To be fair, it never worked. Debate-as-bloodsport is largely a bourgeois way of viewing ideological conflict. Leftist pedagogy is more collective than classic models. The idea of a “marketplace of ideas” assumes that logical victors of an argument survive, but instead people license themselves into agreeing with that which they believe benefits them. The ruling class further propogates ruling class ideology, and uses this idea of a “winners survive” debate market to legitimize the prevalence of bourgeois ideology as such due to logically surviving, even if it never did. The marketplace of ideas is a sham.
They generally do still! The internet has given both alternate means of subverting and enforcing cultural hegemony. This struggle of underground vs. above-ground ideological conflict has historically unfolded in similar ways. We need to advance and understand how best to gain leverage, asserting proletarian ideology. Leftist pedagogy is understudied for how critical it is.
How did the “market of ideas” work prior to the internet?
To be fair, it never worked. Debate-as-bloodsport is largely a bourgeois way of viewing ideological conflict. Leftist pedagogy is more collective than classic models. The idea of a “marketplace of ideas” assumes that logical victors of an argument survive, but instead people license themselves into agreeing with that which they believe benefits them. The ruling class further propogates ruling class ideology, and uses this idea of a “winners survive” debate market to legitimize the prevalence of bourgeois ideology as such due to logically surviving, even if it never did. The marketplace of ideas is a sham.
i was gonna say that prior to the internet the ruling class had a monopoly on public opinion but that works too
They generally do still! The internet has given both alternate means of subverting and enforcing cultural hegemony. This struggle of underground vs. above-ground ideological conflict has historically unfolded in similar ways. We need to advance and understand how best to gain leverage, asserting proletarian ideology. Leftist pedagogy is understudied for how critical it is.