As someone who grew up poor in Ireland I was deeply affected by thoughts of inferiority my entire childhood. We were herded into ghettos by the State and policed heavily. I had very few aspirations growing up. Education was not encouraged except for a basic one. We barely had enough to eat and I wore my dad's worn out hand me downs as a teen. I felt disgustingly unlovable but that was in part because my mother abandoned me when I was 2 and I was viciously picked on as a child because I wasn't quite like the rough kids on the street. So I had to learn to be rough. The ghetto I found myself in shaped me as much I hated it and wanted to escape it. My mother shaped me by her absence. The State shaped me by it's disgust and disregard for me. I was once viciously attacked when I was 15 by a frothing drunken mad man as I walked through a field near my home. He literally tried to bite my ear off and I could feel his teeth scraping my ear and I pushed his head away from my face. I used to read and hear about the discrimination the Irish received abroad and knew that we were sometimes called "The blacks of Europe", which has only recently changed since we developed into a first world nation. Now we are cocky and self assured and we are starting to despise the outsider where once we embraced them. Seems the more one has the more one wants and the more one thinks one can have the more one is willing to fight and die for it. Hoffman stated that it is not the abjectly poor that will fight for their "rights" but the middle class. Because they fear falling to the very bottom and have a sense that they may be able to reach for the top. Those at the bottom, like I was, felt there was no way of escape and those at the top simply want to maintain their status as the privileged few.
Well I was raised as a special education student, and have an IQ of about 90. Was labelled as "mentally handicapped." so my sense of inferiority comes from a different place. I believe for poverty we need a peer to peer business model. And I don't mean crowdfunding. Or micro finance in the sense of giving micro loans. Most of these are spent on consumption, do nothing for capacity building, do not increase consumer demand, have little to no relationship building with the poor, do not connect the marginalized to wider economic markets, and make the poor net creditors to the rich. I mean p2p in the same sense as Uber or Airbnb only with the development sector, and one that requires real relationship building, and deeper localization at the community level. Even an organization like Kiva has no relationship building, only the passing of funds. Therefore it is not adequate to create true change. And massive organizations like Facebook, have large market penetration but very low depth in terms of bringing people together in a deeper way. If I had my ideal system I would setup critical service learning programs with organizations, and priority groups, and focus on capacity building. Most likely over a 1-3 year process. From here I would organize micro corporations of 200-300 families. I would setup a subscription service. People pay money which goes up according to income. That money is pooled into "trusts" that are overseen in a group fiduciary capacity. Different funds have different purposes. But the purpose is to codetermine how funds are used with the poor directly. Most likely have profit loss sharing and organize in a similar manner to general partnerships. In the ideal situation I would have a company like Facebook, that is about civic engagement, social impact, and have micro corporations or groups that it owns. I believe the power of social network technology is massive. But untapped. Facebook has a billion users. We need to take this kind of framework, and apply it to the global poor. Also employee to volunteer/subscriber ratio needs to be at around 1 percent at the most. Why? Because you need to have a lean system with very low overhead, with a rising income stream in order to scale against global poverty. Of course I have no money, no connections, and don't have an Ivy league education so scaling anything is pretty freaking impossible.
This is a great video. Thank you so much. I am Hawaii. Our Nation of Hawaii still illegally occupied by United States military lawlessness piracy that no international laws or treaties between nations are enforceable, so they breach it at will and erase nations and peoples from global influence.
So true the genocide that Israeli forces are conducting in Gaza is against international Humanitarian laws but who is going to enforce these laws when the judge, jury and ths sheriff are all criminals in the crime
The world is so depressing, how do people go about their day pretending like everything is fine? I feel like any decent (even surface level) analysis shows the way we live doesnt make sense and is unsustainable. I cant fathom that this is difficult to deduce. So what are we really doing? Is it that the oppressed just really want to become oppressors? Why
You are seeing the contradictions of the world. You need a framework to enact change. Paulo Freire correctly stated "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor". Things are not fine, but we must not despair. If you're interested then you should start reading more revolutionary literature.
How? Because racism and Marxism are false, that's how. Get rid of your violent fantasies with this stupid religion and break out of the Leftist matrix of thought that is painting this depressing illusion to continuously take you in.
Human beings have a vast capacity to cope and adapt. There’s no such thing as objective material relationships to the human mind - all this stuff isn’t the only thing that’s happening to a person. Human beings also aren’t solitary and of course various forms of uneven relationships with status and subordination are going to happen - that doesn’t fully preclude the enjoyment of life. There’s still music, still love, still happiness. And there’s also still rage, violence, drugs - lots of ways to release or regulate feelings so you aren’t always feeling a static sense of your material condition, for better or worse. The most imperialistic, exploitative, dehumanizing thing to believe is that people facing some sort of drastic suffering or disadvantage don’t already have experience outside that suffering or disadvantage - that the poor orphan is never anything other than poor or an orphan unless you fix them. That’s an affront to other minds. Ultimately though life is what happens as you make other plans. The angel of history is flying backwards into the future and doesn’t see the present. If you look at everything and are _always_ depressed then your response is not falsifiable and thus not likely grounded in external reality, but rather in the only thing that’s always there with you - yourself.
Enjoy your channel, but one criticism here: you don't understand Marxism. You say that communism will be riven with racism and sexism and offer as evidence that these horrors predate capitalism. Marx does not argue that precapitalist societies were free of social ills--not at all. Precapitalist societies were built on hierarchies and economic exploitation as well. Mqarx argues that if you eliminate the socio-economic relationships which support racism and sexism that the latter will disappear. Whether he is correct is a good question, but to say that Marxism is wrong based on the fact that racism precedes capitalism is to fundamentally misunderstand Marxism.
Even today one can see the racism and the support it receives from colonial masters the USA, UK, France Germany who are supporting a racial genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Occupied natives of Palestine
Thanks ever so much! A great book to read before this is "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism." And remember, the West is at this very moment undergoing sweeping "internal colonization" which cannot be ignored (except by those carrying it out).
Thank you for this. Any attention to Fanon is always welcome. I think it's important to say that Fanon didn't say that violence is a necessary element to decolonization because colonial structures were built through violence and they can only be undone by the same method. As a psychiatrist he knew that true liberation, not only material but also psychological, could only be attained when the with the physical killing of the oppressor by the oppressed
I think the issue is more about submitting to the “technological” way of thinking and life vs the capitalist way of life. I’m thinking of Jacques Ellul and Hannah Arendt here.
"species" of people... Did Fanon use the term? It's incorrect to use, if not suspicious, if not for the fact of the time he lived in. There's only one human species, with different ethnicities.
Perhaps your views have changed since making this video, but I'd like to comment on your view of Marxism, because I think it's erroneous. And I mean this in a nice way and to offer you positive critique, especially because I highly doubt your view of Marxism is in bad faith. Honestly, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you've interacted with people who claim to be "Marxists", yet they have either never tried to genuinely study and practice revolutionary Marxism. Studying and practicing revolutionary Marxism is key, as most other iterations of "marxism" are in fact greatly disturbed versions of it. We try to adhere to certain principles Marx offered us, while still updating our interpretation of scientific Socialism and avoiding dogmatism. Marx and Engels, the founders of our understanding of communism, in fact offered the fundamentals of feminism and the national question that later theorists extrapolated on. Revolutionary Marxism is a profoundly anti-racist and anti-sexist ideology, it is not strictly economic. "Marxists" who only adhere to and espouse the economic are not marxists in the authentic term, but economists and reformists that only serve to confuse people's understanding of Marxism.
buddy, extend proxy to capital, you'll understand how greed scorns the meek because the latter's providence is his dignity of living. Pretend thoughts are true so that you'll understand more their nuances based on your doubt.
I recommend you to read Franz Fanon and the algerian revolution written by Mohamed EL Milli, it gives a different reading of most publications about him that reduce Fanon's thought only to a Marxist leftist approach.
This so called non working people, are quite prejudice as too native peoples living in harmony with nature, and not working in an profiteering industry of which to be taxed. If these wise people know they can’t own that of which is not crafted by themselves, like water, land - doesn’t mean they don’t have their land base, it simply can’t be bought or sold as a private ownership that you can now do whatever you want too. That is classified as being dehumanized as to “unwilling to be enslaved by corporate law extracting as much profits as possible from all and everything.
if your race or culture is failing, are racism or colonialism a raft?? Thanks As many marginal groups blame outlier groups or reasons for their demise, can Europeans blame the rigors of nature or survival on colinization, or should Europeans blame genetics?? Thank you
@@ademabderrahmane1093thanks for your feedback. Marxist Guilt induced historical revisionism is old hat to me. Appreciate your courage to have dialogue.
Do you accept the idea that one is responsible for the behavior of their nation state?? Do you believe in a collective guilt that a race is responsible for?? Neoliberalism preaches about the deity of individualism but wants to enslave men to a particular belief system of guilt. These constructs are polar opposite. Darwinism is at the heart of Neoliberalism. Darwinism is basically a math equaiton dealing with survival. There is no moral conflict in domination. This is the behavior of the state which is not a racial matter. This is a separate argument. The elites use racial identity to construct greivances between working classes. Blacks have an embedded vulnerabililty dealing with race. This lever can be used to deflate or inflate incidents almost down to Pavlovian level. There is great wealth and importance of using race. I respect Empiricism. (David Hume). Having order. Post Modern are steadily deconstrunctiong basic form to devalue values brought by the Enlightenment Period. THanks for the opportunity to talk: Thank you
To me, the new human idea is so repulsive. Our native cultural being adapts and matures in a genius that colonialism is deathly afraid of. A true spiritual living relationship with life in one’s biosphere as a whole yet definitely in one’s bio region. The Nation of Hawaii had huge pu’uhonua of very fertile land, from the mountain to the sea (island style) totally outside of private taxable property and within kanawai o kāne as aloha ‘Āina law, where the land is the chief and man is the servant therefore perpetual sustainability is the law.
Oh, come on, the Europeans did not invent hierarchy in the Middle East! The Arabs had a Sultan, which means they had an emperor. That’s about as hierarchical as it can get.
He’s saying that they make it more separated than it originally would have been in their society. That was my understanding. I’m still on chapter one though so I don’t know what the book says yet.
@@sunrisewolfy It's hard to imagine a more hierarchical society than the Turkish Ottoman empire, which had multiple classes of slaves, including Eunuchs and Concubines, as well as second class citizens like Jews and Christians.
Again, more nonsense. He says that nationalism in Europe came about through exploitation of other parts of the world? Please tell me all of the colonies that Poland and Czechoslovakia had in other parts of the world.
As someone who grew up poor in Ireland I was deeply affected by thoughts of inferiority my entire childhood. We were herded into ghettos by the State and policed heavily. I had very few aspirations growing up. Education was not encouraged except for a basic one. We barely had enough to eat and I wore my dad's worn out hand me downs as a teen. I felt disgustingly unlovable but that was in part because my mother abandoned me when I was 2 and I was viciously picked on as a child because I wasn't quite like the rough kids on the street. So I had to learn to be rough. The ghetto I found myself in shaped me as much I hated it and wanted to escape it. My mother shaped me by her absence. The State shaped me by it's disgust and disregard for me. I was once viciously attacked when I was 15 by a frothing drunken mad man as I walked through a field near my home. He literally tried to bite my ear off and I could feel his teeth scraping my ear and I pushed his head away from my face. I used to read and hear about the discrimination the Irish received abroad and knew that we were sometimes called "The blacks of Europe", which has only recently changed since we developed into a first world nation. Now we are cocky and self assured and we are starting to despise the outsider where once we embraced them. Seems the more one has the more one wants and the more one thinks one can have the more one is willing to fight and die for it. Hoffman stated that it is not the abjectly poor that will fight for their "rights" but the middle class. Because they fear falling to the very bottom and have a sense that they may be able to reach for the top. Those at the bottom, like I was, felt there was no way of escape and those at the top simply want to maintain their status as the privileged few.
Well I was raised as a special education student, and have an IQ of about 90. Was labelled as "mentally handicapped." so my sense of inferiority comes from a different place. I believe for poverty we need a peer to peer business model. And I don't mean crowdfunding. Or micro finance in the sense of giving micro loans. Most of these are spent on consumption, do nothing for capacity building, do not increase consumer demand, have little to no relationship building with the poor, do not connect the marginalized to wider economic markets, and make the poor net creditors to the rich. I mean p2p in the same sense as Uber or Airbnb only with the development sector, and one that requires real relationship building, and deeper localization at the community level. Even an organization like Kiva has no relationship building, only the passing of funds. Therefore it is not adequate to create true change. And massive organizations like Facebook, have large market penetration but very low depth in terms of bringing people together in a deeper way.
If I had my ideal system I would setup critical service learning programs with organizations, and priority groups, and focus on capacity building. Most likely over a 1-3 year process. From here I would organize micro corporations of 200-300 families. I would setup a subscription service. People pay money which goes up according to income. That money is pooled into "trusts" that are overseen in a group fiduciary capacity. Different funds have different purposes. But the purpose is to codetermine how funds are used with the poor directly. Most likely have profit loss sharing and organize in a similar manner to general partnerships. In the ideal situation I would have a company like Facebook, that is about civic engagement, social impact, and have micro corporations or groups that it owns. I believe the power of social network technology is massive. But untapped. Facebook has a billion users. We need to take this kind of framework, and apply it to the global poor. Also employee to volunteer/subscriber ratio needs to be at around 1 percent at the most. Why? Because you need to have a lean system with very low overhead, with a rising income stream in order to scale against global poverty. Of course I have no money, no connections, and don't have an Ivy league education so scaling anything is pretty freaking impossible.
Good video, but your takes on Marx show either deep misunderstanding or ill intention.
Pure waffle
This is a great video. Thank you so much. I am Hawaii. Our Nation of Hawaii still illegally occupied by United States military lawlessness piracy that no international laws or treaties between nations are enforceable, so they breach it at will and erase nations and peoples from global influence.
So true the genocide that Israeli forces are conducting in Gaza is against international Humanitarian laws but who is going to enforce these laws when the judge, jury and ths sheriff are all criminals in the crime
The world is so depressing, how do people go about their day pretending like everything is fine? I feel like any decent (even surface level) analysis shows the way we live doesnt make sense and is unsustainable. I cant fathom that this is difficult to deduce. So what are we really doing? Is it that the oppressed just really want to become oppressors? Why
You are seeing the contradictions of the world. You need a framework to enact change. Paulo Freire correctly stated "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor". Things are not fine, but we must not despair. If you're interested then you should start reading more revolutionary literature.
How? Because racism and Marxism are false, that's how. Get rid of your violent fantasies with this stupid religion and break out of the Leftist matrix of thought that is painting this depressing illusion to continuously take you in.
@@Pdstor We could have a conversation if you want. Why are you against marxism? What is your interpretation of the world?
Human beings have a vast capacity to cope and adapt. There’s no such thing as objective material relationships to the human mind - all this stuff isn’t the only thing that’s happening to a person. Human beings also aren’t solitary and of course various forms of uneven relationships with status and subordination are going to happen - that doesn’t fully preclude the enjoyment of life. There’s still music, still love, still happiness. And there’s also still rage, violence, drugs - lots of ways to release or regulate feelings so you aren’t always feeling a static sense of your material condition, for better or worse.
The most imperialistic, exploitative, dehumanizing thing to believe is that people facing some sort of drastic suffering or disadvantage don’t already have experience outside that suffering or disadvantage - that the poor orphan is never anything other than poor or an orphan unless you fix them. That’s an affront to other minds.
Ultimately though life is what happens as you make other plans. The angel of history is flying backwards into the future and doesn’t see the present.
If you look at everything and are _always_ depressed then your response is not falsifiable and thus not likely grounded in external reality, but rather in the only thing that’s always there with you - yourself.
No idea mate. That's a very difficult question.
Absolutely love and appreciate the way you explain - makes it so accessible and understandable. Thanks
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Enjoy your channel, but one criticism here: you don't understand Marxism. You say that communism will be riven with racism and sexism and offer as evidence that these horrors predate capitalism. Marx does not argue that precapitalist societies were free of social ills--not at all. Precapitalist societies were built on hierarchies and economic exploitation as well. Mqarx argues that if you eliminate the socio-economic relationships which support racism and sexism that the latter will disappear. Whether he is correct is a good question, but to say that Marxism is wrong based on the fact that racism precedes capitalism is to fundamentally misunderstand Marxism.
Even today one can see the racism and the support it receives from colonial masters the USA, UK, France Germany who are supporting a racial genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Occupied natives of Palestine
Marxism was a creation of the Rothschilds
Bingo
Any ism, schism, or ish is bull-ish. I know that for sure
As someone who came from a colonized country the idea of decolonization is to create new humans hits home.
I'm really happy to have found your channel. Thank you.
Thanks ever so much!
A great book to read before this is "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism."
And remember, the West is at this very moment undergoing sweeping "internal colonization" which cannot be ignored (except by those carrying it out).
Thank you for this. Any attention to Fanon is always welcome. I think it's important to say that Fanon didn't say that violence is a necessary element to decolonization because colonial structures were built through violence and they can only be undone by the same method. As a psychiatrist he knew that true liberation, not only material but also psychological, could only be attained when the with the physical killing of the oppressor by the oppressed
thank you for this!
Dien Bien Phu is a place name and site of decisive defeat of French forces in Vietnam. Viet Minh is the name of the Vietnamese resistance.
Congragulations for your kind wisdomful efforts
Thanks for this video
I think the issue is more about submitting to the “technological” way of thinking and life vs the capitalist way of life. I’m thinking of Jacques Ellul and Hannah Arendt here.
And Neil Postman
what time does chapter 4 "national culture" start??
"species" of people... Did Fanon use the term? It's incorrect to use, if not suspicious, if not for the fact of the time he lived in. There's only one human species, with different ethnicities.
Fanon used the term species
It carries a less narrowly biological connotation in French.
He did not use it in a literal sense.
Perhaps your views have changed since making this video, but I'd like to comment on your view of Marxism, because I think it's erroneous. And I mean this in a nice way and to offer you positive critique, especially because I highly doubt your view of Marxism is in bad faith. Honestly, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you've interacted with people who claim to be "Marxists", yet they have either never tried to genuinely study and practice revolutionary Marxism. Studying and practicing revolutionary Marxism is key, as most other iterations of "marxism" are in fact greatly disturbed versions of it. We try to adhere to certain principles Marx offered us, while still updating our interpretation of scientific Socialism and avoiding dogmatism. Marx and Engels, the founders of our understanding of communism, in fact offered the fundamentals of feminism and the national question that later theorists extrapolated on. Revolutionary Marxism is a profoundly anti-racist and anti-sexist ideology, it is not strictly economic. "Marxists" who only adhere to and espouse the economic are not marxists in the authentic term, but economists and reformists that only serve to confuse people's understanding of Marxism.
Sounds pretty dogmatic to me.
@@TheoryPhilosophy What do you mean?
@@gagemcphail my patreon info is in the description if you want me to sit down and explain this
@@TheoryPhilosophy Huh?
@@gagemcphail pay me to explain this to you. You weren't expecting free labor from me, were you? Weird thing for a 'marxist' to do
buddy, extend proxy to capital, you'll understand how greed scorns the meek because the latter's providence is his dignity of living. Pretend thoughts are true so that you'll understand more their nuances based on your doubt.
Hey, I really enjoy your videos. Would you, please, consider making a few videos on Bruno Latour?
I recommend you to read Franz Fanon and the algerian revolution written by Mohamed EL Milli, it gives a different reading of most publications about him that reduce Fanon's thought only to a Marxist leftist approach.
do you have the pdf file for that book by El Milli?
Do you have pdf???
Unfortunately, there aren't french/English translations. It is only available in PDF with it's origins language (Arabic)
What does it say?
Oh how sad is to hear someone speak a sliver of marx with as much accuracy as a bat in a disco
This so called non working people, are quite prejudice as too native peoples living in harmony with nature, and not working in an profiteering industry of which to be taxed. If these wise people know they can’t own that of which is not crafted by themselves, like water, land - doesn’t mean they don’t have their land base, it simply can’t be bought or sold as a private ownership that you can now do whatever you want too. That is classified as being dehumanized as to “unwilling to be enslaved by corporate law extracting as much profits as possible from all and everything.
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if your race or culture is failing, are racism or colonialism a raft?? Thanks As many marginal groups blame outlier groups or reasons for their demise, can Europeans blame the rigors of nature or survival on colinization, or should Europeans blame genetics??
Thank you
Neither our race or culture failed nor is failing, and if you don’t see what europeans did in Africa than you’re just the typical colonizer
@@ademabderrahmane1093thanks for your feedback. Marxist Guilt induced historical revisionism is old hat to me. Appreciate your courage to have dialogue.
@@trainof a hat to you and a six months treatment at a psychiatrist, you have issues that must be deal with.
@@ademabderrahmane1093 I'm unaffected by your wizardry of white guilt. Will continue more when I have more time. I'm at the Luxor in Vegas. Cheers
Do you accept the idea that one is responsible for the behavior of their nation state??
Do you believe in a collective guilt that a race is responsible for??
Neoliberalism preaches about the deity of individualism but wants to enslave men to a particular belief system of guilt. These constructs are polar opposite.
Darwinism is at the heart of Neoliberalism. Darwinism is basically a math equaiton dealing with survival. There is no moral conflict in domination. This is the behavior of the state which is not a racial matter. This is a separate argument. The elites use racial identity to construct greivances between working classes. Blacks have an embedded vulnerabililty dealing with race. This lever can be used to deflate or inflate incidents almost down to Pavlovian level. There is great wealth and importance of using race.
I respect Empiricism. (David Hume). Having order. Post Modern are steadily deconstrunctiong basic form to devalue values brought by the Enlightenment Period.
THanks for the opportunity to talk:
Thank you
To me, the new human idea is so repulsive. Our native cultural being adapts and matures in a genius that colonialism is deathly afraid of. A true spiritual living relationship with life in one’s biosphere as a whole yet definitely in one’s bio region. The Nation of Hawaii had huge pu’uhonua of very fertile land, from the mountain to the sea (island style) totally outside of private taxable property and within kanawai o kāne as aloha ‘Āina law, where the land is the chief and man is the servant therefore perpetual sustainability is the law.
Oh, come on, the Europeans did not invent hierarchy in the Middle East! The Arabs had a Sultan, which means they had an emperor. That’s about as hierarchical as it can get.
He’s saying that they make it more separated than it originally would have been in their society. That was my understanding. I’m still on chapter one though so I don’t know what the book says yet.
@@sunrisewolfy It's hard to imagine a more hierarchical society than the Turkish Ottoman empire, which had multiple classes of slaves, including Eunuchs and Concubines, as well as second class citizens like Jews and Christians.
Franz Fanon is dead. His ideas are dying. Move on.
This book is such a disease
Again, more nonsense. He says that nationalism in Europe came about through exploitation of other parts of the world? Please tell me all of the colonies that Poland and Czechoslovakia had in other parts of the world.
He’s just a nasty resentful anti white communists.
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