It’s a pretty interesting case study.

anarcho mod goes on fox news (which is not news) interview unprepared, and despite the community telling them not to.

interview lasts 3 minutes, mod does not make a coherent argument (because they did not explain any of them, just replied to whatever last point the host made).

People on their subreddit called them out on it.

Mods close the subreddit of 1.6 million members. They say they’ll be back soon.

---

Where did it go wrong?

If you are going into an interview, you are playing by their rules and they will break them. The host has been doing this for years and they have a team at their back. They picked you specifically for the interview, ask yourself why is that? Does that mean you should not do interviews? Not necessarily. They can give publicity. But you need to be absolutely 100% prepared and coached. Make demands of your own. You want me for an interview, I want to do it in a studio because I don’t want to show my house. I won’t do the interview myself, I’ll give you someone else who is much better prepared. They have their trump cards (pun intended), and you are allowed to have yours. Don’t play into their expectations, come up with expectations of your own.

(In the case of refusing the interview you should expect that they will publish your response as well so have fun with it. I would have told them Fox news is not real news and we only accept requests from real outlets)

But the problems started earlier when the subreddit was made by anarchists. Then they started banning MLs for being one, but had no problem accepting liberals and conservatives. This is why we say that theory is important; I read the transcript of the interview and the few arguments the host made were easily debunked. Going into a pre-written script and ignoring the questions would have yielded even better results.

Anarchism is the ideology of the petite bourgeoisie, as it promotes the liberation of the petite bourgeoisie. It is an individualist ideology, and that is how we got to an anarchist moderator thinking they were not only allowed, but right to go against the wishes of their members and do the interview and just wing it.

And now the subreddit is closed. The worst move possible, just to save the ego of a person who had no business being in that interview.

I’ve said before that the internet is not a place for organising. It’s not where the fight happens. But it is a place to funnel people towards real means. And now 1.6 million people are locked out of that funnel – but the problems did not appear after the interview, they’ve been here since the beginning.

Especially when you consider that 2021 has been amazing in terms of labour rights in the USA. The unions, the strikes.

This is, once again, an exhibit that proves we need marxism-leninism and nothing else.