Welp, welcome to the World of Bourgeois Media - where it is one of the many mediums for the Superstructure to achieve the monochromatic (self-reflexive) Dialectical spiral and tells itself what it wants to hear about itself for the Trauma it created itself (the Myth). For the Superstructure is an equal partner and struggles with the Base to keep each it in check and functioning for their own survival, as does the Base with the Superstructure for the same reason.
- To quote Walter Benjamin: "Behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution."
- Hegel on History on history: "What we learn from (Reflexive) History is that we don't learn from (documented) history."
I have yet to read Hegel, I did pick up a copy of," the phenomenology of spirit" last week. My girlfriend works at a bookstore and they were having a sale for employees so I've got a lot of new reading to do. I'll pick up a copy of history on history next time I have the money for a book run.
The manipulation of the base is so blatant now days that even the ruling class are using it to their advantage. The whole concept of,"fake news" is doing two thing in my perspective.
1)Creating a situation where questioning of the validity and honesty of the media is now considered a right wing "conspiracy" that isn't founded in reality
2)trump is using it as a means of gaining support from those who are inclined to question the authority of the capitalist state and system.
With this they are creating a situation where any criticism of the media is coupled with groans by the common person. The damn Bourgeois really know exactly what they are doing.
I suggest if you're going to get a book on Hegel talking about history, get Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History then. And I say, Capitalist Realism was the project of NeoLiberalism when they saw the dissolution of the USSR and knew they can easily shock the Base to force a change in the Superstructure to drop the Keynesian Social Democratic Project for the Rate of Profit they had to hemorrhage for who knows how long.
Even Stalin predicted this a long time ago that if the USSR will fall:
prophetic Stalin quote.
Keynes was wrong about the inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment.We saw this during the stagflation during the 70's here in the united states. Which even so, we did see a resurgence of Keynesian economic thought during the Obama years.
The federal reserve had several rounds of quantitative easing after the crash of 2008, to try and increase aggregate demand to try and deal with the unemployment and underemployment that the crash caused.
Which Keynes was a fool, his goal of having full employment is impossible as long as a market economy is our reality.
The cheap price of labor is dependent upon the reserve army of labor, as Marx so eloquently put it. So unemployment serves a function is a capitalist economy,meaning that full employment would have drastic consequences in the labor sector and productive sector by increasing the price of labor, which would increase the price of good or cause,"cost push inflation".
Keynes tried to solve one of the inherit contradiction of capitalism, but you can't fix capitalism at all. Reform will always have reaction.
Which is what we are seeing with the domination of Milton Friedmans neo-liberalisms. The dominate economic policy is,"oh, the market will figure it out for us". Which the irony of all this is that neo-liberalism essentially caused the crash in 2008 to begin with. The housing market was left alone and what did we get?
The whole capitalist system is absurd in and of itself.