The Chad Gramscian vs. The Virgin Sorelian (or what have you)
Writer Jacob Siegel made an observation to the effect of âThe American Right has left its Grasmscian period and entered its Sorelian Period.â I think what this means is that the Right is no longer seeking hegemony over cultural and political institutions, like it pursued during most of the history of the conservative movement, but has now shifted to a model of political action centered on myth and the redemptive power of violence.
Georges Sorel, an unorthodox French socialist writing around the turn of the last century, believed that myths, like the idea of a general strike or the cataclysmic Marxist revolution, provided the animating spirit for political movements: âThe myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act.â Myths cannot be refuted through factual disputation, they are not subject to scientific testing, etc.: they mobilize the passions and imagination. Sorel
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YouTube has been accused of censoring a popular Bob Dylan song because the lyrics contain hate speech. Neighborhood Bully, which was released by Dylan in 1983 in the wake of the Lebanon War and which many have interpreted as a pro-Israel anthem, was blocked from being uploaded by a user on YouTube and is unsearchable on the video site, according to an article by Tablet Mag writer Jacob Siegel.
Siegel said he tried to search the song on YouTube and noticed that it could not be found.
He later came across a Vimeo version of the song that contained a title-card that said the Russian version of the video was banned by YouTube as hate speech, Siegel wrote.