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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2019
- A summary of my political journey so far in the best way I could explain it so far. Its been 6 years in the making, whew.
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Some people have thought at the end that I'm calling for Left Unity, this isn't the point I was trying to get across. The point is to take politics seriously, BRG at the end talks about how more privileged people flip between ideologies, Why? Because we can. We don't have the monkey breathing down our neck, so we can treat politics more like a game where we can sit back and idealise great socialist societies, instead of something that will result in a violent bitter revolution in which thousands will die, in which an aftermath where people will not get all the boons of socialism delivered to them immediately, where people will continue to want to destroy our society by any means necessary.
As I say I've grown cynical as time's gone on, somehow I just can't imagine a revolution happening in Britain or America until numerous other countries have achieved it, I just get the feeling that as a society as of present, we're just not serious enough about how this is all gonna go down.
This man went from being an immature Ancap to a full blown communist! Capitalists hate him see how he did it in just 7 minutes.
Yeah! Suck it ancaps!
oh my God, that's an awesome title
I can totally can relate to this journey albeit the American version of it. I got pulled into politics by an ancap who turned out to be a Nazi. XD
@Ryan McCreedy My political journey went from lib to ancap to typical anti sjw listening to carlgon of akkad blabber on and "ethics in games journalism," to radical centrist, and finally to a full blown commie which was accelerated by the 2016 election, so maybe 2020 is gonna radicalize you.
Ryan McCreedy Where there’s a will there’s a way... There’s no such thing as “anti-capitalist centrism,” so I f you get to a point where you can unequivocally reject this particular dogma, then you’ve already won half the battle lol
Stuff like this is why I don't respect Twitter-style purity politics. No one is born magically woke.
Fanatism is the problem...
You're welcome to think like this but no one changes their mind with you just agreeing with them about shit. Most of the opposition to "purity politics" is simply those people who want to continue being wrong.
@@XxLeCaptainxX I think purity politics come from people being frustrated with the choices that we have. Frustrated with being told how great the predominate system is after stepping over our fellow humans every day just to get the crumb they were struggling to hold on to. I think what the majority of us really want is a few people we know have our backs but then we circle back to purity. Fool me once shame on you.
Preach
Sorry sweetie, you're canceled.
'Christ where were you Shaun'
me after I stopped being a smooth brain classic liberal
@TF MS S M O O T H B R A I N D E T E C T E D
@TF MS seek help holy shit lmao
@TF MS weird place to troll this opinion
Hmm, nope, that Rand guy on the Killstream still has the smoothest brain. Sorry tf ms fam, you gotta do better than that
@TF MS Hog out or log out
I always thought one of the biggest lies we're sold is the notion that you're a leftist when you're young and then you grow out of it. We were almost all selfish pricks as teens and that's excellent training ground for fascism (and capitalism I guess in the rares cases where you do get to the top of society).
So true 😢
@@RedNeckRed647 Fascism is just decaing Capitalism, by being the necessary step for resolving problem of the decreasing rate of profit, by taking all civil liberties gained(well the civil liberties that were previously gained in Western Europe, because the rest of the world pretty much never won them outside of socialism), and builiding a cervailance state with the aid of the brainwashig from the media and education (that's pretty much what happend with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and even more with Spain and Portugal, I know this since I am half-german/half-portuguese myself), so that you could cease public spending on education/healthcare and be able to break unions and strikes more effectively.
I mean, Portugal is for me the greatest example, since even with its massive colonies (massive in comparison with its territorial size that is), it had the worst standard of living in Europe, safe for perhaps Albania
Just for you having an idea, in 1974, which was the year when our dictorship ended, we had the biggest illetarcy rate in Europe, and the majortiy of the population had still just the 3rd or 4th grade finished.
@@rafaelmelo2576 Nice to hear from an informed person on youtube for once. 100% agree with you.
IT´S NOT A LIE!! ALL THESE BRAINWASHED COMMIES WILL EVENTUALLY WAKE UP!!
...but you're more of a selfish prick now than you ever were. See, for those like yourself... it's not really about politics at all... it's just about being a selfish prick. When you were young you weren't fully aware of just how much of a selfish prick you could be and, as you've gotten older, you've learned of newer and newer ways to express your inner fuckhead so to speak. This isn't even your final form.
Now we need a "Normie to Furry" video
The Furry Dialectic.
Libertarian > Ancap > Socialist > OwO /
Would be something for me
@@LimeyLassen ah, yes. the libertarian to furry pipeline.
Yes
Another couple of years and he'll be a Posadist.
Our future is in the stars and with the dolphins.
At this rate of climate change, we'll all become the Posadas...
I became a posadist almost immediately when I realised I cared more about memes than I do about reading long books full of theory.
@@ciarancassidy7566 Bruh
@@samueloak1600 What the armchair intellectuals fail to realise is the great revolutionary potential of retards who get all their vague leftist inclinations from memes -Rosa Luxemburg.
ive actually been a perfect communist since birth so i cant relate, sorry
Lol
Troy Jensen when I was 4 I did a share and from there it was all red
Well that's kinda true for me lol both of my parents are communists so they've explained to me since I was a little kid why the current system is wrong. So I was the kind of child who complained about how unfair capitalism is at the age of like nine or ten xD
Same but that's because I found a small youtuber who recommended me...Jason unruhe?
I was actually always a communist since birth, I remember being a communist at 5 lol
This is a pretty wild journey. Mine was just socdem "every other country has free healthcare and college why can't we" for twenty years until I saw "Judas and the Black Messiah" on an airplane and started reading Marx.
sounds pretty cool
Great movie. It made me wanna read Mao lol
haven't watched this video yet but your capitalism death toll video is part of what radicalized me
Oh, it is my another favorite breadtuber.
Your video's are great mate
Holy shit it's Cora
Cock and Ball Torture gang!
@Rodrigo Mendes what
I love political journeys, especially how people left the "Anti SJW" cesspool.
Same here
That's exactly how I got into politics. Thanks Anita!
Mine is regrettably from a liberal to a reactionary and then a socialist.
Years back I watched Sargon, TAA and so on. I grew up.
Heretical Hershey I used to be a fascist even though I had no idea what it was about, but looking back now, the ideas I had were definitely fascist/nationalist capitalist. Now I’m a libertarian eco-communist. I was 11-13 when I was a dipshit like that and then I started to get radicalized when I was 14 ish. Became a socialist, then authoritarian socialist, then an authoritarian communist and finally where I am now.
Imagine a timeline where BadMouseProductions was part of Sargon's harem.
I feel the need to shower after reading this.
Ugh
BadMouse runs for ukip in the European election and gets 3 votes
No, stop.
Cursed comment
Awesome, great to see I played a role in your development comrade. 👍🏾
You’re channel is fantastic, comrade!
✊
Subscribe to my patreon if y’all like what I do. Video coming on the abortion crisis later this week:
www.patreon.com/blackredguard
Checked out your account... and you earned my sub, comrade
And there's another left tube channel to follow. Looking forward to learning from you, comrade :)
But also, that ending is probably the best summary of what Marxism is for. We use communism to make our lives better now, or we all will suffer later.
Shoutout to Black Red Guard for the real talk.
Do you know the original source of this video snippet?
Perfectly shaped egg head
Revolutionary vs Reactionary Nationalism.
@@BadMouseProductions Thank you :)
@Chris Indermuehle Why do you think that's true when there has no truly Marxist Leninist Communist country that has ever existed? The fact that power is centralised in countries that claim to be Communist is the antithesis of Communism. How can individuals have any voluntary control or agency when they have given it away to a central authority?
Wherever you're going to go, I hope it WON'T be a circle.
My political journey: happy communist - angry communist - tired communist
@Chris Indermuehle
Oof, no one ever called me stupid. I guess I'll stop being a communist now.
You really showed me. ;)
@Chris Indermuehle
"wisdom of sense" of which you've showed none so far. You don't know a thing about me and all you've thrown at me are presumptions based on nothing but your dislike of communism.
What you're doing with responses like this is merely venting your anger. It's all about you. You're clearly not interested in changing my mind, have a discussion or share your "wisdom".
And that's okay, it's your time, do with it what you will. But then don't fcking lecture me on how I should deal with criticism.
You went from happy to angry to tired.
How political.
@@rhysf.505 That's, like, life in a nutshell. Happy and innocent during childhood, angry during teenage years and young adulthood, and tired when you're older.
Well, life if you're lucky; if you're born very poor or in war, that's another story, for the childhood part.
NOW THE ONLY PART THAT IS MISSING IS THE BEST ONE!!! -dead communist
I had almost literally the same entry into my "disillusionment stage"
I'd been working retail for several years, and I came in and there were absolutely NO managers in the store. None. There was nobody higher ranking than me, or anyone else, there.
Everything went fine, stuff got done, and we all went home at the usual time.
At my new job, this STILL regularly happens. I just come in and there's no one taking charge, so we all just do the usual and nothing bad ever really happens.
Bosses are an unnecessary blockade between you and what your work is actually worth. They're only there to keep you down and coerce you into doing make-work.
What are you on about, some workplaces work well without upper management but if you want to expand you'll need some form of management, not to mention industries that require management even on a lower level
@@niceone550
Why can't the workers decide when and how to expand? Surely nobody understands the material reality of a business better than the people who operate it.
Debating the efficacy of worker owned businesses is pretty pointless though, seeing how successful they tend to get, if we use quality of life, rather than profit, as our metric.
Fyre Britbong can you prove that a business can’t expand without management?
@@joshwilson7061 Look at the co-ops in Brighton that fell apart
@@SpecArch96 If the employees are also the owners they can do what they want, I have nothing against people doing what they like with what they own
the animation is pretty slick, but perhaps you shouldn't have depicted your political life as a cycle
Punished Mouse
A rodent denied his labor vouchers
I'd give my antifa flag
not for honor
but for you
They played us like a damn liberal !
@@weakboson7813 I'm gonna bring back the motherland
Why are we here
Just to seize the means of production?
@@karlosmarcos5587 every night, I can feel my workers' rights, my purges, even my centrally planned economy.
You feel it too, don't you?
Finally, you have earned the right to call yourself GoodmouseProductions
Underrated comment 😄
Ilija *Bestmouse
[standing ovation]
[soviet anthem starts playing]
I'm glad to see this back on TH-cam. I remember watching this video (back when I was still a dogmatic anarchist) and was like ''pffft that won't be me.'' All it took was seeing a coup happen in my dad's country (Bolivia) and wake up to the realities of what Israel has been doing to Palestine (where my grandfather lived before the Nakba) for me to say ''Well badmouse was right. Politics is serious''
I also went from center right to libertarian capitalist to libertarian socialist to anarcho communist to Maoist and finally settled on "I support all forms of existing socialism because our #1 priority should be to end imperialism so that people around the world can lift themselves out of constant, violent poverty."
If it happened to us, the good news is that it is happening to others. No coincidence that we had the exact same political progression. Marxism is coming back in the West, and it's coming back strong.
Sound sentiment but I feel we need one specific correct line.
@@BadMouseProductions MLM comrade. Though I understand in your country it barely exists so... ML will have to do :)
@@BadMouseProductions There is only one problem with that. No ideology has a complete monopoly on the truth. Different circumstances require different actions. I for one,(as an ancom) recognize that Vanguardism did great things for Burkino Faso. I criticize it for different reasons. But if all we do is sectarian infighting, the fascists win. The left needs an organized front, and the debates can come latter. If Anarchists and ML's spent half the energy that they do fighting online on real world action, we could help a lot of people. That should be the goal, not ideological purity.
I'm with @@greenporcupine8535
Yes , i also think we need to be united to win
I used to be pretty intensely and strictly anarchist, mocking any leftist not an anarchist as a tankie, but now that I actually have a proper political understanding, I give a lot more Credence to the entire left. My ideal world is still an anarchist one, but I find all leftist ideologies ultimately more worthwhile than the continuation of the status quo.
Any progress is good progress.
That ideal is one shared by all of us. Even tankies.
Anarchist here, likely still have some holdover of dislike for the USSR and such from when I was a right-libertarian. Started learning a little more and can see how mislead and myopic I was. Still an anarchist, but I've put blind sectarianism aside, especially since speaking to a few tankies in person.
Friendly conversations can change the course of a life, unsurprisingly.
@@jb_lofi If only more people on the left could put down their petty sectarianism and embrace what we are all supposed to be fighting for. I honestly think the left is better at destroying itself than reactionaries and propagandists are.
@@garrett9945 I certainly have. But my own experience doesn't really mean anything. It's anecdotal. Infighting is a fairly large epidemic. Just look at the California Red Guard which disbanded recently. There was another time semi-recently where anarchists defaced a building a ML organization was using. These are just examples, but I think it's an understatement to say it doesn't really happen.
@@garrett9945 What exactly do you mean? It usually happens due to fundamental differences in the approaches of Marxists and anarchists. Certain anarchist groups will sometimes refuse to cooperate with Marxists who they see as supporters of a genocidal state capitalist/red fascist machine (the USSR) which created a new ruling class which oppressed the workers. And Marxists will refuse to work with anarchists, seeing them as naïve, ideologically weak, childish, too bourgeois, revisionists, etc.
There's also ideological splits between left communists and the rest of the left. Leftcoms tend to see revolution as something which cannot be brought about by workers, and for this other Communists will call them arm chair socialists.
In addition, identity politics is probably the second largest cause of conflict following behind Marxist Vs. anarchist infighting. "Idpol" (short hand for identity politics) is an issue which transcends ideological dogmatism. Factions of anarchists and Marxists alike will denounce it for being bourgeois and counter productive to the class struggle. Supporters of Idpol however, claim that Idpol is NOT antithetical to class struggle as it merely promotes the well being of discriminated minorities and groups.
There's also a constant war between Liberalism and Socialism where Socialists will tend to term things that represent bad traits of contemporary society as Liberalism. So Socialists are always trying to root it out. Even when it means excluding groups of workers who were raised in racist and mysoginistic environments from joining the struggle and in the process learning more about the things they think they are against.
Sectarianism is how it happens.
Shoutout to everyone who is perpetually stuck in the disillusionment phase.
Let's at least get the praxis right..
What if you get disillusioned about disillusionment?
I'm definitely in it right now. Watching both Sargon and ContraPoints, and agreeing with both of them is kinda disorienting. Also re-affirms my belief that people who bash Sargon don't even know what his actual politics are, but I digress.
@@GameGod77 how are you doing nowadays ? Still argeeing with both ?
@@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen Unsubbed from Sargon like 2 years ago at this point. After he made a video trying to justify why he wouldn't debate "people like Vaush" after he got BTFO'd I knew at that point he'd lost all integrity.
For me, it was Kyle Kulinski that blew my bubble and actually looking up real numbers and statistics (first being about Medicare for all) turning me into an extreme soc dem then learning the history of socialism (moving away from anti-communist propagandist) and realizing that socialism had worked turning me into an MLM.
@Danny J. Damn straight.
Yep. Kyle changed my life
I misread MLM as Multi-Level Marketing (my bad, very, very bad) . I'd love to see a positive reverse MLM were people give to their down-line instead of making their up-line rich. See link: www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/9cjqhe/positive_reverse_mlm_schemes/
Kyle even though he isn't a radical has shaped alot of the radical political left on TH-cam.
Same here, only I've never gone further left than Market Socialism.
somebody should make a video about the history of left youtube
not me though, I am too lazy
Nice.
@Siuz yeah, the old imageboard times^^ I hope we will finally grow out of that phase but always look back at that time because we had so much fun
I'd also love to see this. Say what you will about the man, but Jason's seen it all. He's been making videos for what, 10 years now?
You've have a look.
I've have brains
Let's go, make history.
Man, I used to watch Alex Jones and that's how I got into politics. Jones introduced me to Stefan Molymeme and eventually Stefan did a debate with a communist. Which convinced me to read the Communist Manifesto. From there I became a hardcore Christian Commie. I saw Capitalism as an affront to the gospel and became increasingly disgusted by society. Eventually I found the Finnish Bolshevik who really flipped my world view on its head. For awhile after that I was a hardcore tankie. But Socialism or Barbarism helped me understand the need for left unity. And now I'm an anti-sectarian ML. Crazy thinking back on it all and how far I've come.
Edit: Big thanks to Batko and SocOrBar for giving me a place to feel at home in the lefty community. Wouldn't have been the same without those guys.
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@@comradesoros2681
I was wondering where my damn paycheck was lol.
Damn, I think the ending seriously shook me. I don't know how to verbalize what I am feeling, but I feel completely floored like I just had something kicked out from under me. Thanks for the video BadMouse. I feel this might have just impacted me.
Made me realize, if you're here for the long haul, you'll give all.
@@jasonmartin4775
It's an odd feeling when you realize that political ideology is pretty useless until you actual do something with it. Funny how this is the first video of his I watched.
I'll still remain where I am, but at least I'm trying to be active in reality and not just in my head.
@@Fireplayish Can't argue there
Honestly one of the best parts of “The Left” is that, despite the fact that we all fight constantly, we all agree that something has got to change in the world.
So does the Right, idiot. And does the Left really want to change things? More of the same expansion of government power, more of the same cultural and moral degradation masquerading as progress while taking away humanity's Kantian entitlement to self-ownership and self-determined destiny. More lies about the impossibility of objectivity based upon a Marxist and postmodern view of man and language as completely contextually determined, in spite of arguments to the contrary made by C. S. Peirce in the 19th century. It is surprising how much modern economic and philosophical lunacy was refuted in the 19th century, and yet the "change" sought by the Left has pushed its sophistry so far as to so completely command the mainstream as to benefit whatever bunch of bureaucrats are whining about their associated special interest group today. Normie libtards and commie wannabe crims are all culpable for flaws in theory and even more in practice, and I beg that they stop ruining everyone else's lives and brainwashing humanity with the cultural denial of individual responsibility that their ideologies imply and produce. Appreciate your extremely high standard of living before you start fighting for its end; civilisation is a miraculous thing given the evils of humanity. Sure, crony capitalism is shit, but reform should result from theoretical and factual discourse changing the ideas of the intellectual elites who spread ideas among us herds, so that democratic politics tends further in the direction of human liberty and attacking of special interest groups privileged by government power. Challenge every single belief you have, ESPECIALLY your value judgments. If you think something is wrong or have definitions of wrong and right, ask yourself why, and then why to that, and so forth. The starting point of your liberation from your indoctrination is philosophy; "The oracle at Delphi says I am the wisest man in all of Athens. It is because I am the only man in Athens who knows that I know nothing."
The editing gets better for every video!
I noticed that too. Soros must have raised his wage.
Maybe our real political beliefs are the friends we made along the way
I had a bigger jump. I went from conservative to commie
I wana hear your story if you don't mind, I would like to know what changed and what influenced you
The other way around for me
@@silvergriffin2585 what got me was understanding markets more, as well as already being pro human rights, and accepting that in order for a communist state to exist is for the state to control everything about our daily lives, which paves the way for authoritarianism
this was massively interesting, and I also very much appreciate the idea you aren't fond of picking a label
I had a quite similar Journey of thought, From a Christian Conservative to an Athiest Liberal now to an Atheist Communist!
i went reverse, but switch lib and com, and replace communism with nazism
embarrassing
We've all been liberals before we became leftist. (Unless you were born to commie parents.)
Hell, when I was 18, I was in favour of Hartz IV as part of the Agenda 2010!!!
Because I was young and had been raised rather sheltered, so I had no idea how the real world worked.
I had no idea about the extent of wealth inequality nor the extent of the greed of the capital owners.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept#Hartz_IV
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010
I wasn't liberal, but in Aus the Liberal party is the right wing party and not actually liberal at all so helps to teach a negative connotation from a young age haha
@@CautiousKieran Yeah, I wouldn't have labelled myself a "liberal" back then. Here, the liberal party are neoliberals. The party of the better-off.
But my outlook on the world back then is comparable to what liberals are in the US today.
Welp for Me it was from being Fascist to Commie to Socialist to Conservative to Ancap to Now Center-Right, respect everybody pls!!!
I've decided to clarify my views a bit more 4 years on as I've found a lot of people falling down the ML hole these days.
I've come to find Marxism-Leninism impotent and wrong on many levels, and I was an absolute fool to have given it such legitimacy and voice. If you are feeling susceptible to these kinds of ideas I can assure you that you will not get anywhere with them if you're genuinely interested in the liberation of humanity.
If you have any questions regarding this feel free to ask.
I still agree with my conclusion, the supermarket of ideology is a privileged thing, people who NEED politics is very different from people who are just INTERESTED in politics.
The power centralization created by a state lead to the creation of yet another class system, federal vs proletariat rather than bourgeoisie vs proletariat. You cannot have a classless society if you have a state. I am defining a state as in group with a Monopoly on the use of force. Governments can exist without states.
You kinda need to look bad at it. I haven't watched your lastest vidéos, but your cirttique of Vaush was so bad that i could only feel taking teh side of Vaush.
And by teh wya reupload your video on eats germany please.
@badmouseproductions
Badmouse I am also someone who feels similarly disillusioned from Marxism-Leninism. What made you come to that conclusion? I know you articulated some of your reasoning on the “Tankies” video but further explanation would be great!
@@SeoSan550the short answer is that I was fed up of defending states, situations, orgs, people, that with a bit more analysis are clearly not worth defending.
To that end the answers I was given from people as defenses did not answer things and always left holes and ommissions.
Beyond that, MLs in real life and online, at their most devoted, are honestly some of the most out of touch people I've ever accociated with.
@@BadMouseProductions Wait, you still exist???
Funnily enough, the LSR video about you becoming a leftist is actually where i found you.
me too yo
Did you get into Michael Brooks along your journey? There are plenty of criticisms to be made but he was absolutely instrumental in helping me take a bunch of disparate Marxist concepts and connect them to form a coherent political framework. Over the course of a few months, the previous several years of political insights I'd gained suddenly clicked and allowed me to challenge my fundamental understanding of events past and present. It really is a tragedy that he suddenly passed away in 2020 but his body of work is pretty extensive. I wish he'd gotten a chance to do some real writing
Black Red Guard has been a favorite of mine for years.
Dude does some great shit.
God I practically went through this whole cycle in under 2 years.
Honestly I stopped with this whole label stuff. I just consider myself a socialist/ communist who values democracy. Labels and theory aren’t the important part, praxis is what really matters
How can you be a communist who values democracy? If people opt out of your communist society, you're going to let them?
@@JJ-hu4cm How can you be an abolitionist who values freedom? If people opt out of freedom by selling themselves back into slavery, you're going to let them?
@@Swagaito_Gai What kind of bullshit argument is that?
Interesting video dude! I was apolitical until I became a Jordan Peterson fan in 2017 as a 17 year old. Before that I was a philosophical pessimist. I was reading Ligotti, Schopenhauer etc. But then Jordan's stuff gave me a sense of meaning and purpose. Politically I was a soc dem, but held anti-feminist views due to his influence. He was always talking about how monstrous Marx, Foucault and others are and since I've always read much I decided to read for myself. I discovered that a lot of what Marx said made sense. A lot of what Foucault wrote made sense. It became apparent to me that Jordan had lied and that he had not read these thinkers himself. I abandoned Jordan's bullshit and became a leftist. Reading Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Mark Fisher, Stokely Carmichael, Silvia Federici, Rosa Luxemburg, Frantz Fanon etc. I became a radical leftist, at first denouncing socialism that actually existed, but later on discovering the tremendous good in those places even with all their flaws. Michael Parenti has certainly been very important for me and reading studies and watching leftist youtubers. I wouldnt consider myself a ML, but feel closer to that than to anarchism. Different perspectives on the left have a lot to offer so I just consider myself a communist.
Those are some great authors to read in a short space of time, good work comrad!
I'm a fascist.
Foucault was right-wing, as was the Frankfurt School and Marx/Engels.
Change my mind.
How do you know that Peterson lied and had never read them?
BLACKREDGUARD MY BOI
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth." ~ Raoul Vaneigem
Great video by the way.
WOW!! ANOTHER SPECIAL ONE!!
tbh part of why i label myself anarchist is because it's a vague term, it just means skepticism towards hierarchy, without declaring this or that current of philosophy to be part of your identity or something
like, i read marx and all, but there are also sound arguments made for different paradigms like post-structuralism or post-marxism, which rejects dialectical materialism, and marxism itself is a varied field of thought,
also most anarchist i know of fall back on marxism for interpreting the world, like the concepts of class struggle are often used by them ??
“Criticism and Self-Criticism”
“Continuity and Rupture”
*chanting* maoist badmouse maoist badmouse
Me: Say it...Say it....
Bad Mouse: "Contradiction"
Me: *cheers*
I'm a Libertarian Socialist. I used to be a communist.
@Chris Indermuehle Please read a book before showing that you are ignorant!
If I was going to describe my political "journey" it would probably be something like:
*2013-14* Liberal / SocDem
*2014-17* "Classical Liberal" / Anti-SJW skeptic
™
*2017-18* SocDem
*2018-Now* Some kind of leftist, leaning towards anarchism but also curious about Marxist ideas
Who knows where I'll end up.
youre most likely gonna end up as a nazbol
GANG GANG
MAN NOBODY CARES!!
@@vrk1dc1ty Never in a million years.
Black Red Guard's channel really is life-changing, basically made me realize that this constant need to label oneself is pointless in the face of what we have now. Also one of the better people when it comes to talking about the shortcomings of anarchism without being condescending. Good shit!
Did he change names?
@@Zakdayak Yes, now it’s Better Red Than Dead
"I was a centrist before it was cool." lolz
I've been interested in politics for more than a decade. My political engagement began during a pre-crisis period right before the Great Recession; War on Terror, global warming and consumerism were earliest issues around which I formed my political worldviews. In short, my political journey has been like this: liberal nationalist, progressive liberal, left liberal, Stalinist/Marxist-Leninist, Titoist, democratic socialist, social democrat, left-communist, left-libertarian, libertarian socialist, anarcho-primitivist and finally anarcho-communist/eco-anarchist today. Over time I adopted increasingly progressive positions on social issues, from LGBT rights to drug laws. Also, my current political positions aren't strictly limited to single strand of anarchism. I take a lot of my ideas from Libertarian Municipalism and left-wing market anarchism. P.S. Mouse, I had no idea you were as old as I am.
I remember watching your video in 2017 about The School of Life where you had recommended Philosophy Tube at the end. Initially hesitant, I watched his Mad Marx series which was an actual introduction to the ideas of Marx instead of what I had heard from Alt-right. Then one thing led to another, I started watching one bread tube video after another over the course of 2017 and 2018, making me more aware of left's politics. Thus, you were the turning point in my political journey from taking me away from alt-right rabbit hole.
I'm 16. I have had my socialist view on life (I'm not kidding) scince I was 7. I just didn't know that I had it or what to call it. In 8th grade a friend of mine explained to me what communism and capitalism were and scince then, to this day, I identify as a maxist-lenninist.
So I never made any jumps up till now, I've known what to identify as befor I got political and my opinion has goten stronger rather than weaker the more I reasearch.
Wow, I feel like kids didn't know what the hell any of that was where I live when I was in 8th grade. But somewhere, seemingly out of nowhere in high school when we had to make up a society and describe everything about it, everyone had this idea that "communism doesn't really work in reality/practice". I didn't remember learning anything about communist countries, that was just accepted as fact. Wtf!
I guess I'm special:). Non of my friends are commies.
I am a bit older, but yeah same
Maybe because my parents both were raised in the gdr and while not defining themselves at socialists, but probably they took parts of the ideology with them after the wall collapsed.
So I knew who Marx was with the age of 8 because I gushed over an old encyclopaedia from the 80s which my mother owned (but now I took it haha pretty cool book btw and one of the few ones where some articels got comments on how Lenin viewed it which are twice as long as the article)
But yeah with 16 I slowly began to understand the concept of communism and anarchism and while I haven'r read much literature about it, I have to say that ML is probably the thing I am drawn to the most
@@karlmags4022 the education system here just really wants us to be a bunch of mindless workers. We don't even learn our whole history, just this white washed woo woo USA version. I live on the US Mexico border and we have a huge military base here too, there's just a lot that hurts my people here and stifles our ability to really become politically active rather than just stay complicit and complacent with the current system. It's sooo hard to organize. But we understand why and sometimes annoying people come from out of town just go go talk shit about us when they have no idea of the problems we have (often rich liberals, granted). We really need to reach more youth somehow. Right wingers do their damndest to indoctrinate children and teenagers.
For me it is also the same, I Always had the same political view and then at some point when I heard what socialism and communism means I found out that I am somewhere inbetween socialism and communism.
Some fantastic points made, great video comrade!
Bernie Sanders turned me from a neoliberal centrist to a social democrat. Then socialist memes on Tumblr single handedly radicalized me to becoming a Marxist
Funny I became a reactionary from these same sources.
If you think memes turn you into something.
Then you have not turned into something.
@@The80sWolf_ well, it was a combination of things. But the memes did play a big role in helping me understand where communists stood on issues and how those issues connect to capitalism.
TH-cam should have heart reacts. Thanks for sharing your story.
In reality, labels can either unite or divide. In reality, oppression only ends when unity in action supersedes labels. Peace and solidarity ✊🏼
My political journey started in 7th grade when I saw a video of the singer of Korn talking to Alex Jones about the illuminati and I thought "Wow, this makes a lot of sense"
Holy shit
You're an interesting dude and I appreciate the openness and honesty. Sorry about the loss of your friend.
I went from (At Age 12) Atheist -> An Cap -> New Christian -> atheist -> Fascist -> neo liberal -> Suc Dem -> Socialist (16 now)
Very interesting. Thank you. I've been a socialist all my life, so I find your description of your transition extremely helpful.
As someone who is still centre, I can still relate to this. A journey through your political beliefs is interesting because so many people go through this and even to those who aren't very interested go through something similar too.
First I was a nationalist then became a semi-fascist, then after converting to Christianity I became a conservative. After about 2-3 years I turned to libertarian theology, then a few months later became a trot after about a year I became a normal Marxist and lastly I became an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist
Are you still a Christian? Just wondering
Was formerly a Lutheran and am now a catholic so yes
From nationalist to internationalist, huh.
Cool story man, it prooves that people can change quite radically.
What the fuck.
Danny J. - 👍🏻
The ending is 10/10. Often times world views in western cultures have a massive scotomal tumor just ignoring the fact that the convenience of coffee table politics is often argued from a point of physical comfort especially when it comes to modern oppressive views or when someone wants to state their personal firm line on who qualifies to be treated as their equal. How easy it is to switch views when there is food and shelter regardless of the direct, and how much easier to fight wars if there is nothing to personally lose.
Went from far-right anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-trans, racist and christian to centrist to libertarian right, capitalism with no restrictions to Anarcho-Communist and I think I'm slowly becoming a Marxist-Leninist right now.
My journey was more or less socdem>demsoc>libcom>ancom
Middle class wanker.
"Should we do political journey videos?"
Gonna stop ya right there. Yes. Please. As a politically adrift ex-lib, I find it very informative.
Thanks.
NOT REALLY!! SPARE US THE DIAREA MAN!! UNLESS IF IT IS TO COMPLETELLY CRACK MY ASS LAUGHTING OF ALL YOU RETARDS!!
Are you ok
My journey was rather similar, I went from Liberal to Right Centrists then NeoCon to Ancap, then I went to SocDem after a long process, after some time I became Anarcho Syndicalists until I finally became a Leninist Communist today
Looking back I wish I could travel back in time and beat myself in the face for some of my views and posts, but it’s in the past now, we’re all imperfect and change, we all did or say something terrible when you were less developed
The libertarian communist pipeline?
Some of the most outspoken individuals have taken this journey.
Includes me... :/
Trust me, you didn't take the full jorney yet.
Tijl van Emous I feel like the critique that you can give to authoritarian government applies to capitalism to an extent. I see libertarian capitalists as the best for us to convert for that reason
No War But The Class War same, but was more centrist and currently not anarchal or full on communist(ie, liberal)
Who says you cannot be an anarchist whilst using the theoretical framework of marxism, marxism is about critique and my marxism incorporates anarchist theory too. They are not mutually exclusive
Sadly this is something that falls on deaf ears. At least when it comes to tankies.
I kinda want to say I will fight the tankies like I will fight capitalism, fascism and imperialism. I will not let someone replace a system of oppression with another.
You either believe an interim dictatorship of the proletariat is necessary to the creation of a communist society or you don't. If you're "using the theoretical framework of Marxism", you aren't an anarchist. But you won't know that, since you haven't read the theory.
@badmouseproductions this video was really touching and relatable for me. Keep making vids and stay revolutionary ✌
I was a white supremacist for 14 years, a social democrat for four and an anarchist now coming on one year.
I like the fact that my political views change and adapt. And Woah, amazing production.
Bad Mouse is a Tankie confirmed?
y e s
@@DoctorTrollzor LeninLover 1917 is a Tankie confirmed?
Yes
@@Andrearuch97 Why? It fits
I really enjoy political privilege/journey videos because it feels like I can learn more about people in general and Politics as well. It gives a good perspective outside of my usual hard left socialist communist circle.
the problem with the "praxis over everything" is that could lead to fascism in some way
"frontiers: practical to manage economy and 'being safe' "
I went from a fascist to communist...
Very enjoyable and relatable vid. I sense a bit of a contrarian streak in you
Fuck off.
now that i've seen the video i start to worry about the fact that maybe the next month you may change and become a nazbol
What would lead him to that?
@Gutter Hero Imagine thinking the far-right had sense
You say that like it's a bad thing ;)
Amazing video. Thank you for continuing to share your perspective on the internet.
Another heartfelt great video, thank you Bad Mouse.
Waiting for the anprim phase
The industrial revolution and it's consequences...
have been a disaster...
@@a.e.m.1452 Teddy did nothing wrong
I was a libertarian for about 3 days once.
Sad times
That bit in the end is very eye-opening
I have always been a proud capitalist from my lawn-mowing business at age 12 till today .
Sad.
@@cutecommie No you 😁
Soviet Loli
We will destroy you socialists thoroughly. I can’t wait to be able to kill two or three of you before you kill me. I have had a death wish against socialists like you since I was born. You disgust me.
It appears you are an English version of me lol
Except I was a georgist before I turned left
And I'm a Marxist-Leninist now, not just leaning
At 7:44 I looked down at the video uploader and audibly groaned "OHHH NOOO"
I did the same thing.
You turned me onto Freire some months ago and I wanted to say thank you sincerely friend.
Man. That's a really interesting journey you've gone though. I only ran into you channel around 2017. It's really inspiring and hopeful to know that curiousity can still lead to such insight shifts. I'm really happy you did, as your videos have helped this fellow traveler to articulate our common grounds and even where we disagreed.
Condolences for your loss.
Wait, what happened to all of your newer videos?
ikr? he seemed to put a lot of work into those
as long as you don't betray and murder the anarchists come revolution I'll allow it
But murdering anarchists is soooooo fun...........
it's inevitable fam
just cos anarchists are much cooler smh bootlickers
As an ML, if ML's start gunning down anarkiddos I'll personally grab my SKS and turn my barrel towards anyone who fires a single bullet at you guys. First and foremost we are brothers. As Communists we all strive for the same end goal. Sure we disagree sometimes, but at the end of the day we are family.
breaking windows and using smack isn't cool anymore kiddo
Thanks for telling your story. It''s been quite a year for me, going from a die-hard Democrat to a very serious socialist, reading about communism, political theory and all sorts of things.
This is good. Thanks for making it.
Welcome to the Real world Mouse. Now that you know that politics is not just another form of commodified entertainment you are ahead of many of your elders.
Not entirety dissimilar to me. Never thought much about politics, but I'd been raised in a cultural atmosphere of Blairite neoliberalism, so that's what I was. I was also very much into the new atheism crowd by the time I was 18. Then the crash happened, same year I started working for a bank (my first real job), and after a couple of years I was kind of hating myself for being there. I developed an incoherent but strong anticapitalism, initially informed (I use that word advisedly) by the Zeitgeist films and spurred on by the Occupy movement. I then had a prolonged and confused period of being both anti-capitalist and into anti-SJW stuff, although I never went fully alt right. About 5/6 years ago I started to move away from all that and actually learn some theoretical principles, got into Marx after studying for my Philosophy Masters in 2019, and now I'm very much an unabashed Marxist leftcom.
Interestingly, I still have a few vestiges of my neoliberalism and anti-SJWism, I sometimes struggle with how incompatible those views are and which ones should win out. We're all learning all the time, I guess.
I've also heard a lot of people with similar stories. I wonder what it is that leads so many people from Harris, post-9/11 Hitchens, Dawkins etc to being Marxists and anarchists and whatnot. I feel a lot of us probably owe our politics to them in some weird way, but I can't put my finger on how.
Never think that you’ve reached the end point of your journey, no matter how old you are. If you believe that that Marxist Leninism is the way to go and that questioning the specifics is ruining the lives of the people you want to help, could this not lead to an ineffective solution? How can a system ever be reformed if it’s ideology is inflexible? Is that not religious in nature? “Don’t question god, it is a sin when he only sacrificed himself to save you. Accept all his teachings and devote your life to saving the world by spreading the good word”
Never believe that a personality trait you hated from the past is gone just because you know it exists. You must be able to explain why it exists, and make active efforts to avoid it.
Rebellion is critical when a true injustice is found. But rebellion in any way possible no matter the global impact is not how you create a lasting impact. With each rebellious action you perform, you must have a planned outcome for what exactly will result. Riots may make you feel good, but do they boost the public perception of socialists? They seem to allow the media to create a strawman of what socialists are, and drive people away due to the perception that they are violent, when many may be open to the ideas but want a peaceful way of accomplishing it.
Thanks for the video. It was very enlightening hearing you perspective.
I have so much respect for you mate, i hope one day we will fight side by side
"Politics is serious" I feel like this hits especially hard for me since I grew up in a working class family, I never was anything close to a right wing position because I simply saw its effects in day to day life. What likley helped is having a good Social Dem Teacher that pushed a Humanist and empathetic position down my throat and my unwillingness to work 9 hours per day was just a path towards Cooperatives. And I guess thats where I remain today, an Eco Democratic Socialist...
Also Im not an Anarchist but I feel like that straight jump to Marxism felt like an uninformed decision to me, its like you didnt even look at Anarchist theory at all and were peer presured into an Authoritarian mindset. Kind of sad honestly
It’s true he really should definitively refute or endorse anarchism (the communist kind) I want to here the full opinion.
Heh.... Its funny, because I think im at the disolusionate stage myself... Private property makes so much sense to me, but... It leads to the people owning the property becoming opresive of people who dont have it... And megacorps do bad things... And I always believed that the government should be kept in check to avoid tyranny...
Thanks for this video, I need to think about those ideas...
Thank you. We might still disagree on many points (for now), but your intellectual honesty is what's important. Please watch some more of Bad Mouse and some Libertarian Socialist Rants. They have some great responses to your questions.
By the way, private property and personal property are two separate things. Private property normally refers to land and manufacturing that is owned by a private entity, whereas personal property are materials owned by an individual. Best way to think about it is the business you work for and your home is private property because it is and can be used to increase capital (or used by the state for such purposes). Personal property would be things like clothes, electronics, land that is not used for capital but used for communal (and individual) sustainment.
There are others who can go more indepth, but I wish you luck on your journey and hope you can transition to our side, because, time is running out for us and the marketplace of ideas have failed and need more people willing to spread out message openly. Again, thank you for your intellectual honesty nonetheless.
This was an amazing video thank you.
I get the idea that ideology is more a cafeteria if you're more privileged.
At the same time, we all have journeys through our idea of how the world works and how to change it for the better.
The ending was very powerful.
Yes