When I worked in factories and kitchens I was desperate to get into a corporate office job. Now that I've been in one for three years I realize that it is but another trap and will do everything I can to get out from this nightmare. I want a world where I don't recreate my own oppression. I want a world where I get to "be" in the world and not a place
I want this world too!! Office jobs are terrible. Working office jobs with hybrid work schedules was somehow way more exhausting and stressful for me than working full-time in retail.
I feel you, but I am pretty sure this universe doesn't care about what I want at all. If I want to live I have to breathe. If I want to stay alive I have to constantly drink water. It seems that I evolved to the universe, the universe did not bend for me. I have to do the things I need to do whether I like it or not.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a desire to be "productive". The important qualifier is: whom are you producing for and towards what end? The desire to be productive is entangled with the desire to be in community and feel useful. Desires are hijacked and twisted by our economic culture to sustain the reproduction of our economic culture.
One of my favorite films is, "They Live," and it is a perfect example of what ideology is... Everyone is passively conditioned with language (check out Noam Chomsky's stuff on linguistics!), media, images, and well, the entire superstructure! "The application of philosophy is attacking how things are framed." I love your work, comrade! I'm thinking of making some content myself!
The whole capitalist system is organized to self-enforce. Hunger and poverty could be ended easily, but they are needed to enforce the conditioning, because if people do not have to fear becoming poor, then the conditioning will stop working. You would think, that not letting your workers work under stress would be in the interest of employers, because the employees would work better without stress, but the stress is needed to stop them from having a break to think and understand how they are mistreated. It's necessary to constantly invent new things that "one needs" and create peer pressure to endlessly consume, because if people would just decide they have enough and stop buying things, the system would collapse.
@@lefunnyN1 No, maybe it hasn't. (Although I dare say hunger has been pretty much ended in today's China as compared to the Mao Era). But that is not the point. The point is: socialism strives for equality, the idea is that everyone owns everything and nothing, on the contrary, capitalism thrives on inequality, it needs inequality to survive, the capitalists own everything and the proletariat own nothing. Therefore it is in the interest of the capitalists to perpetuate hunger and poverty. If one has nothing to lose, one has nothing to gain and the capitalist system is all about the desire to gain more wealth and power.
@@chrisstahl2653 i see you have a very unrealistic view of the world consider the following perpetuating hunger as a means of consolidating power of the political movement
2 fingers But I've spent years unlearning most of the other ones through therapy and self-compassion and education. I've always found it obnoxious about bootlickers that it never seems to even occur to them that we could change the system; as far as they're concerned it has always existed so they just want to be the ones on top.
Being Canadian, I live in a country with some successful left policies, namely, free healthcare and a pretty robust social aid system. For instance, I'm currently about to get my high school education which I missed due to covid for free along with some weekly funding and subsidized mental health care. I've spoken to a few Americans, mainly online friends, who genuinely seem to regard my country as some sort of socialist dystopia. I've been amazed to discover that many Americans genuinely and earnestly believe that it will be utterly impossible for me to seek care, and that if I have my leg severed, I'll be left to bleed out in the waiting room of the local hospital. That's a quote, by the way. Especially interesting are the things I've heard about MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). Some Americans I have spoken to are under the impression that Canada has erected death camps where the mildly ill are taken to be mass murdered to relieve our public healthcare system from their care and prevent the hemorrhaging of funds that such a system obviously suffers from. Also, almost a quote. Of course, these are pretty extreme examples... But I've heard both multiple times, from different people. I'm not trying to make some kind of point here, I just think this is hilarious. Maybe it's an example of American propaganda, or maybe I just talk to too many insane people.
Having heard some similarly crazy ideas firsthand I've come to believe it's a pride issue. Believing such crazy things lets them look down on you and feel the payoff of moral superiority, and people's feelings take priority over the truth.
consider much of the online left and left adjacent space is full of ops, and if not ops, but trolls who think they know "the truth" but that truth is one big lie perpetuated by said ops, and other capitalist shills... it's whole thing! tread carefully
Im in Australia and i can relate. Meanwhile Australians will literally talk amongst themselves about how they'd never want to live in America because "what if i get sick?" The US seems to have a culture that is individualistic to such a degree that people act like it's a virtue not tot care about each other at all in even the most basic ways. It seems present everywhere, Australia is capitalist too, and so this horrible way of looking at other peopel is also part of Australian culture, but it seems slightly more tempered by a more successful history of unionism and activism winning better living conditions than the US (for some people at least).
My favorite rhetorical trick against meritocracy is contrasting it with intergenerational wealth: one cannot consistently defend the two things. Either you think people should earn whatever it is through their effort and merit *or* you think people are entitled to property, wealth and opportunities by virtue of the circumstances in which they were born. I say trick because it is not an argument per se... there are much better arguments, but this one usually short-circuits people.
Do you think you should be able to pass on your possessions to your children? If not, why? The issue with intergenerational wealth is we are not isolated creatures, we must provide for the next generstikn. Until we stop that, intergenerational wealth isn't going anywhere.
It really does. I feel like it makes you feel better about yourself but worse about literally everything else outside of you because you recognize how conditioned everyone else is and how terrible the world is. Still worth it though, better to understand the systems causing yourself and everyone else pain than to feel like all your pain is your own fault!
Tbh my only real desire is to comfortably create things, like stories and little diy projects. I'm currently doing my best to do that each day. Before and after work.
Got one but it was the dragging myself to work when I felt sick or whatever but it was cause I don't have paid sick days and gotta pay rent and absolutely resenting it.
Oof that's rough!! Working when sick is the worst! I wish we lived in a world where people didn't have to choose between recovering from their illness or paying rent
@revolutionaryth0t it's even more fucked cause I'm a cook. People making food getting paid sick days is something I think would be overwhelmingly popular among anyone that doesn't own a restaurant. And unfortunately they're the smol bean business owners who get to suck up all liberal sympathy as if there's a difference between them and any other capitalist other than they did worse at the game they decided to play because their oversized ego got in the way. You wouldn't open a new restaurant, one of the riskiest ventures in the game if you were all about the money, there's always some narcissism attached cause a rational money driven resteraunteur would open a subway franchise or whatever. These creeps took the riskier road because of ego and feel they should be treated special because of it. Small business owners are business owners and it's harder to organize against someone who's around a the time.
Was almost the same for me, excetp that I was coming in because my boss would get upset and I didn't wanna provoke a write-up for something. Things changed a bit when I got a throat infection and had to get hauled off in the ambulance (Canadian, so it was cheap). Of course, that was probably because they insisted on hauling me out the front door on a stretcher in front of all the customers (which looks very bad in a fast-food place)
4 fingers. I recently changed jobs because my previous place expected me to continue to work to and through exhaustion after I collapsed and lost consciousness from exhaustion. I realized this place wasn’t worth my literal life, and got an offer 10 minutes before they suggested a PIP because I wasn’t working as hard as I had been before my body hit the hard reset button because I wasn’t listening when it told me things were going sideways. My numbers were the same, my customers loved me, but because I’m not the most socially engaged person and the bags under my eyes were starting to improve they decided I wasn’t giving enough blood sweat and tears, so I was threatened to continue injuring myself if I wanted to keep my job. So instead, I quit! I accepted the new gig that day, and I start soon. In the mean time I’m reconnecting with the things I lost the mental bandwidth to do, but which brought me joy, which is my art. I’m creating a coloring book and I’ve begun selling art again. The AI bros may be pillaging art right now, but that just means customers are valuing real art more.
After becoming disabled later in life and my partner becoming disabled and having no support we moved back in with parents and the guilt I felt on a daily basis and still feel eats me alive. I live in constant fear of not being able to make it on my own and how I’ll never be as stable as my parents. All I wanted was a simple life out in the country with my chickens and garden to keep me happy but even that seems out of reach at this point. I realize now that being disabled under capitalism you are seen as less than and less deserving you are quite literally forced into poverty. I really hope things change. I am still in the process of unlearning this guilt and shame.
Keep at it :) I've been grappling with something similar as I come to learn more about being autistic, so I want to wish you luck. Most of these stigmas and all the old Calvinist nonsense just spring from the material interests of that parasytical Capitalist class. Don't let those material interests implant themselves in your own head! :)
sometimes it comes down to how you interpret a question. i remember the „are other people less valuable than your family?“ question, to me my family is is more valuable but i know that other pople are valuable to others so in the big picture they are all valuable.
0 fingers down. i speedran the deconditioning process by being homeless and doing my research. it's hard to ignore the ugly truth when it's your life. unfortunately my fellow homeless people tend to still be conditioned, and that self loathing does them no favors in this lifestyle. i've decided i don't actually want to rent an apartment, own a home, or work for anyone else. i'm going to buy a van to live in, beg for my money or earn it through honest means, and check out of the capitalist system as much as i can. if they need people to be scared of becoming homeless for the system to work, then i won't be scared. in fact, i like being homeless, because participating in capitalism is an evil act to me.
Although I understand where you're coming from and I'm sorry about the circumstances you faced, there is no going around this global hegemonic system. The only way around is through. Capitalist ideology has made it such that even our conceptual means of dismantling it is escapist and individualistic. The proletariat, those most entrenched in capitalism to survive, is the most revolutionary force capable of dismantling it. Why? (Here's the optimistic part) Because workers allow it to run, not capitalists. Workers make the world run, so they are the only ones that are capable of seizing the means of production and building a socialist transformation. Joining a revolutionary socialist organization, breaking through the ideological barriers that keep us from talking and studying revolution and an alternative amongst our coworkers and communities, these are the steps we need to take to build a socialist world. It's hard work but its for the collective humanity. I hope you take these words as constructive criticism and don't rely on individual ways of getting by, when a new world requires the whole world. "Socialism is the people." - Fred Hampton
@@foogriffy read/watch videos on "socialism: utopian and scientific" by Engels. It goes over the early socialists who shared this idea of "checking out" of capitalism. Robert Owens was a US quaker and influenced Marx greatly with the community he designed, meant to be an example to capitalists of how much better an equitable alternative could be. This sounds like a ridiculous notion now, to demonstrate to these parasites an alternative to their interests and win their hearts and minds, but this same erroneous trend is still very common among leftists: attempts to estrange yourself from the system of complex and collective relations, building the ideal rather than transforming the material.
@otherboi125 homeless people are the best example I see of creating systems that work outside of what currently works. You are telling a homeless person they are not going to be as useful for revolution as someone who works. This seems conditioned in itself. Everybody is trying to get by individually, whether it be through means of begging, honest work, or work under a capitalist system. While not working, you have a lot more time to engage in revolutionary practices that can build community other than a Socialist organization. With less to lose, quote unquote, you are able to engage in riskier behaviors legally that can disrupt capital and truly enact change.dont knock others for surviving radicallizing and acting in a way different than fits your status quo
I like where this video is going (I'm less than halfway through), but man, it's too early in the morning to make my brain hurt, and I don't feel like being that productive. 😁 I will come back to it eventually though, and I'm liking and subscribing.
Wow. You delivered on this one. Great work. I agree that awareness of the conditioning is the precursor to unwashing the brain. Either way the conditioning is so ingrained that it's a lifelong process. But better is not the enemy of best. Be kind to yourself along the way and catch yourself doing something right.
I have undone the conditioning (besides escapism/impulsive spending as a cope, though the impulsive spending is usually just food), but I still exist in this system and suffer. I legitimately don’t know how long I can maintain this as it feels like a losing battle long term. I feel like I’m grinding myself down just to get by. I make more than minimum wage but debt is still piling up, I didn’t realize i live in one of the most expensive cities in the states. Cost of living is insane. My mindset is okay most days, but i shut down for about a week from exhaustion and I fear I’m doomed financially because of it. I don’t mind working but I’d like to be guaranteed a minimum quality of life at the least. Companies see record profits while I have to choose between food or bills, shits fucked.
doing the artist way, largely logging off, reading actual communist theory, and working with soil growing plants were all major parts of allowing the work of de-conditioning. now i understand that a great adventure time is needed to disrupt & destroy liberal capitalist imperial hegemony.
I got the dragging myself to work when sick one. I have chronic illnesses and serious sleep issues to add to the pie. Ive found myself having to go to work when sick or when feeling immensely crappy so many times because I have to pay the bills and also because Id otherwise lose my job. Another one that gets me upset often is havi g to forego things that are part of my being human just because I have to go to work. Such as not having the time to eat before having to leave because I couldnt sleep well enough through the nignt so I have to choose going to work over my human need to sleep more and my human need to eat. Or not being able to spend enough time in the bathroom, which would be good for me, because I have to go to work. Stuff like that. I constantly find myself having to choose work over the necessary human things that my body need and that would be good or healthy for me to do, and of course these human thinga are made unpredictable because of chronic illness.
Ugh work sucks, the way it makes us ignore our own bodily cues in order to literally be able to afford to live is so inhumane, and it's especially terrible when you're chronically ill and can't predict how your body will feel day-to-day. Hang in there!
4 fingers. Makes me realize how little respect I've given my body. I make great efforts not to judge others to my standards. Everyone deserves to rest, including me. It's okay to ask for help. Hopefully stating that will affirm to myself.
One point to add to the existence of critics in any mode of production is that contradictions are inherent to a mode of production. The class antagonism between labor and capital is also part of the economic base so aspects of that antagonism ofcs will also manifest in the superstructure like for example the trueism "all politicians are bought" that even right wingers accept. In a certain way while you can't say that socialism is inevitable you can very much say that the emergence of socialist thought in a capitalist system is.
This was great. My only note would be - during the "What can we do about it?" section, going beyond the personal stuff would be good. Heh. Like mentioning the ultimate goal of socialism, which can really only happen through revolution (we at least have to try). I'm sure you probably know that, given you quoted Lenin, but considering a lot of people may be newcomers, it's good to drive that point home. Studying Marxism (specifically [anti-revisionist] Marxism-Leninism) is also important to mention, for multiple reasons (to actually understand things and what needs to be done, to truly break through that conditioning, indoctrination, and similar things, etc.).
Thank you, and good point!! I guess I assumed that once you realize you're conditioned, the next step would naturally be to educate yourself about what's going on and what to do about it, and then actually do something about it like joining an org or something, but I will definitely mention those things more explicitly in future videos!
@@revolutionaryth0t Thanks very much for the nice reply! I wasn't sure on your stances, and from someone else, that reply could've been very different! Haha. [And sorry this is weeks later :x Heh.]
With the intro I feel like as people we're more pre-disposed to value friends and family over strangers, in the sense of they're the people we're close to as opposed to people we don't know. I might be reading into it too much or misunderstanding, please let me know if I'm just getting it wrong
It makes sense to value friends and family more than strangers and to want to spend time with people you actually know and like rather than people you don't know! What I was getting at with that point is that some people absolutely don't care what happens to people outside of their family or friend group and believe that people who aren't connected to them in someway aren't valuable or worth considering at all. Valuing those close to you isn't a problem, but devaluing everyone else is.
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15:33 no, not awareness, not just, or more accurately more than that. Instead, how about do what I did, embrace nihilism, just think about all of the things you're socio-cultural upbringing taught you, & take time to think about, & evaluate whether or not anything you've been taught actually benefits, or benifitted you in anyway, & wether or not it actually alligns with you're actual values, priorities & needs. Trust me, you'll start realizing how much of the stuff you've been taught, is total bollocks, & does nothing for you, & how it made you essentially a highly compliant & obedient NPC. Only then you'll start purging yourself of all ideology like an ideological detox, that doubles as an extreme immune system response, once you start to actually think for yourself, thinking critically & not believing what the status quo wants you to believe, you'll then gain the sense of freedom & contentment the status doesn't want you to have, because it'll make their system fall apart fast! I guess that's why there are usually so many right leaning people trying to scare you away from nihilism, because they don't want you to think for yourself, & free oneself mentally of all ideology & toxic belief systems! They want you to have no critical thinking skills so that you don't windup deliberately doing the opposite of what the status quo tells you to do.
It’s so cool to find a TH-cam channel that does this type of Marxist content!!! I was already impressed with the video partway through watching it, but then you mentioned Gramsci and I subscribed right away haha.
This is gonna be a great video to show Liberals and baby leftists. I know that some of the people I know would really appreciate this video which breaks down why they believe what they believe. Thanks for making videos!
Hello! Thank you for your inspiring and healing content! I'm a left feminist from Russia. I was born in 1997, my parents and grandparents were born and raised in the USSR. And I would like to ask you, is it only capitalism manipulate us and make us work harder despite our wishes, feelings or health condition? I'd heard a lot from my relatives that I should not be lazy, I should have a job and work hard to become a good person. Now I'm formally unemployed and my relatives are so worried about this. I consider that this mindset is a Soviet legacy. That state used its citizens to maintain its economy too. I know that the USSR wasn't a capitalist state but it wasn't a socialist either: citizens had almost no opportunities to influence government decisions, there were periods of totalitarianism. So, maybe not just capitalism instills us the idea of hard work (for potentially luxurious rich life in future, in its case) but other oppressive political systems as well?
I was born in the USSR near the end and my family emigrated to the USA after. Based on my experience with attitudes and stories from people around me, I would agree with what you suggest. It seems to me that any nation state, regardless of economic or social system, will use propaganda to manipulate the natural social desires of its citizens towards whatever ends those in power deem a priority. In the case of your anecdote and the topic of the video -- economic production. I do not believe this is inherently malicious but we live in an era of human history where we are all trapped in a social arrangement of competing nation states. Unfortunately it seems this way of organizing into nations always degenerates into a minority of elites twisting the mechanisms and power of the state into an apparatus that exists to reproduce, sustain and propagate their own power relative to the other nations like some unending zero-sum game.
Some people disagree with "the USSR wasn't a capitalist state", claiming it was indeed state capitalism, not regulated by market forces, but by the government. Surely there can be other forms of conditioning, and I do agree that Stalinism had that too, albeit in another form, with another objective. I think what is especially insidious at the moment is that the world is virtually all immersed in capitalism, making it sometimes difficult to identify those things in our lives. Let us not fall into the trap of thinking that the USSR represents the only possible alternative to capitalism. Stalin's m.o. was frontally opposed to what was and is defended by many other leftists, for example.
This is a great question! I was born in Russia in 1992 and moved to the US in 2000, and my parents also have this exact same mindset. I think a big part of it is that in the USSR, so much of one's identity was tied specifically to being a worker, which was very much rooted in the concept of the "average" worker (I talk about this "average worker" concept in my video called "You are not normal" although not as it pertains to the USSR) - able-bodied and with no cognitive disabilities/mental illnesses/etc. that would prevent them from working a standard 40 hour work week. You can see this mindset in Soviet slogans like "he who does not work, neither shall he eat." Also, in the USSR, everyone had a guaranteed job, and because of this, it was actually illegal to be unemployed for more than a few months. So a lot of the generations that lived in the USSR still maintain that mindset that "not working = lazy" because they grew up learning that working was mandatory, that not working was quite literally illegal, and that only malingerers who are okay with breaking the law would avoid working. I think the Soviet mindset of expecting everyone to be the "average worker" and having people tie their identity to work rather than to literally just who they are as a unique individual was definitely one of the biggest downsides of the USSR. Especially because it still negatively impacts people from the former USSR and their descendants negatively to this day!
What's the difference between communist-feminism and anarcho-feminism, to you? Also like, what do you think about anarcho-comminism and anarcho syndicalism, especially from a feminist perspective... I'm trying to be a better person and have better praxis that makes the world a better place for everyone, especially those most vulnerable and victimized in our society. I like your videos but most people don't have the ability to process the amount of information that people like you and I can and it's why I like Lunarpunk and anarchist praxis more cause it's more about creating dialogues and finding simpler ways of doing things so that people can keep up and survive instead of fizzling out. I was a communist for a tiny bit back in the day but I've seen all my old communist friends die or otherwise give up and become Amazon or similar wage slaves, bricks in the wall... Some of my anarchist friends have also died or become toxically masculine (which is why I'm anarcho feminist now) but I've noticed that anarchists tend to be better at not giving into the system... Idk sorry I'm really tired rn and about to fall asleep but anyway yeah i love your videos even if I'm trying to understand the perspective differences. 💜 ✌️
I don't place value on work because of money. It's a spiritual thing, I can't explain because I'm not religious, but we were MADE to "work." It's the only value anything has; it's the journey along the way. Good things mostly don't come easy because the universe would lack balance otherwise, like the dark side of the force without the light, or yin without yang, it just can't be because physics won't allow it.
A lot of people consider a difference between “labor” and “work”. We were meant to expend effort to survive and thrive, not to toil away enriching someone else for a pittance
I want money so I can buy a house were Iam not dependent on a Landlord who can kick me out. I want to be allowed to do renawations to my place an decide to install solarpanels on the roof and insulate against the summer heat and winter cold. ...
Thanks TH-cam for recommending me this channel, Now I can indulge in mindless (actually pretty mindful and intelligent) materialistic consumption of more marxist videos while avoiding the dreading feeling that it's 3:45 in the morning and I haven't slept and I will probably spend the next day in agony while melatonin and coffein fight a devastating battle for my neuroreceptors
Doesnt sound very mindful. youre occupying your time with educational things, which might seem beneficial, but it does not mean you are learning. If you are procrastinating satisfying your bodily needs, you can’t always just try to procrastinate better, you gotta learn to take care of yourself.
Would you like to talk about anarchism. So far the anarchist revolutions have been the only ones to work. The anarkist revolution did not have purges or man made famines. They had success.
She's a Marxist. She knows better. No tea, no shade. Read about Makhno and learn about what it takes for even unsuccessful anarchist revolutions to sustain themselves. (Hint: purges were necessary)
@@otherboi125 what about Rojava or the Zapatistas. These exist in the modern day and they have not sacrificed their goals or built dictatorships to survive. Also the reason for Makno's movement falling apart was the betrayal by the reds.
@@otherboi125 every time an Authoritarian communist takes power, the workers are not liberated, the world is not freed, and the people who live their lose all of their freedoms and rights. And maybe the excuse of your new country being embargoed and suppressed would have been more acceptable had the anarchist examples shown how full of shit this whole excuse is. Rojava fights with isis and turkey but they have sacrificed none of their liberatory goals. They show that even during war you can have freedom. They show you CAN have free speech in a revolutionary period, contrary to Lenin's words.
Demonizing capitalism is like blaming a mathematical formula for an undesired outcome. As a parent is a role-model for their child, setting a precedent of virtuous conduct is the best way to impact business conduct for the better. Whatever theoretical model you use, there will be people who abuse it...
Replace "capitalism" with "chattel slavery" and your underlying logic still holds. Demonization is not necessary to analyze and critique. Relying on trust and the honor system to undergird the stability of a system is the exact opposite of what mathematicians and scientists try to do when putting theory into practice. Anyway, a classic litany of cope -- not an original formulation but a good effort with some creativity. 7/10
When I hear the critique of modern, neoliberal, capitalist, Social Darwinist hyper individualism, I hold my breath and wait hoping to hear a solution that at its roots is socio-economically co-operative, subversively collaborative, as in economic democracy for social democracy, mutual aid in its original form of working together for a common share good, in contrast to now meaning crowdfunded hyper-individualism in socialist drag.😥
Sad true. But I realised that I probably be commie because I born in working class. But I'm pretty sure that if I born in a bourgeois family I will probably be capitalist. I guess I'm well conditioned.
When I worked in factories and kitchens I was desperate to get into a corporate office job.
Now that I've been in one for three years I realize that it is but another trap and will do everything I can to get out from this nightmare.
I want a world where I don't recreate my own oppression.
I want a world where I get to "be" in the world and not a place
I want this world too!!
Office jobs are terrible. Working office jobs with hybrid work schedules was somehow way more exhausting and stressful for me than working full-time in retail.
I feel you, but I am pretty sure this universe doesn't care about what I want at all.
If I want to live I have to breathe. If I want to stay alive I have to constantly drink water. It seems that I evolved to the universe, the universe did not bend for me.
I have to do the things I need to do whether I like it or not.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a desire to be "productive".
The important qualifier is: whom are you producing for and towards what end?
The desire to be productive is entangled with the desire to be in community and feel useful.
Desires are hijacked and twisted by our economic culture to sustain the reproduction of our economic culture.
One of my favorite films is, "They Live," and it is a perfect example of what ideology is... Everyone is passively conditioned with language (check out Noam Chomsky's stuff on linguistics!), media, images, and well, the entire superstructure!
"The application of philosophy is attacking how things are framed."
I love your work, comrade! I'm thinking of making some content myself!
I've felt like I've been wearing those glasses my whole life.
I've been meaning to watch that movie!
And yesss make your own content, we need more Marxist content creators!
The whole capitalist system is organized to self-enforce. Hunger and poverty could be ended easily, but they are needed to enforce the conditioning, because if people do not have to fear becoming poor, then the conditioning will stop working. You would think, that not letting your workers work under stress would be in the interest of employers, because the employees would work better without stress, but the stress is needed to stop them from having a break to think and understand how they are mistreated. It's necessary to constantly invent new things that "one needs" and create peer pressure to endlessly consume, because if people would just decide they have enough and stop buying things, the system would collapse.
Capitalism and free markets are the future.
have hunger been ended in soviet union or china under mao
@@lefunnyN1 No, maybe it hasn't. (Although I dare say hunger has been pretty much ended in today's China as compared to the Mao Era). But that is not the point.
The point is: socialism strives for equality, the idea is that everyone owns everything and nothing, on the contrary, capitalism thrives on inequality, it needs inequality to survive, the capitalists own everything and the proletariat own nothing.
Therefore it is in the interest of the capitalists to perpetuate hunger and poverty. If one has nothing to lose, one has nothing to gain and the capitalist system is all about the desire to gain more wealth and power.
@@chrisstahl2653 i see you have a very unrealistic view of the world
consider the following
perpetuating hunger as a means of consolidating power of the political movement
@@lefunnyN1 Then what would be realistic? 🙂
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But I've spent years unlearning most of the other ones through therapy and self-compassion and education.
I've always found it obnoxious about bootlickers that it never seems to even occur to them that we could change the system; as far as they're concerned it has always existed so they just want to be the ones on top.
each interaction we have not mediated through money is a small act of resistance
True, but that can be incredibly hard to do. It's something that needs to be worked out with others.
Being Canadian, I live in a country with some successful left policies, namely, free healthcare and a pretty robust social aid system. For instance, I'm currently about to get my high school education which I missed due to covid for free along with some weekly funding and subsidized mental health care.
I've spoken to a few Americans, mainly online friends, who genuinely seem to regard my country as some sort of socialist dystopia. I've been amazed to discover that many Americans genuinely and earnestly believe that it will be utterly impossible for me to seek care, and that if I have my leg severed, I'll be left to bleed out in the waiting room of the local hospital. That's a quote, by the way.
Especially interesting are the things I've heard about MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). Some Americans I have spoken to are under the impression that Canada has erected death camps where the mildly ill are taken to be mass murdered to relieve our public healthcare system from their care and prevent the hemorrhaging of funds that such a system obviously suffers from. Also, almost a quote.
Of course, these are pretty extreme examples... But I've heard both multiple times, from different people. I'm not trying to make some kind of point here, I just think this is hilarious. Maybe it's an example of American propaganda, or maybe I just talk to too many insane people.
Having heard some similarly crazy ideas firsthand I've come to believe it's a pride issue. Believing such crazy things lets them look down on you and feel the payoff of moral superiority, and people's feelings take priority over the truth.
consider much of the online left and left adjacent space is full of ops, and if not ops, but trolls who think they know "the truth" but that truth is one big lie perpetuated by said ops, and other capitalist shills... it's whole thing! tread carefully
America is as brainwashed and delusional as it claims North Korea is
Im in Australia and i can relate. Meanwhile Australians will literally talk amongst themselves about how they'd never want to live in America because "what if i get sick?" The US seems to have a culture that is individualistic to such a degree that people act like it's a virtue not tot care about each other at all in even the most basic ways. It seems present everywhere, Australia is capitalist too, and so this horrible way of looking at other peopel is also part of Australian culture, but it seems slightly more tempered by a more successful history of unionism and activism winning better living conditions than the US (for some people at least).
I’m an American and those people sound insane to me 😂
🥰🥰🥰You had me at the George Carlin clip... 🥰🥰🥰
They call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it -George Carlin
My favorite rhetorical trick against meritocracy is contrasting it with intergenerational wealth: one cannot consistently defend the two things. Either you think people should earn whatever it is through their effort and merit *or* you think people are entitled to property, wealth and opportunities by virtue of the circumstances in which they were born. I say trick because it is not an argument per se... there are much better arguments, but this one usually short-circuits people.
Do you think you should be able to pass on your possessions to your children? If not, why? The issue with intergenerational wealth is we are not isolated creatures, we must provide for the next generstikn. Until we stop that, intergenerational wealth isn't going anywhere.
@outsideofyourbox Fairy tale bs
@outsideofyourbox All bs based on nothing
Thank god, I am too neurodivergent for most of those 10 and I didn't grow up in culture as hypercapitalist some others.
Remember kids, being neurodivergent makes you immune to propaganda (not really, but it somehow tends to happen). And they say we are the weird ones.
Having been addressing the conditioning for years by now makes it pretty tough to operate in this sh!t
It really does. I feel like it makes you feel better about yourself but worse about literally everything else outside of you because you recognize how conditioned everyone else is and how terrible the world is. Still worth it though, better to understand the systems causing yourself and everyone else pain than to feel like all your pain is your own fault!
Always excited to see you upload
Thank you!! :)
you tube needs more of this content.
Thank you!
Tbh my only real desire is to comfortably create things, like stories and little diy projects. I'm currently doing my best to do that each day. Before and after work.
That's awesome!!
Got one but it was the dragging myself to work when I felt sick or whatever but it was cause I don't have paid sick days and gotta pay rent and absolutely resenting it.
Oof that's rough!! Working when sick is the worst! I wish we lived in a world where people didn't have to choose between recovering from their illness or paying rent
Okay, you got to it later
@revolutionaryth0t it's even more fucked cause I'm a cook. People making food getting paid sick days is something I think would be overwhelmingly popular among anyone that doesn't own a restaurant. And unfortunately they're the smol bean business owners who get to suck up all liberal sympathy as if there's a difference between them and any other capitalist other than they did worse at the game they decided to play because their oversized ego got in the way. You wouldn't open a new restaurant, one of the riskiest ventures in the game if you were all about the money, there's always some narcissism attached cause a rational money driven resteraunteur would open a subway franchise or whatever. These creeps took the riskier road because of ego and feel they should be treated special because of it. Small business owners are business owners and it's harder to organize against someone who's around a the time.
Was almost the same for me, excetp that I was coming in because my boss would get upset and I didn't wanna provoke a write-up for something.
Things changed a bit when I got a throat infection and had to get hauled off in the ambulance (Canadian, so it was cheap). Of course, that was probably because they insisted on hauling me out the front door on a stretcher in front of all the customers (which looks very bad in a fast-food place)
My goals: be loved, be in a just and fair society, be fulfilled in by endeavors, and help for everyone to be able to have these things.
4 fingers. I recently changed jobs because my previous place expected me to continue to work to and through exhaustion after I collapsed and lost consciousness from exhaustion. I realized this place wasn’t worth my literal life, and got an offer 10 minutes before they suggested a PIP because I wasn’t working as hard as I had been before my body hit the hard reset button because I wasn’t listening when it told me things were going sideways. My numbers were the same, my customers loved me, but because I’m not the most socially engaged person and the bags under my eyes were starting to improve they decided I wasn’t giving enough blood sweat and tears, so I was threatened to continue injuring myself if I wanted to keep my job. So instead, I quit! I accepted the new gig that day, and I start soon.
In the mean time I’m reconnecting with the things I lost the mental bandwidth to do, but which brought me joy, which is my art. I’m creating a coloring book and I’ve begun selling art again. The AI bros may be pillaging art right now, but that just means customers are valuing real art more.
After becoming disabled later in life and my partner becoming disabled and having no support we moved back in with parents and the guilt I felt on a daily basis and still feel eats me alive. I live in constant fear of not being able to make it on my own and how I’ll never be as stable as my parents. All I wanted was a simple life out in the country with my chickens and garden to keep me happy but even that seems out of reach at this point. I realize now that being disabled under capitalism you are seen as less than and less deserving you are quite literally forced into poverty. I really hope things change. I am still in the process of unlearning this guilt and shame.
Keep at it :)
I've been grappling with something similar as I come to learn more about being autistic, so I want to wish you luck. Most of these stigmas and all the old Calvinist nonsense just spring from the material interests of that parasytical Capitalist class. Don't let those material interests implant themselves in your own head! :)
Thank you so much for this video. The past few days/nights have been very... enlightening for me, and this video helped me a lot
I'm glad it helped!!
I put down 5 fingers 😬
Oof, but at least now you know some ways in which you've been conditioned by capitalism
sometimes it comes down to how you interpret a question. i remember the „are other people less valuable than your family?“ question, to me my family is is more valuable but i know that other pople are valuable to others so in the big picture they are all valuable.
I hope you never lose your hope that educating others will help tomorrow be a better place. Thank you for your time and effort.
Thank you!!
I'm 60. I've been slowly deconditioning myself for decades.
I dont think my family literally has more value than anyone elses but I'd do alot more for them than most people
You need 1 million subs, and URGENTLY
Thank you!! Hopefully someday!!
This is so clear and concise, will be sharing!
Thank you!!
Just found this channel. Brilliant and clear info. Sharing all around.
0 fingers down. i speedran the deconditioning process by being homeless and doing my research. it's hard to ignore the ugly truth when it's your life.
unfortunately my fellow homeless people tend to still be conditioned, and that self loathing does them no favors in this lifestyle. i've decided i don't actually want to rent an apartment, own a home, or work for anyone else. i'm going to buy a van to live in, beg for my money or earn it through honest means, and check out of the capitalist system as much as i can.
if they need people to be scared of becoming homeless for the system to work, then i won't be scared. in fact, i like being homeless, because participating in capitalism is an evil act to me.
Although I understand where you're coming from and I'm sorry about the circumstances you faced, there is no going around this global hegemonic system. The only way around is through. Capitalist ideology has made it such that even our conceptual means of dismantling it is escapist and individualistic. The proletariat, those most entrenched in capitalism to survive, is the most revolutionary force capable of dismantling it. Why? (Here's the optimistic part) Because workers allow it to run, not capitalists. Workers make the world run, so they are the only ones that are capable of seizing the means of production and building a socialist transformation. Joining a revolutionary socialist organization, breaking through the ideological barriers that keep us from talking and studying revolution and an alternative amongst our coworkers and communities, these are the steps we need to take to build a socialist world. It's hard work but its for the collective humanity. I hope you take these words as constructive criticism and don't rely on individual ways of getting by, when a new world requires the whole world. "Socialism is the people." - Fred Hampton
@@otherboi125 uhh not sure what i said that wasnt plenty socialist already but okay
@@foogriffy read/watch videos on "socialism: utopian and scientific" by Engels. It goes over the early socialists who shared this idea of "checking out" of capitalism. Robert Owens was a US quaker and influenced Marx greatly with the community he designed, meant to be an example to capitalists of how much better an equitable alternative could be. This sounds like a ridiculous notion now, to demonstrate to these parasites an alternative to their interests and win their hearts and minds, but this same erroneous trend is still very common among leftists: attempts to estrange yourself from the system of complex and collective relations, building the ideal rather than transforming the material.
@otherboi125 homeless people are the best example I see of creating systems that work outside of what currently works. You are telling a homeless person they are not going to be as useful for revolution as someone who works. This seems conditioned in itself. Everybody is trying to get by individually, whether it be through means of begging, honest work, or work under a capitalist system. While not working, you have a lot more time to engage in revolutionary practices that can build community other than a Socialist organization. With less to lose, quote unquote, you are able to engage in riskier behaviors legally that can disrupt capital and truly enact change.dont knock others for surviving radicallizing and acting in a way different than fits your status quo
Thank you so much for the video. Your words give me hope that a better world is possible in the future!
put fingers down except for the last two.
thanks for this!
I got all the internal fingers, none of the external ones. I guess that means I just hate myself personally.
I like where this video is going (I'm less than halfway through), but man, it's too early in the morning to make my brain hurt, and I don't feel like being that productive. 😁 I will come back to it eventually though, and I'm liking and subscribing.
Wow. You delivered on this one. Great work. I agree that awareness of the conditioning is the precursor to unwashing the brain. Either way the conditioning is so ingrained that it's a lifelong process. But better is not the enemy of best. Be kind to yourself along the way and catch yourself doing something right.
Thank you so much!! Well said! We have to be kind to ourselves as we undo basically a lifetime of conditioning.
Amazing content ❤
There was a TED talk where the speakers point was "Boomers are lame, right zoomers? So let's get rid of social security." 😇
Thank you for making this video, it was helpful for understanding socialism and has empowered me in my own beliefs.
I'm glad it was helpful!!
I love Carlin's Owners bit. So damned true then and just look.
6 fingers, I have some work to do. Thank you for a fantastic video.
Thank you!!
Sending this to everyone. Well done keeping a 101 short but still informative 👏 another banger
Thank you!
nothing deep to add, just commenting for the algorithm and to say this video rocks and you're doing great work
I have undone the conditioning (besides escapism/impulsive spending as a cope, though the impulsive spending is usually just food), but I still exist in this system and suffer. I legitimately don’t know how long I can maintain this as it feels like a losing battle long term. I feel like I’m grinding myself down just to get by.
I make more than minimum wage but debt is still piling up, I didn’t realize i live in one of the most expensive cities in the states. Cost of living is insane. My mindset is okay most days, but i shut down for about a week from exhaustion and I fear I’m doomed financially because of it. I don’t mind working but I’d like to be guaranteed a minimum quality of life at the least. Companies see record profits while I have to choose between food or bills, shits fucked.
Great video!
Havent we all? It takes a revolutionary knowledge to break that conditioning
doing the artist way, largely logging off, reading actual communist theory, and working with soil growing plants were all major parts of allowing the work of de-conditioning.
now i understand that a great adventure time is needed to disrupt & destroy liberal capitalist imperial hegemony.
her didactics are so good damn
I got the dragging myself to work when sick one.
I have chronic illnesses and serious sleep issues to add to the pie. Ive found myself having to go to work when sick or when feeling immensely crappy so many times because I have to pay the bills and also because Id otherwise lose my job.
Another one that gets me upset often is havi g to forego things that are part of my being human just because I have to go to work. Such as not having the time to eat before having to leave because I couldnt sleep well enough through the nignt so I have to choose going to work over my human need to sleep more and my human need to eat.
Or not being able to spend enough time in the bathroom, which would be good for me, because I have to go to work.
Stuff like that. I constantly find myself having to choose work over the necessary human things that my body need and that would be good or healthy for me to do, and of course these human thinga are made unpredictable because of chronic illness.
Ugh work sucks, the way it makes us ignore our own bodily cues in order to literally be able to afford to live is so inhumane, and it's especially terrible when you're chronically ill and can't predict how your body will feel day-to-day. Hang in there!
Great work 👍
Thank you!
4 fingers. Makes me realize how little respect I've given my body. I make great efforts not to judge others to my standards. Everyone deserves to rest, including me. It's okay to ask for help. Hopefully stating that will affirm to myself.
All of this!!!
Documented notes in the description would be handy to back over the major details over time without having to rewatch the videos
another banger video, love the video setup
The answer for most should be yes. Capitalist ideology and oppression over one's life and mind runs deep. Also your makeup is fire.
Thank you!! Yeah I'd be surprised if someone lived under capitalism and didn't experience capitalist conditioning in any capacity
One point to add to the existence of critics in any mode of production is that contradictions are inherent to a mode of production. The class antagonism between labor and capital is also part of the economic base so aspects of that antagonism ofcs will also manifest in the superstructure like for example the trueism "all politicians are bought" that even right wingers accept. In a certain way while you can't say that socialism is inevitable you can very much say that the emergence of socialist thought in a capitalist system is.
This was great. My only note would be - during the "What can we do about it?" section, going beyond the personal stuff would be good. Heh. Like mentioning the ultimate goal of socialism, which can really only happen through revolution (we at least have to try). I'm sure you probably know that, given you quoted Lenin, but considering a lot of people may be newcomers, it's good to drive that point home. Studying Marxism (specifically [anti-revisionist] Marxism-Leninism) is also important to mention, for multiple reasons (to actually understand things and what needs to be done, to truly break through that conditioning, indoctrination, and similar things, etc.).
Thank you, and good point!! I guess I assumed that once you realize you're conditioned, the next step would naturally be to educate yourself about what's going on and what to do about it, and then actually do something about it like joining an org or something, but I will definitely mention those things more explicitly in future videos!
@@revolutionaryth0t Thanks very much for the nice reply! I wasn't sure on your stances, and from someone else, that reply could've been very different! Haha. [And sorry this is weeks later :x Heh.]
Wow all my fingers went down 😢😅
A soft answer turns away wrath.
With the intro I feel like as people we're more pre-disposed to value friends and family over strangers, in the sense of they're the people we're close to as opposed to people we don't know. I might be reading into it too much or misunderstanding, please let me know if I'm just getting it wrong
It makes sense to value friends and family more than strangers and to want to spend time with people you actually know and like rather than people you don't know! What I was getting at with that point is that some people absolutely don't care what happens to people outside of their family or friend group and believe that people who aren't connected to them in someway aren't valuable or worth considering at all. Valuing those close to you isn't a problem, but devaluing everyone else is.
@@revolutionaryth0t Ah, gotcha! I'm on the spectrum so sometimes it's a little difficult to read the meaning of things properly
Well said, comrade. We need to stop asking for rights. We'll never get them by asking.
Exactly 😼
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Большое спасибо! 🫶
Nice. Good stuff
Good lord, what an intro! love it!
Thank you!!
15:33 no, not awareness, not just, or more accurately more than that.
Instead, how about do what I did, embrace nihilism, just think about all of the things you're socio-cultural upbringing taught you, & take time to think about, & evaluate whether or not anything you've been taught actually benefits, or benifitted you in anyway, & wether or not it actually alligns with you're actual values, priorities & needs.
Trust me, you'll start realizing how much of the stuff you've been taught, is total bollocks, & does nothing for you, & how it made you essentially a highly compliant & obedient NPC. Only then you'll start purging yourself of all ideology like an ideological detox, that doubles as an extreme immune system response, once you start to actually think for yourself, thinking critically & not believing what the status quo wants you to believe, you'll then gain the sense of freedom & contentment the status doesn't want you to have, because it'll make their system fall apart fast!
I guess that's why there are usually so many right leaning people trying to scare you away from nihilism, because they don't want you to think for yourself, & free oneself mentally of all ideology & toxic belief systems! They want you to have no critical thinking skills so that you don't windup deliberately doing the opposite of what the status quo tells you to do.
"Purging yourself of all ideology" while simultaneously explaining your own ideology
Subed and will be back to view your other videos. Good job. 🤗😎
Thank you!
education and journalism are also great for maintaining cultural hegemony.
(by the way do you know the channel ThinkThatThrough?)
Yes they are! And no I haven't heard of that channel before, will have to check it out
It’s so cool to find a TH-cam channel that does this type of Marxist content!!! I was already impressed with the video partway through watching it, but then you mentioned Gramsci and I subscribed right away haha.
Yay thank you!
2 Trillion?
Thats like... 9 Zeros? :o
Just 2 fingers down (i thought it would be more) btw great video
Thank you!
This is gonna be a great video to show Liberals and baby leftists. I know that some of the people I know would really appreciate this video which breaks down why they believe what they believe. Thanks for making videos!
Hello! Thank you for your inspiring and healing content! I'm a left feminist from Russia. I was born in 1997, my parents and grandparents were born and raised in the USSR. And I would like to ask you, is it only capitalism manipulate us and make us work harder despite our wishes, feelings or health condition? I'd heard a lot from my relatives that I should not be lazy, I should have a job and work hard to become a good person. Now I'm formally unemployed and my relatives are so worried about this. I consider that this mindset is a Soviet legacy. That state used its citizens to maintain its economy too. I know that the USSR wasn't a capitalist state but it wasn't a socialist either: citizens had almost no opportunities to influence government decisions, there were periods of totalitarianism.
So, maybe not just capitalism instills us the idea of hard work (for potentially luxurious rich life in future, in its case) but other oppressive political systems as well?
I was born in the USSR near the end and my family emigrated to the USA after. Based on my experience with attitudes and stories from people around me, I would agree with what you suggest. It seems to me that any nation state, regardless of economic or social system, will use propaganda to manipulate the natural social desires of its citizens towards whatever ends those in power deem a priority. In the case of your anecdote and the topic of the video -- economic production. I do not believe this is inherently malicious but we live in an era of human history where we are all trapped in a social arrangement of competing nation states. Unfortunately it seems this way of organizing into nations always degenerates into a minority of elites twisting the mechanisms and power of the state into an apparatus that exists to reproduce, sustain and propagate their own power relative to the other nations like some unending zero-sum game.
Some people disagree with "the USSR wasn't a capitalist state", claiming it was indeed state capitalism, not regulated by market forces, but by the government.
Surely there can be other forms of conditioning, and I do agree that Stalinism had that too, albeit in another form, with another objective. I think what is especially insidious at the moment is that the world is virtually all immersed in capitalism, making it sometimes difficult to identify those things in our lives.
Let us not fall into the trap of thinking that the USSR represents the only possible alternative to capitalism. Stalin's m.o. was frontally opposed to what was and is defended by many other leftists, for example.
This is a great question! I was born in Russia in 1992 and moved to the US in 2000, and my parents also have this exact same mindset. I think a big part of it is that in the USSR, so much of one's identity was tied specifically to being a worker, which was very much rooted in the concept of the "average" worker (I talk about this "average worker" concept in my video called "You are not normal" although not as it pertains to the USSR) - able-bodied and with no cognitive disabilities/mental illnesses/etc. that would prevent them from working a standard 40 hour work week. You can see this mindset in Soviet slogans like "he who does not work, neither shall he eat."
Also, in the USSR, everyone had a guaranteed job, and because of this, it was actually illegal to be unemployed for more than a few months. So a lot of the generations that lived in the USSR still maintain that mindset that "not working = lazy" because they grew up learning that working was mandatory, that not working was quite literally illegal, and that only malingerers who are okay with breaking the law would avoid working.
I think the Soviet mindset of expecting everyone to be the "average worker" and having people tie their identity to work rather than to literally just who they are as a unique individual was definitely one of the biggest downsides of the USSR. Especially because it still negatively impacts people from the former USSR and their descendants negatively to this day!
pretty funny and smart you’re one of a kind fr
Thank you!! :)
YOURE RADICALIZING ME :DDDDDD
Yay!!!
absolutely spitting fax
People to the right on the thumbnail are like "count your days".
I ran out of fingers, like. Halfway through. _Not_ doin alright sis; I have no idea what next week's work is gonna be.
I didn't put down any fingers, and yet, my relation to the means of production remains the same 😶
Subscribed!
We're not "conditioned", we've been blackmailed.
break free from believing that the scarcity model is in any way natural
What's the difference between communist-feminism and anarcho-feminism, to you?
Also like, what do you think about anarcho-comminism and anarcho syndicalism, especially from a feminist perspective...
I'm trying to be a better person and have better praxis that makes the world a better place for everyone, especially those most vulnerable and victimized in our society.
I like your videos but most people don't have the ability to process the amount of information that people like you and I can and it's why I like Lunarpunk and anarchist praxis more cause it's more about creating dialogues and finding simpler ways of doing things so that people can keep up and survive instead of fizzling out. I was a communist for a tiny bit back in the day but I've seen all my old communist friends die or otherwise give up and become Amazon or similar wage slaves, bricks in the wall... Some of my anarchist friends have also died or become toxically masculine (which is why I'm anarcho feminist now) but I've noticed that anarchists tend to be better at not giving into the system...
Idk sorry I'm really tired rn and about to fall asleep but anyway yeah i love your videos even if I'm trying to understand the perspective differences. 💜 ✌️
I don't place value on work because of money. It's a spiritual thing, I can't explain because I'm not religious, but we were MADE to "work." It's the only value anything has; it's the journey along the way. Good things mostly don't come easy because the universe would lack balance otherwise, like the dark side of the force without the light, or yin without yang, it just can't be because physics won't allow it.
A lot of people consider a difference between “labor” and “work”. We were meant to expend effort to survive and thrive, not to toil away enriching someone else for a pittance
I want money so I can buy a house were Iam not dependent on a Landlord who can kick me out. I want to be allowed to do renawations to my place an decide to install solarpanels on the roof and insulate against the summer heat and winter cold. ...
Like the way you used the term "conditioning," not "brainwashing," even though its "brainwashing."
Schools are places of indoctrination not education.
Thanks TH-cam for recommending me this channel, Now I can indulge in mindless (actually pretty mindful and intelligent) materialistic consumption of more marxist videos while avoiding the dreading feeling that it's 3:45 in the morning and I haven't slept and I will probably spend the next day in agony while melatonin and coffein fight a devastating battle for my neuroreceptors
Doesnt sound very mindful. youre occupying your time with educational things, which might seem beneficial, but it does not mean you are learning. If you are procrastinating satisfying your bodily needs, you can’t always just try to procrastinate better, you gotta learn to take care of yourself.
@@PokeNebula No I meant the content I was watching is mindful and intelligent, not me watching it at 3:45 in the morning
I wanna send this to my wife so bad but she literally only speaks Russian
I only had 4 fingers left
Would you like to talk about anarchism. So far the anarchist revolutions have been the only ones to work. The anarkist revolution did not have purges or man made famines. They had success.
She's a Marxist. She knows better. No tea, no shade. Read about Makhno and learn about what it takes for even unsuccessful anarchist revolutions to sustain themselves. (Hint: purges were necessary)
@@otherboi125 what about Rojava or the Zapatistas. These exist in the modern day and they have not sacrificed their goals or built dictatorships to survive. Also the reason for Makno's movement falling apart was the betrayal by the reds.
@@otherboi125 every time an Authoritarian communist takes power, the workers are not liberated, the world is not freed, and the people who live their lose all of their freedoms and rights. And maybe the excuse of your new country being embargoed and suppressed would have been more acceptable had the anarchist examples shown how full of shit this whole excuse is. Rojava fights with isis and turkey but they have sacrificed none of their liberatory goals. They show that even during war you can have freedom. They show you CAN have free speech in a revolutionary period, contrary to Lenin's words.
@@stevenorrington473 I agree... state control does not extinguish classes
Both of those require a centralized state too weak to destroy them. They're also really small.
one minute into the video, and Im running out of fingers. its toe time.
started the video and a minute thirty in i had no fingers down 😈🦍🐺💪😁
AHHHHH!!! I see the eyes
I think you're a super awesome science communicator. At least for me; all of the information is digesting really well :)
true
Thank you!! :)
I’m reading Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton. His chapters dealing with the base and superstructure are fascinating.
No fingers down, not really any news here, just engaging for the algo boost.
I put 3 fingers down
Demonizing capitalism is like blaming a mathematical formula for an undesired outcome. As a parent is a role-model for their child, setting a precedent of virtuous conduct is the best way to impact business conduct for the better. Whatever theoretical model you use, there will be people who abuse it...
Replace "capitalism" with "chattel slavery" and your underlying logic still holds. Demonization is not necessary to analyze and critique. Relying on trust and the honor system to undergird the stability of a system is the exact opposite of what mathematicians and scientists try to do when putting theory into practice.
Anyway, a classic litany of cope -- not an original formulation but a good effort with some creativity. 7/10
Soooo... I'm in the big club as a disabled guy. When will there be enough anti-capitalist women out there for me to get a relationship?
Okay, so I'm gonna give the video a chance because your username made me laugh.
I put down 8 fingers 😭
When I hear the critique of modern, neoliberal, capitalist, Social Darwinist hyper individualism, I hold my breath and wait hoping to hear a solution that at its roots is socio-economically co-operative, subversively collaborative, as in economic democracy for social democracy, mutual aid in its original form of working together for a common share good, in contrast to now meaning crowdfunded hyper-individualism in socialist drag.😥
Sad true. But I realised that I probably be commie because I born in working class. But I'm pretty sure that if I born in a bourgeois family I will probably be capitalist. I guess I'm well conditioned.
8 fingers down outch
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Walt Disney pumped out the propaganda.
9:53 The memes...