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This article on 'accountable corporate capitalism' is what I am basically getting at on this topic

Corporate Liberal 2.0 bias and Liberal 2.0 media bias both include a pronounced *centrist bias 

My views on the MSM are based mostly on the views expressed in this article by the C4ss "Some Social Challenges That Won’t Magically Go Away With a Biden Presidency". Any view I express below on the MSM in this post etc that doesn't at least somewhat mesh with that, take with a grain of salt.:

My anti Corporate Liberal 2.0 crusade is me trying to make good on the goal by Indivisible to "save American democracy" and to "resume the project of creating a humane America .I am doing this by me trying to move us leftward to be as left as a social democracy at minimum while forcing the US to stop being a corporate plutocracy

The political compass has a liberal 2.0 bias, so it makes the confusion. Seeing certain ideologies as less liberal than they are comes from a very economically liberal view of ideal capitalism 

On this screenshot meme: PCM posts generally use libleft to refer to liberals, obviously it's not what I would consider libleft though. Ironically enough, once you understand that, this could almost fit in this area since yeah the CNN endorsed flavor of BLM means having a gay black HR rep and considering that countercultural, rather than advocating for an end to policing as we know it which is a more genuine lib-left take.

There is a mote of truth in this: corporate america loves the aesthetic of the orange lib left (Liberal 2.0), but they hate the politics.  So at the very least there is an orange libleft liberal 2.0 corporate bias by and thus with that I absolutely agree. Proper leftism is not at all what the establishment wants.

In reply to this article by Slavo Zizek and its relation to my points on rainbow capitalism corporatism:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/woke-alt-right-fake-civil-war-between-capitalist-interests-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-08

It sounds similar to this piece from the Claremont Institute: 

"We are seeing a new capitalism where] private capital accumulation is permitted but dissent from the agreed norms of the media-government-academy, once the privilege of individuals and corporations, is now largely verboten.

Profits are fine in this arrangement but only if they do not increase the material consumption of the populace while allowing new advantages to select racial or lifestyle minorities. The new corporatism is not bad for established capitalists but offers little to the middle or working classes, or, for that matter, to smaller independent businesses.

So this is no longer true capitalism; it is being restrained for the benefit of certain minorities; this hurts the working and middle classes.

Corporate Liberal 2.0 media like the NY Times doing hit pieces on that could prove my points in that post but it pro

But why are Zizek using the above type of Claremont Institute right leaning narrative that fighting racism and sexism amounts to ignoring the class struggle? 

We have racialized patriarchal capitalism in our society (that quote from Karl Marx was a little reductive in my opinion; what we have are palimpsests of ongoing oppression) and the only effective fight involves dealing with the whole of that. IMHO. I really don't know how to understand Zizek other than as someone refusing to see past the limited perspective of his privilege.

So we should follow the lead of Cedric Robinson here in Black Capitalism (see here for more)

I don't think Zizek is going all out in saying that. Maybe he is just observing that the left (liberal 2.0s not real left likely) has taken on the mantle of rainbow capitalism that is about saying the right things while defending the current system.

But what Zizek doesn't get is that most leftists liberal 2.0ers in my experience, which includes those in the workers' movement and those in "identity" movements, labor to produce praxis that deals with interlocking matrices of oppression and understand capitalism to be the system which is composed of them.

But then again the mainstream liberal 2.0 left's most influential leaders/thinkers aren't really concerned with labor, at least in the western world. I don't doubt that there is good activity on the ground among many leftists but the mainstream isn't there. But luckily in some places in the US there might be a lot of left wing support for the labor movement, indivisible from hostility to the "isms."

I am not saying fighting bigotry and special oppression amounts to ignoring the class struggle. In fact, Marxists like me have very specific analyses of such issues, and we are generally involved in fighting them. That is something very different from what is called woke politics.

At the same time, as i've said this a billion times but:

The biggest cable news channel in the United States is Fox News, a conservative news channel.

The biggest newspaper in the United States is the Wall Street Journal, a right-wing newspaper.

The NYT, CNN, MSNBC, and WaPo regularly bash leftists in other countries like Evo Morales and were vehemently opposed to Bernie Sanders, a milquetoast Social Democrat.

ULINE, Disney, and Blackstone gave millions of dollars to Donald Trump.

PragerU and Turning Point USA receive billions of dollars from big business and millionaires. There is no left-wing version of these groups.

The most popular cable news anchor in the United States is Tucker Carlson, a borderline white nationalist (though see his interview with Adam Carolla in 2023) and semi fascist

Republicans control the house at the moment.

40% of homeless people are LGBTQ+.

It's legal to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in housing in the majority of US states.

Same sex marriage has only been legal in the United States since 2015.

Same-sex activity was banned in 14 states until 2003.

The vast majority of police unions, i.e. groups of people responsible for supposedly carrying out the law, have endorsed Donald Trump.

Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, is a center-rightist who supports couping left-wing leaders.

CVS, Equinox, Wal-Mart, MillerCoors, Marvel, Pepsi, Home Depot and Chick-fil-A all donated to Trump's campaign in 2016.

Barack Obama, a Democrat, created the idea of making quotas for deportations, and was the one to set up concentration camps at the US' borders.

Federal police kidnapped protestors in June-August of this year (2020.)

Gary Webb, who exposed the role the US government played in the drug trade, was murdered and subject to character assasination in the media.

The de facto leaders of the Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, have both spoken out against defunding the police.

The mainstream neoliberal media regularly talks about the need for capitalism in the global south, and character assassinates leftist leaders.

Right wing populist leaders like Jair Bolsanaro and  Viktor Orban are never ever threatened with US action.

Do I need to go into how Bernie was completely shut down by the "left-wing" media?

and finally...

Former prez DONALD TRUMP, AGREES WITH THE HARD HARD RIGHT WING. THE FAR-LEFT WILL NEVER, EVER, NOT BE COUNTER-CULTURAL.

What if the corporations are profiting off the selling of anti-corporatism as part of their marketing strategy? Is this not meta-capitalism?

Also see this: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3066881960303002. 6 billionaires OWN ALL THE MEDIA. GO FIGURE. WELCOME TO FASCISIM 101. NEXT. This is why Nina Turner lost. The The Establishment's Continued ATTACKS on left leaning people like Nina Turner and Bernie Sanders is proof there is bias

We can't just blame the non liberal 2.0 types of conservatives, even if they do play into this Corporate Liberal 2.0 media bias it as much as they can. 

The lib left has been successful at radically changing the culture while nothing materially is changing for anyone. You can see it in the Democrat media, CNN, MSNBC, and especially NPR and public/community radio. 

Schools in Democrat voter areas are much more woke than they were just a few years ago. 

And then there are all the corporations who act woke to improve their ESG rating (which is understandable if true but still wrong). If you compare the culture to what it was 10 years ago things have changed drastically. This isn't all for the worse necessarily but it has created a chasm between left libs and conservatives to the point where there is no room to talk about actual working class issues.