As somebody who has been susceptible to quite a lot of political change over the years, I've observed a lot of reasons first hand as to why people move towar...
  • freagle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    The first 15 minutes of this video is whining about “other people” committing a No True Scotsman.

    The second 15 minutes of this video is whining about people who are “true anarchists” being “written out of history” as though understanding how people identify themselves is the most important aspect of understanding history and political philosophy.

    I love minute 20, that “Soviet hegemony” is responsible for the rise of “pro-communist alignment” in the West. This is such a laughable claim. The West was fundamentally dominated by anti-communist hegemony long before the October Revolution and that domination was never weakened by this supposed “Soviet hegemony”. And the “pro-communist alignment” in the West barely exists at all, and where it does, it is clearly not caused by Soviet hegemony, which had such little influence in the West, and where it did it was literally purged, twice, by the liberal establishment. This fact alone shows that if you believe there is a pro-communist alignment in the West, it’s arrived it syncretically, through a wide variety of paths, because there is no hegemonic path towards it.

    From minute 24, they clearly demonstrate that they are anarchists in “goal” only, which is a fundamental difference between anarchists and communists, including MLs. MLism is a HOW. Anarchocommunism is the why. MLism has never argued that the state is legitimate. In fact, MLism is clearly anti-state in its WHY and pro-state in it’s HOW. The debate between anarchism and MLism has ALWAYS been a debate about methodology.

    Ooooh, minute 29, great flub. Raising up “permaculture” without mentioning that permaculture is actually a white construction that appropriates indigenous science without giving credit.

    Minute 30 - no one cares that the author is an ideology hopper. The fact that this video took a full 30 minutes to finally say “I’ve never heard anyone argue effectively for using MLism to achieve the goals of the International Socialist movement” is a why the author likely gets so much grief from their discursive partners.

    What a waste of breath this entire video was.