Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "US protests and Marxist critique of Žižek, Foucault, Arendt u0026 Frankfurt School (w Gabriel Rockhill)" video.

  1. Wow, Dr. Rockhill is really astute in his observation on how the American empire function; by pretending very hard that it is not an empire. It's all virtue signalling and huge amount of projection, accusing the others first of their own crimes. I took a college course on US foreign relation history as an elective and the professor posed a question asking if the US is an empire. He spent the whole lecture on how the US cannot be defined as an empire. Looking back, I can see that his arguments are mostly semantics and purity tests, and really do not go into the core of what empires actually are and do. American intelligentsia themselves know that the US is a country of contradictions and I find a lot of them are deliberately blind to American style neocolonialism, financial colonialism, and cultural colonialism and a large part of historical contexts that put America functionally, a defacto empire. Like what Debord expounded in his Society of Spectacle, America is an empire of spectacle.
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