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Gramsci and The Frankfurt School
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Marx wanted to ignite a Marxist collective consciousness by exposing capitalist exploitation & alienation, focusing on the class slice of the wheel to rally the proletariat worldwide against bourgeois rule, while sidelining ethnos for universal class struggle.

Gramsci wanted to raise a Marxist collective consciousness in the West by subverting & dismantling bourgeois cultural dominance (the "power" side of the wheel), seeing it as a false consciousness that hides the emancipatory goal of Marxism, while navigating ethnos as a barrier.

Horkheimer & Adorno aimed to dismantle the Western collective consciousness tied to capitalism and ethnos using critical theory and then raise a Marxist collective consciousness among the oppressed part of the wheel.

Marcuse - pretty much the same as Horkheimer & Adorno, but he used aesthetic & erotic liberation to try to build a retarded utopian Marxist collective consciousness, targeting marginalized ethnos (e.g., non-Western, oppressed) to challenge the "Power" ethnos (e.g., "White," "Western"), with (being a coomer) Eros used to prevent the "negation of the negation" sliding into fascism so 'It will work this time™."

Simone de Beauvoir aimed to dismantle Western collective consciousness tied to patriarchal capitalism using existentialist critique and she focused on raising a feminist collective consciousness among women.

Foucault. Well he basically drew the power dynamic of the wheel. He was also really big into the sexual orientation" slice of the wheel in a super pervy way. Sure, he said he did it to challenge oppressive norms and spark resistance, but he was a creepy perv.

Rubin viewed the wheel’s sexual & gender norms as a repressive apparatus of “power,” sustaining a moral hierarchy that keeps the “marginalized” out. She aimed to spark a collective consciousness by liberating taboo desires and pushing the “Outer Limits” into the mainstream. Her teleology centered on revealing how capitalism & patriarchy police sexuality, and then to smash that moral order.

Judith Butler looked at the wheel’s neat identity slices and said, “They're all performances enforced by power.” So, instead of rallying one group against another, her argument was a perpetual undoing of the binaries themselves-turning the wheel into a big swirl, like a toilet.

What it's like to ̷r̷e̷a̷d̷ experience Judith Butler