• Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    15 hours ago

    You are late to the party, I’m afraid. TIK is a joke of a source and all that he proves is that you can make any nonsense sound respectable as long as you state it as elegantly as possible. It is the same trick that Eugene McCarthy used a decade ago to defend his preposterous idea that humans are the hybrids of pigs and chimpanzees.

    He quotes selectively from Capital, yet he repeats the same tired assertion that Herr Marx believed that labour can automatically make anything valuable… a misconception already addressed and dismissed in Capital’s first chapter. That cannot be chalked up to an innocent misunderstanding; that is evidence that TIK is a liar.

    But if I have yet to convince anybody that TIK is a waste of time, here is a decision that you can make in your everyday life:

    1. You can subscribe to /c/capitalismindecay, get daily anecdotes on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to fascism, rarely spend more than a couple dozen minutes on them (unless, on occasion, you need to immediately check out the sources), and it will always cost you a grand total of $0.00, tops.

    2. You can subscribe to TIKHistory, get sporadic uploads of tedious videos where a willfully dishonest author—so utterly lacking in circumspection that he thinks that almost everything is socialism—mostly spends his time denying that Fascism was capitalist according to his idealist redefinition, and it will cost you $1–10 a month if you join his Patreon page.

    This looks like a pretty easy decision to me.