As a facilitator, I help people think together: build shared #MentalModels and do collective #Sensemaking.

I have been active in the #ClimateJustice movement since early 2019 and am on a political journey further left ever since.

(I'm increasingly sceptical of the left/right framing, though, and for a very #Leftist reason: It serves conservative/capitalist #CulturalHegemony by masking #Inequality and #Oppression with an illusion of moral neutrality.)

I'm a nerd about #Complexity, #ConceptualEngineering and theories of #Consciousness, think via #Notetaking and live with two fantastic #Dogs.

I value #Abstraction over analogy, #Artrock over Alternative and #AnimalRights over agribusiness.