Why do all intellectuals of any worth resist capitalism? For

>>9149359
I didn't realize a question could be false until now. You've opened my eyes to new possibilities.

>>9149359
Dude socialism and weed lmao

>>9149359
congratulations on your first post anon

I've noticed that Mexican intellectuals love capitalism.

>>9149386

Third world intellectuals usually do.
They had their fill of socialism and are usually tired of trying out a language major's way of running things.

Today I dreamed of Lacan. I'm not even trying to make a joke, I really had a dream about him.
He was the leader of some kind of religious cult that I joined, but he molested. I could not just take it and I left the cult, but his men chased me. Somehow, I managed to escape the country I was in (it looked like Italy, for some reason), but the moment I stepped of the airplane in new lands, a goon approached me and said "Lacan sent me here", then I woke up.
Again, I'm not kidding, it really happened in my sleep.

Here in the post-soviet countries, any intellectual deemed to be worth his salt is fiercely pro-capitalist (euphemistically referred to as the free market), while anti-capitalists as seen as vestiges of the soviet past who have become stuck in time.

It's too bad, because all this neoliberalism is a lot more destructive to poor countries like this.

>>9149408
i'm sorry jacques lacan molested you in your dreams anon

>>9149409
>because all this neoliberalism is a lot more destructive to poor countries like this.
It's not great for second world post-soviet countries, but it's hugely beneficial to actual third world countries. Look at what capitalism did for India and China

>>9149408
Do you want to be friends? We can tell each other about our zany dreams and pretend to be intellectuals while talking about books or something.

>>9149359

Because intellectuals dream of a society in which their 'services' will always been worth something, i.e. a planned society. Capitalism is by definition the antithesis of social and economic planning.

>>9149423
Yeah, I guess, but the growth it does create is very patchy, leading to skyscrapers among slums. In the the third and second worlds, it creates its own version of hell, where the populace is essentially divided into two classes with a large gap in the middle, both resenting the other one.

>>9149359
Why do all intellectuals
who?

>For most of human history
when, exactly?

>they
who?

>were the mouth pieces of the status quo.
which status quo?

>Now
when, exactly?

>they're
who?

>all "raging against" it.
what?

>How did this happen?
what happen?

>tfw neither pure capitalism or pure communism have existed in any nation for a period longer than fifteen years.

>>9149359
>For most of human history they were the mouth pieces of the status quo.

During this time the only options for intellectuals were government or religion. Once the intellectual class was no longer exclusively tied to those domains, it was associated with critique of society.

>>9149474
under pure capitalims, lots of banks would've bankrup already.

>>9149465

Intellectuals have become so nuanced and egg shell walking cum gargling cucks that they can't even understand a question anymore without asking for the right context and group, while everyone else gets it.

>>9149359
>Why do all intellectuals of any worth resist capitalism? For most of human history they were the mouth pieces of the status quo.
The status quo was not capitalism.

>>9149376
Weed ban is around a century old.

Going against capitalism, communism, fascism is the same. You do not want to be a machine, a cog or a beast of burden to others. You want to be man.

>>9149359
>Why do all intellectuals of any worth resist capitalism?
They don't.

>For most of human history they were the mouth pieces of the status quo
That isn't true at all

>Now they're all "raging against" it.
Not true.

>How did this happen?
I think you're referring to the general Leftist leaning of modern academics. I know that Leftists gained significant power in the administrations of universities in the 1960s and 70s during the hippie era and Vietnam War Protests. Other than that, I couldn't tell you.

I'm more interested in knowing who you consider to be "an intellectual of any worth"

>>9149474
Communism hasn't ever existed on a national scale. Goes to show how stable those systems are in their pure forms

>>9149386
MEXICAN INTELLECTUALS

>>9149822
Capitalism hasn't ever existed on a national scale. Goes to show how stable those systems are in their pure forms

>>9149648
>Why do all intellectuals
who?

>For most of human history
when, exactly?

>they
who?

>were the mouth pieces of the status quo.
which status quo?

>Now
when, exactly?

>they're
who?

>all "raging against" it.
what?

>How did this happen?
what happen?