Marxist Mad Libs or How to use Marxist Conflict Theory to Divide and Destroy Anything!

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Karl Marx set out a conflict paradigm of dividing society into winners and losers and framing society as a zero-sum game to accelerate revolution. He used economic class as the wedge of division, but that isn't the only was you can divide people and turn them on each other - almost any characteristic or stratification which exists in society can and has been used: Race, gender, sexuality, even health, weight or normality.

This conflict paradigm shows up in almost every activist movement these days and the narrative that fuels the conflict is essentially a repeat of Marx's original assertion, so much so that you can play a game of "Mad-Libs" with them and see how they all fit the pattern.

See Also:

New Discourses: Queer Theory is Gender Marxism: https://youtu.be/JNW79czfibw

@ModernistRoast on twitter: https://twitter.com/ModernistRoast/status/1537241527285448706?s=20&t=bZLzeg9LNqMagZNbBIZIqw

Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pQrAXODJJWZpAA9Sww62bsYNbkQUNwBQdBKXkMxsHKI/edit?usp=sharing

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