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Premium – 282. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2 (Patreon)

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2023-09-12 22:23:41
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We discuss chapter two – Power and Marxism – which offers a survey of how Marxist theories of power have largely been caught between the two poles of violence and ideology. With power-as-violence, the focus has been on the changing roles of the state, its relationship with capital, and the ways it physically controls people. With power-as-ideology, the focus has been on the role of institutions and culture in shaping how people think, thus exercising forms of mental control over people. While both these traditions are valuable and necessary, as Mau argues, they offer a duality of power, rather than a trinity. That missing link? Mute compulsion.

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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Mau does an excellent job in filling in the gaps and challenging wrong-headed assumptions. However, I'm wondering how much of this theory is limited to capitalism, and how much is generally applicable to any dominant socio-economic system. e.g. any dominant, self-reproducing economic and social order will rely on ideology, violence, and "mute compulsion" (which I read as a form of coercive power that is not overtly physically violent). It may be naive and a stupid example, but in an Amish community, would "shunning" and the threat of being kicked out of the community also be a form of mute compulsion? e.g. the laziest member of the community can't be moved by threats of hellfire, or violence, but ultimately does work to sustain himself and the community mostly out of fear of being kicked out of the community. I'd imagine there are parallel examples in a feudal system as well.