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Marx was a scientist; Freud was a charlatan, like many Lacan followers. Several burnout groups and personalities in Latin America are supporting him
That Lacan did not read Freud isn’t my opinion; it’s the opinion of people who have read both. Besides, the argument is that you do not have to read Freud to understand Lacan or vice versa
He wrote a book titled Return to Freud, and many have argued that it is not a return to Freud.
When you read Marx, you know immediately that you are dealing with a scientist who has covered several scientific fields, including anthropology
These are the french philosophers who are darlings of the left
Louis Althusser (1918–1990): A leading structuralist Marxist who taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He wrote For Marx and Reading Capital, rethinking Marxist theory through structuralism and anti-humanism.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980): A famous existentialist who later tried to combine existentialism with historical materialism, most notably in his work Critique of Dialectical Reason.
Lucien Sève (1926–2020): A philosopher and long-time member of the French Communist Party known for his work on Marxist psychology and the theory of personality.
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991): A Marxist sociologist and philosopher who helped introduce critique of everyday life and spatial theory into Western Marxist thought
The political left engages with French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan because his structural theories of desire, language, and the “Big Other” provide powerful tools to critique ideology, capitalism, and irrational political behaviour.
While Lacan himself was not a traditional progressive or political revolutionary, major leftist thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau adopted his framework for several key reasons:
Critique of the Rational Subject
• Rejection of Liberal Individualism: Traditional political theory often assumes humans are rational, self-interested agents. Lacan showed that the human subject is fundamentally split and driven by an unconscious, unfulfilled desire.
• Explaining Irrationalism: Leftist analysts use Lacanian concepts to explain why people vote against their economic self-interest or get drawn into fascism, racism, and nationalism through emotional and unconscious investments.The Role of “Jouissance” (Enjoyment)
• Pleasure and Power: Lacan introduced jouissance—a complex term blending pleasure, pain, and transgression.
• Ideological Attachment: The left uses this concept to understand how individuals derive a perverse psychological “enjoyment” from political scapegoating, systemic hierarchies, or consumer capitalism, explaining why changing a political system requires shifting deep-seated psychic attachments, not just economic structures.Deconstructing Ideology and the “Big Other”
• Symbolic Orders: Lacan argued that reality is mediated by language and socially constructed symbolic systems (the “Big Other” or baseline authority structures).
• Subverting Norms: Because Lacan placed the subversion of identity and established norms at the centre of psychoanalysis, his work naturally aligns with critiques of power, state authority, and cultural hegemony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_psychology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology
These are much better professional fields than all those frauds about Sigmund Freud
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/11/zize-n12.html
Zizek in Manhattan: An intellectual charlatan masquerading as “left”
In Israel, they are doing the same thing, and children are writing messages on missiles. The new Colombian government is hiring children for the armed forces to combat communism and drug dealers. The new president was a defence lawyer for the drug cartels. He was an atheist, and now he is catholic
Freud the fraud. book review
The Socialist Party: Freud and Marx did they mix? Some leftists in Latin America think that both were advocating for a new, better world based on justice, which is not true ; only Marx advocated for a new society. Marx did not advocate for moral justice; he advocated for a new society
Freud and Marxism Part 1
Freud and Marxism part 2
I used the expression anti-Marxist because several of his followers were ‘Marxist’, and now they have raised negative opinions about Marx and ‘Marxism ‘, and several of them are not so much involved in the psychoanalytic conception; Lacan himself never read Sigmund Freud, and he never read Marx either. I know people who were Castroists, and now they are Lacanian.
This is the opinion of a Trotskyist group about him ( I have more from other groups, but some of them are in Spanish, and he has influenced several intellectuals in Latin America; this is a movement for intellectuals only ). Some of his followers do not know anything about psychology and medicine
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS), an online international publication of the Trotskyist movement, approaches the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan from a perspective of strict Marxist materialist dialectics.
The WSWS views Lacan and the broader post-structuralist movement as philosophically anti-materialist and politically counter-revolutionary. Their critique focuses on several core areas:
1. The Rejection of Objective Reality and Materialism
The WSWS categorises Lacanian psychoanalysis alongside post-structuralism and postmodernism, arguing that these frameworks reject objective reality and historical materialism. In their review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont’s Intellectual Impostures, the World Socialist Web Site argues that Lacan and other French theorists substituted rigorous, scientific investigation of society with absolute relativism, linguistic idealism, and the misuse of mathematical concepts.
2. Critique of the “Pseudo-Left” and Slavoj Žižek
Much of the WSWS’s direct criticism of Lacanian thought comes through its extensive polemics against the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. The WSWS designates Žižek as an “intellectual charlatan masquerading as ‘left'” and details how his reliance on Lacanian concepts serves to obfuscate class struggle. According to the WSWS, mixing Lacan with Marxism replaces concrete economic analysis and the revolutionary agency of the working class with irrationalism and bourgeois concepts of desire.
3. Rejection of Revolutionary Agency
From a political standpoint, the WSWS notes that Lacan himself rejected the prospect of communist revolution. The site argues that the rise of Lacanianism and postmodern thought in France was driven by a middle-class intelligentsia disillusioned by the failures of Stalinism and the general strike of May 1968. Instead of seeking to overthrow capitalism, Lacanian-influenced philosophy is seen as retreating into “micro-politics,” single-issue resistance, and an acceptance of structural alienation as an unchangeable facet of the human condition.
A great all-round article by Sam Fluss.
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Different to the false propaganda made by some right-wingers, anarchists and capitalists that he was a failure as a father and that he was a failure when he was a student. They do not mention that Marx was expelled from Germany and was exiled to other countries, and that most of them rejected him; finally, he was accepted in England.
Can not be called education; they are the centre of indoctrination for the future wage slaves and zombies and defenders of the capitalist system; there is no critical questioning.
In the USA, the Department of Education is governed by an expert on wrestling and boxing; she does not know the meaning of the word pedagogy, and she does not read any books. When I was young, teachers had personal libraries, and schools had a big library.
She is a millionaire who wants to run schools like a private corporation to make profits, and a curriculum to indoctrinate zombies and sheep.
They eliminated natural sciences, replaced them with witchcraft; natural history has been eliminated, real-world history has been eliminated, humanities are not part of the curriculum, evolution has been replaced by creationism, nationalism and patriotism are like mental diseases, ready to join the armed forces, and a bunch of external zombies and parents support that program.
When I was young, even catholic schools had a much better curriculum, and the directors were professional teachers; the curriculum motivated students to be critical thinkers, included natural sciences ( biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, world history, arts, philosophy, dictation, calligraphy, agriculture, and verbal examination was more important than written examination; teachers were part of our family, loved by the students
Universities had autonomy; some universities, the department of economics, had a class on political economy, and churches were not allowed inside the school campus; now they have pastors and fanatics shouting in every corner, selling mental poisons, the blind leading the blind, and they have mass on the campus. Catholic universities did not have classes on theology or apologetics.cs
Now, they hate teachers; they hate schools; they carry guns to school. The only gun that we carried was a textbook, and we had to read every day. In our time, students do not read anything; they spend all their time attached to smartphones, playing war games, and worshipping crazy movie artists. Because cinematography has been completely degenerated,
it is very hard for them to obtain class consciousness, and their parents are in the same social conditions
https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/18675/action/1?locale=en-GB
Millions of pigeons are dying
Pigeons are very important for our ecological system; they produce fertiliser and spread seeds for vegetation
We do not need fertiliser from petroleum or chemicals. Indians used what is known as Guano
They are lovely birds. I have a pigeon loft, and they produce a lovely sound in the morning
In Spain, they have very old Palomares, and in Colombia they are protected animals
It is a religious term used to indicate that an embryo or a fetus is a ‘human being”. They believe that humans were created by a supernatural ‘being” who created ” human beings”
It has been scientifically proven that creationism and theology ( religious apologetics) are false conceptions.
The book of Genesis, which was not written by a ghost named Moses, is one of the most anti-scientific books written by humans or scribes.
In Egypt, they have not found any evidence of Moses, and they used to keep records of everything
At school, we spent two years trying intellectually to prove the existence of phantoms and ghosts and the lake of fires.
They love fetuses, but they want children to be killed, and they do not care that more than 66,000 children are killed every day by capitalism.
They do not care that millions of mothers are dying due to lack of medical services or capitalist war.s
They carry a bible under their axilla like a deodorant.
The Christian nationalists are saying that the genocide in Gaza is the killing of devils.
If animals were religious, they would call many humans devils.
They love to carry guns and collect guns; pastors are carrying pistols as they did during the time of the Wild West.
I was using the term human being as a synonym for the animal Homo sapiens (or what is sometimes referred to as Homo sapiens sapiens in older texts).
The point I was making about the development of emotional attachment refers to all mammals not just placental mammals, so marsupial and monotremata. That’s why it’s called Mammalian Attachment.
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That is totally correct. A friend of mine, who is an anthropologist, says that we provide ‘human behaviours” to animals. I have been attached to animals since I was a child, and we were surrounded by different types of animals. My grandmother had a big backyard, and it was like a zoo, surrounded by a big garden, and we had fish ponds.
I breed birds (I have a garden), and when they are mature, I let them fly. Sometimes they come back because they are attached to my place, and they know that they have shelter, food and water;r, some of them know me, and they trust me, and they eat from my hands.
My son has two cats, and they know when he is arriving at the front door, and when he is not in the house, they get desperate. He has some kind of attraction to animals, and stray cats let him touch them. Some people hate the sound of the birds, but I love their sounds and singing; those are people who have lived a bitter life
I just purchased a reprinted version of a book that I had since 1969, and the new version on paper is much better than the old one that I have, with better paper, a better cover, and better fonts
https://www.usa.canon.com/learning/training-articles/training-articles-list/inkjet-vs-laser-printers-which-is-best-for-you?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24130829912&gbraid=0AAAAADxAOrwxOIXCDwdnoZnCoGxGjzz5o&gclid=Cj0KCQjwt9jVBhDXARIsAFSP-6dY_4bj9MAvF4rFG_PfUxnJtoD_rkoZbyFm5Z21Q9hTaKh7H1eClxkaArs7EALw_wcB. The old printing shop and newspapers the ink had toxic material, and the characters were made out of lead
