Now that’s literally not what he is saying. This guy isn’t a lib breatuber and this video is not about owning tankies it’s about educating the right.
We all know that the state should wither away and that it’s a desirable outcome, therefore we’re not “statists” although we are not literally “anti-state” like anarchists are. Out position is critical of the state without being dogmatic about it.
Now I concede that this YouTuber doesn’t look like he is a big time Stalin fan, and probably has this image of him being the paranoid paramount leader. But he actually engaged with his texts and quotes his writings, and doesn’t rely on any cold war propaganda myth and doesn’t actually attack his legacy.
Most importantly, when the question comes to why did the Soviet Union had to setup a bureaucracy, he analyses this through material conditions and shows that the failure of revolutions in the powerful nations imposed a dilemma between two theorically risky options .
He lets the viewer draw its own conclusions about whether socialism in one country was better than military adventurism, which in my opinion is a pretty obvious one but the choice to educate rather than influence should be respected.
I saw this video a long time ago and it clearly contributed to making me ML because the conclusion I drawn is that socialism in one country was the best option in the face of international failure despite local success, and that the bureaucracy is a factor that explains why there were so many purges and why it was possible for Krushchev to do his military coup
Thoughts on these response videos from FinBol? They’re what gave me the idea to make this post.
I’m in the process of watching it right now and it’s clearly a well-read essay. I’m a bit confused by the lack of actual disagreements between them though, sometimes FinBol makes points that are repeated in the actual CCK part they quote
However FinBol’s video includes something that was omitted in CCK’s video being the international dimension of class struggle. In that way we can clearly see that CCK has a Eurocentric tendency
I’ll keep listening
Edit : I got to the core of the video and I better see what you mean, it is obvious that the reading of CCK is influenced by western biais and anarchist deformation. His video is nuanced and not stupid as your average liberal breadtube, but we can see a tendency to cherrypick aspects to defend a libertarian interpretation of the texts.
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