“Libertarian Stalinism” have no sense at all, like i can’t think of anyone who would be in both theory and practice further from libertarianism than Stalin.
Okay, so I gave this a listen, and honestly, at first it wasn’t as horrendously bad as I thought it would be. He started out by criticizing reformism, and saying that under capitalism, so-called “progressive” policies are ultimately passed with a view to strengthening the power of the monopolies (which latter have their existence by state fiat). Nothing too atrociously wrong there.
From here everything went south very fast. Haz did the thing he does very often: try to package communist ideas in right-wing language, to a degree that the original substance is basically lost. So we got: communists are the real libertarians, the Cultural Revolution is the real “drain the swamp,” heroes of labor are (I think) kind of like Braveheart, but better, and so on. Very, very weird.
I blame Zizek for this current fad of (1) saying stuff about Hegel, (2) quoting some some French post-structuralist for “shock value,” and (3), concluding with the statement that supporting the status quo is the only real revolutionary position
The closest i can get to understanding this is to assume whomever did this was a russian nationalist going for the line “strong russian leader” but unbelievably stupid, not knowing about how “strong” Bloody Nicky was or that Soviets and Russians were not exactly the same. He also did that as tatoo which support my theory of incredible dumbassery. Also paid huge money since this tatoo is actually made with pretty good skill.
“Libertarian Stalinism” have no sense at all, like i can’t think of anyone who would be in both theory and practice further from libertarianism than Stalin.
It has even less sense than this.
He also kinda-sorta defends Pol Pot.
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Wew
Okay, so I gave this a listen, and honestly, at first it wasn’t as horrendously bad as I thought it would be. He started out by criticizing reformism, and saying that under capitalism, so-called “progressive” policies are ultimately passed with a view to strengthening the power of the monopolies (which latter have their existence by state fiat). Nothing too atrociously wrong there.
From here everything went south very fast. Haz did the thing he does very often: try to package communist ideas in right-wing language, to a degree that the original substance is basically lost. So we got: communists are the real libertarians, the Cultural Revolution is the real “drain the swamp,” heroes of labor are (I think) kind of like Braveheart, but better, and so on. Very, very weird.
On old chapo i once proven that communism is the only existing liberal ideology, so you know XD
I would argue it’s the other way around haha
I blame Zizek for this current fad of (1) saying stuff about Hegel, (2) quoting some some French post-structuralist for “shock value,” and (3), concluding with the statement that supporting the status quo is the only real revolutionary position
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lmao what is even that
The closest i can get to understanding this is to assume whomever did this was a russian nationalist going for the line “strong russian leader” but unbelievably stupid, not knowing about how “strong” Bloody Nicky was or that Soviets and Russians were not exactly the same. He also did that as tatoo which support my theory of incredible dumbassery. Also paid huge money since this tatoo is actually made with pretty good skill.
It’s a huge tattoo in the first place. The bigger the more expensive. I’m thinking at least 2k$