Hi Varn! You've mentioned earlier about having a discussion with Cutrone about the distinction of Capitalism and Bourgeois society in Marx. Is this still something that is in the books or has it fallen through. I would be very interested in it at the very least as I've been following you two the most closely, since MJB.
The notion of voting as a civic duty, and the idea that the non-voter "can't complain" or abdicates any rights, strikes me as undemocratic in a presumptively authoritarian way, and this seems to be a tactic aggressively taken up by liberal Democrats after they lose elections, I.E. cast blame and project assumptions onto the non-voter. The notion of mandatory voting as a solution to low participation only further enforces the defacto status quo, in which those who do vote have highly constrained choices. The non-voter doesn't defacto consent to whatever those with power do any more than the voter IMO.
studebaker said on a TU vid that non-voting amounts to not being convinced by either side's scare tactics and rhetoric. seems to contradict what your takeaways are here. good topic for a convertsation!
@@VarnVlog I was murky on the normative vs descriptive, just looked it up. Normative statements are "ought to" statements and descriptive are "is" statements? So, Ben was saying "the mass of non-voters ought to be interpreted as being unconvinced by party rhetoric?"
Hi Varn! You've mentioned earlier about having a discussion with Cutrone about the distinction of Capitalism and Bourgeois society in Marx. Is this still something that is in the books or has it fallen through. I would be very interested in it at the very least as I've been following you two the most closely, since MJB.
It will happen but I haven't set it up yet. I was waiting to get Cutrone's new book
@@VarnVlog Great!
A manufactured problem, a manufactured freedom.
The notion of voting as a civic duty, and the idea that the non-voter "can't complain" or abdicates any rights, strikes me as undemocratic in a presumptively authoritarian way, and this seems to be a tactic aggressively taken up by liberal Democrats after they lose elections, I.E. cast blame and project assumptions onto the non-voter. The notion of mandatory voting as a solution to low participation only further enforces the defacto status quo, in which those who do vote have highly constrained choices. The non-voter doesn't defacto consent to whatever those with power do any more than the voter IMO.
studebaker said on a TU vid that non-voting amounts to not being convinced by either side's scare tactics and rhetoric. seems to contradict what your takeaways are here. good topic for a convertsation!
That only holds on the national level- but Ben’s statement is normative, mine is mostly descriptive with about what we see from numbers
@@VarnVlog I was murky on the normative vs descriptive, just looked it up. Normative statements are "ought to" statements and descriptive are "is" statements? So, Ben was saying "the mass of non-voters ought to be interpreted as being unconvinced by party rhetoric?"