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    Sorry, but you have again provided a Gish gallop unrelated to the substance of my comment.

    First you ranted about anarchism, money, and vanguardism, and now about labor alienation.

    I specifically criticized the normalization of particular cultural constructs, such serial monogamy and career trajectory, that have become dominant under neoliberalism.

    Did I assert an expectation for money to remain in the distant future?

    Did I suggest that no one seeks meaning from productive activity?

    No and no.

    Did I ever “describe a post capital society as neoliberal”?

    Big fat fucking “No!”

    It is not worthwhile for me to unpack any more deeply.

    Perhaps you enjoy pontification and pedantry, but you seem uninterested in discussing or engaging in good faith.

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      but you seem uninterested in discussing or engaging in good faith.

      what exactly are you on about? you not understanding what liberalism, neoliberalism, class consciousness etc… actually mean is not me arguing in bad faith, I told you SEVERAL times that they clearly don’t mean what you think they mean and that you should read up on the subject mater.

      and I’m sorry, but monogamy and career advancement isn’t an exclusive to neoliberalism (you really think that only happened post thatcher?) and ironically in a communist system career advancement is still a thing.

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        you not understanding what liberalism, neoliberalism, class consciousness etc… actually mean is not me arguing in bad faith, I told you SEVERAL times that they clearly don’t mean what you think

        What do I think they mean?

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          it doesn’t matter what you think it means, in the same way you believing an elephant is something other than a large quadrupedal mammal with large ears and a long prehensile nose. so if you are talking about elephants and then talking about the effectivity of their claws and the hunting territory they maintain via markings on trees, it could be one of many other animals, but not an elephant. I don’t need to start guessing at whatever animal you have miss identified as an elephant, to tell you it isn’t an elephant.

          concepts like long term monogamy or the idea of a career arn’t inherently part of Liberalism nor neoliberalism, and only the career part tangentially part of class consciousness

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            You affirmed a belief of my not knowing the meanings of certain terms.

            If you gave such an assertion, and did so in good faith, then you should be able to give an explanation of how I am understanding the terms.

            Arguably, you should have sought more information before anchoring to such an narrow conclusion.

            What has been your motive in responding to my comment?

            Is your motive closer to an interest in broadening perspective and comprehension, or is it rather closer to an impulse for fostering discord and division?

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              You affirmed a belief of my not knowing the meanings of certain terms.

              because you show that you don’t know what they mean

              If you gave such an assertion, and did so in good faith, then you should be able to give an explanation of how I am understanding the terms. Arguably, you should have sought more information before anchoring to such an narrow conclusion.

              this is complete bullshit, and utterly disingenuous on your part, acting as if I have to construct your entire moral, political, social and economic system to tell you that you are fundamentally wrong, in something that you are demonstratively wrong on.

              What has been your motive in responding to my comment?

              calling out someone pulling a leftist cargo cult, because that generally harms the left by spreading misinformation and the idea that the left is the uninformed teens that the right paints us as.

              Is your motive closer to an interest in broadening perspective and comprehension, or is it rather closer to an impulse for fostering discord and division?

              don’t you have a crystal chakra realignment to get to? because this sounds like “spirit science”.

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                Based on your own enlightened, non-“cargo cult” understanding, from the books or other sources you would feel most inclined to recommend, how would you summarize the essential transitions in cultural ideals, respecting personal relationships and values, during neoliberalism?

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                  The defining difference between liberalism and neoliberalism is the expansion of a focus on the economics, mainly adapting and building on some of the differences between the east and west block during the fall of USSR, there fundamentally wasn’t a change in cultural ideals, personal relationships and values in comparison to its predecessors.