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
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