I feel like a man without a country. I'm not a Democrat and I'm not a Republican. I just find it so hard to see what's going on in Gaza, and so many Jews and Christians feel helpless. Thank you.
I agree that the term "LEFTIST" has lost all meaning over the past year and a half. I have found it as a Lakota (Native) person to basically mean a yt supremacist who wants to build a 3rd party based on some of their goals regarding communism but also wants to keep the hierarchy of yt supremacy. All Americans besides Native tribes and the descendants of formerly enslaved people have benefitted from the U.S. as a country built on stolen Native land and 500 broken treaties which are guaranteed in the Constitution. Americans whose great, great-grandparents (Gov. Stitt of OK) took part in the Oklahoma Land Run and people like Laura Ingalls Wilder whose parents filed claims for land in South Dakota on stolen Lakota land. They have already participated in communism. LoL The state providing largesse for the proletariat. Poor Europeans were enticed to America by newspaper articles of "Free Land". The U.S. took the land, the goods (crops) and distributed them to the masses initially before switching to capitalism because their goal was to genocide Native tribes and to erase and replace us. They dug up our burial grounds and placed the remains of our ancestors in storage at museums and allowed universities to experiment on those remains as well. Any American leftist or not pretending to have some high moral ground, is kidding themselves about passing some leftist purity test. I'm on X and had a mutual who ranted and raved about being 3rd party and being all in for the little people. One day I commented on her post regarding the evils of capitalism. I said that the early days of raising and trading cattle in the Bronze Age is where the etymology for the word CAPITALISM originated. She freaked out and started saying how terrible Native people are and how we caused numerous Ice Age species to go extinct, all of which has been debunked. Lol She thought I would freak out at her obsolete archaeological data. I just told her that I knew by her attitude that she was a yt supremacist and I unfollowed her. This led to a discussion with other mutuals about the racism that is part of the leftist movement at present. I even know some Native people who are big fans of Marx, a European who impregnated his wife's indentured maid and never claimed the child. That's enough for me to spit on Marxism. Idgaf. Anyway, anarchy is the future. Watching the billionaires in both parties control every election going back to Reagan/Bush because I'm a grandma and I've seen a lot of corruption get accepted and even idealized, I don't think there is any future for my kids and grandkids with the present system which is enabling convicted felons to the White House when most ex-cons aren't allowed to vote. Free Palestine. Let the days of colonialism end.
Leftist around the world outside of America are anti imperialist. Leftist in America are imperialist in sheep's clothing that shove down the throat of countries around the world freedom, democracy and human rights. These words mention above is the reason why the land of the native people's in the America has been colonized. It the reason why many global south country have been colonized. It seems people here and the person in the video doesn't understand the reality of life around the world.
@@TuanTran-h5f It means that it is more satisfying to actually do something that helps people than it is to talk to other leftists about whether it was a worthwhile action. I spend a noticeable amount of time trying to connect with other leftists and it so far hasn't been terribly effective. But when I help someone in my own network or elsewhere in a tangible way I feel great. I feel grounded. I just love that particular sentence they used because it's so succinct.
Just found you recently, happy to see an open anarchist here. Very frustrating to be Iranian and an anarchist and to encounter people who think anti US imperialism means I like what’s happening in Iran. The B&W thinking is so real for people who have been indoctrinated only into western imperialism and come into a reactionary position when they finally learn their system is bad. Congratulations on your book, please write imperialism bad (maybe also authoritarianism bad)
It's not. People were a little disappointed that Sim was praising the current Syrian government even though they have ties to isis and Sim is accusing them of praising Assad. The reality is that communists don't like Assad, but they don't like isis either.
In Greece since autumn 1983 a Sadistic Horrible Crime has been committed against a 17-year-old girl in 1983 and her family (her mother's brother was murdered by the Security Battalions by pulling out his nails and teeth with pliers on 08/08/1944) which was updated in autumn 2005. Do you or the KKE know anything?
@@ju13hpm Sim isn't the only person feeling this way. Don't know where you've been, but the far left in the US and some other Western countries have been rife with Assad apologists (and some outright supporters) for years. They're in our independent media too. There are also a disturbing number of Putin apologists; I've lost a lot of friends over the Russia/Ukraine in the last decade and especially in the past couple years because I value the perspectives of comrades in and around Russia over theirs. Haven't seen many people praising Erdogan tbh, but I wouldn't be surprised at this point.
At At the risk of being a loud communist, I want to push back on the "tankie" bit, because it's often used in a way that lumps all non-anarchists on the left together. The people who try to invite those "Axis of Resistance" types are what principled Marxists refer to as "opportunists" or "adventurist". Opportunism in this case is an alliance between a section of the workers and the bourgeoisie, directed against the mass of the proletariat. A good example of past opportunists was the socialist party in Germany during WWI, who supported the war rather than opposed it. One of the more frustrating parts of "the left" in the US is that 100+ years of Red Scare propaganda and party infiltrations have all but obliterated any real knowledge or willingness to study actual Marxism, which has left us with a lot fewer principled Marxists and a lot more people who are fetishizing Marxism or doing it as a "bit", and their interests are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 aligned with the working class. There are zero reasons for the working class to align with the likes of Erdogan, Assad, and their ilk, and every reason for us to support Palestine.
Love this! I'm so relieved to find people on the left who feel the same way I do. I felt so lonely and depressed after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine because I realized I was in community with some people who not only defended, but actually supported that action. Lots of regurgitation of talking points I recognized from Russian state media, which I used to gobble up when I was an angry, but naïve teenager in the mid-late '00s. The recent history between Russia, Ukraine, and the West is a topic I took the time to educate myself about, prioritizing the perspectives of Ukrainians and Russians with whom I share values, as well as people who are intimately familiar with the region. That put me at such odds with some of the people I followed and interacted with that I became reluctant to spend time in online leftist spaces. In a way it was a good thing because it pushed me to leave that bubble and focus more on connecting with people in my local community and actually DOING things... but it was painful and confusing for a while there. I'm still learning to balance cooperation and compromise with staying true to myself and my beliefs. The past year of getting more involved in Palestine-related activism has given me a lot of practice because it's involved working with people from many different worldviews and ideologies.
The moment you claim to be part of any political group, ideology, etc, everyone in earshot has now determined based on their own preconceptions, both what you think, and what they think about you and now it's your burden to argue against well fortified misconceptions harbored for years if not decades. This isn't a game worth playing in order to find a place to fit in, at least in my personal experience.
Hi 👋 😊 Well , I consider myself a true communist ( or true definition of communist not the fake communism in Russia or China) and an anarchist. I agree 💯 % of what you say. I am also part Jewish German ( Ashken ) and I don’t want to be associated with ziombies . I will have to wait for a copy because of our postal workers are on strike and refuse to use Amazon. Big Angel hugs and blessings to you and yours 🧚
there is only a deranged media/establishment segment in Russia that larps as communists (colloquially called zommunists). on the whole it's madness to call Russia a communist country, especially considering that it was created out of anti-communism (and Putin was one of the people who directly helped that creation).
@@azarahwagner2749 so you're saying that those duplicitous Asians could never do communism right? Is that what you're saying? Congratulations, you invented white supremacy with extra steps
Maraming salamat sa pakikiisa mo sa mga taong nag-aasam ng paglaya sa mga sistemang mapanakop, maging sistema ng mga taong nagsasabing sila' para sa rebolusyon ngunit handang magsakripisyo ng tao o mga taong nagdeklarang para sa demokrasya ngunit sinusupil ang mga boses ng api... Andito na ang taghirap, at matagal nang nandito ang taghirap para sa tulad naming ipit sa Global South, ang taghirap na sinabi ni Le Guin-sensei: "I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being..." "Matatandaan natin ang kalayaan... we will remember freedom." (Sorry for expressing my feels in my mother language, Sim-sensei.. 'just felt more sincere that way!) 🍉🏳⚧ 🖤❤
Frankly I've never heard anyone on the Left praise Assad. Of course, I'm not a "Communist". But I am a Marxist and like you Anarchist. Marxism itself is not a leftwing thing; it's simply a critique of Capitalism that aims to empower the workers and end the crushing Oligarchy.
You haven't heard it because they don't. The reality appears to be that Sim just woke up and decided she wants to be an imperialist. That's what she calls anarchism: donating to CIA front groups like white helmets, al-Nusra, or other Israel-backed and Saudi-backed Sunni supremacist mercenary groups. She probably thinks that war in Ukraine is actually about helping Ukrainians, or that UHURU are Russian agents.
The “communists” you speak of are tankies: “Marxist Leninists.” These are authoritarian state communists, and they have always promoted “anti-imperialism” and “Third Worldism” and never understood working class liberation. Some better thinkers are Loren Goldner, CLR James, Rosa Luxemburg, and the “left communists”: Lenin of State and Revolution, Pannekoek, Goerter, Mattick, Bordiga, etc. There is a communist critique of tankies, from 1917 onward. And of course Guy Debord and Jacques Camatte.
Fun fact, Pannekoek's surname literally translates to the Dutch word for pancake. Also there's a Dutch comedian who shares this surname (Peter Pannekoek) and I'm still not sure if him and Anton are relatives (tried to Google it once)
I had something vaguely similar the other week. I went to a council meeting with some SWP as a Labour councilor was proposing to stop their pension fund investing in Israeli arms suppliers. Which seemed to go well. I and another who was a piano tuner stayed afterwards. Later a Conservative councilor spoke against the "Citizen" social housing landlords plan to raise rents by spitting the rent into two parts, as a way to raise the rent. The actual rent part they legally aren't allowed to raise over a certain amount and the sweeping the stairs and cutting the grass part which has no limitations on how much it can be raised. The councilor had asked for support from Labour councilors for this, but they weren't interested. Surely if they are actually on the left that's the sort of thing they should also support.
this division is the reason why we could never have another red revolution AND also the reason why the whole world is so close to be ruled by actual n*z* emperor.
Yes! Tankies are so much more of a problem than most people on the Left are willing to admit. This comment section is probably going to get brigaded by really loud Tankies. This was all so well-said! Thank you for speaking on this. And what an incredible “thank you” from Palestine! I do find anarchist theory really appealing. I don’t like letting the Tankies just have the Left, though. That tends to go really badly for everyone, historically speaking. Personally, I refuse to accept Tankies as a part of the Left. They are fascists wearing Red, they’re on the Right, even when they don’t realize it themselves. Most people who support fascists have no idea about any type of politics, so you gotta look at what they *do.* Like supporting dictators because they hate the U.S.-that doesn’t make them any less evil.
They are Leftists, they are just authoritarian Leftists because of the means they embrace. There are no "red fascists" because horseshoe theory is not real. That would render every definition of 'fascist' meaningless. There are simply different spectrums on the Left which can never be bridged together. The rhetoric and means auth-Leftists embrace does make it easy for real fascists to pretend to be them if they want, (Like Jackson Hinkle or Nazbols) but it doesn't mean that auth-Leftists are fascists themselves. The "red-brown alliance" pipeline and huge amount of miseducation are definitely a real problem because of this. I hope more State socialists realize the many pitfalls of their ideologies and move towards the libertarian socialist spectrum quickly. But for that we need to help them and others who are becoming radicalized in this moment reach that conclusion. Very important to share and create more of our own educational materials and not just make criticisms of others.
I don't think it helps when anarchists and socdems are unwilling to distinguish between sincere Marxists and Marxist-Leninists, and tankies. In my mind (as an ML), a tankie is someone who simply takes the idealist position that "US bad, therefore enemies of US good" - defending Putin, Erdogan etc. Many MLs seem to have forgotten the doctrines of revolutionary defeatism and national self determination promoted by Lenin and instead chosen to side with Putin on the invasion of Ukraine as somehow an anti-imperialist... invasion? But it's unfortunate in my eyes when non-Marxist leftists don't make the distinction and lump in MLs with these people. Especially when it seems that anarchists often struggle with formulating revolutionary movements without the backing of vanguard parties.
💚🖤 It has always been difficult to deal with the infantilization thrown our way by online authoritarian Leftists, even by the acquaintances who we've only shown respect towards. It's difficult to be called "purely idealist" by the people who merely assert that States will "wither away" when the "good guys" take over and centralize hierarchical power structures "the correct way." I like your analogy. But I don’t like to use the word tankie. I do think it's better to aptly describe them as authoritarian Leftists or state socialists. Left-unity is a fantasy. State socialist strategies and anti-State strategies cannot be synthesized. It's better when people leave that notion behind in favor of properly understanding how power structures function, maintain themselves, and replicate. Prefiguring horizontal societies from the bottom up is the only way to go! 🏳️⚧️🏴🏳️🌈
how does a utopian commune, even a network of such, dissolve the state? This is the fundamental question that remains to be answered. From the perspective of Engels in "socialism utopian and scientific", the answer is that it cannot. The state functions as a vehicle of class oppression, and will act in opposition to any movement, peaceful or not, that threatens its power. See the camp-ins for Palestine, for instance - they were completely peaceful protests, broken up by police violence. This is why we say that the working class must be organised, and the revolution defended with force, if it is to succeed. Compare Allende's Chile to Castro's Cuba: Allende's movement did not build the apparatus for defending the revolution, and was insurrected by the CIA. Castro's movement made connections with the wider revolutionary states, and engaged in "authoritarianism" (self-defense), and survived. Is this ideal? No, of course we would rather not have to engage in such tactics. But we do not live in an ideal world.
Maybe your list of followers/subscribers will shrink after this, but - as you already knew - the ones that will stay and the ones you've won over (like myself) - even if it's a few - are worth a thousand of those who'll leave, because we are the ones who don't blindly follow our cirlcle of buddies, but the truth ✊🏻
Yes we have to unite and strengthen against the fascists in this world. Ya Rabb (SWT) help us. Strengthen our Ummah. Let us be of help and protection to one another. Amin.
If you also want to be an ecological minded, anarchistic, democratic, leftist, who is anti-Fascist, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, and holds true to the ideals of the Enlightenment, then consider Social Ecology. Please support the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) as they will have a real fight on their hands dealing with HTS when attention is turned towards that region
@@acircleproductions8495 the word tankie is just the lib version of woke, you use it as a thought terminating epithet for yourself and a cudgel to attack anyone to your left
So my understanding is you have heard too much defense for Assad? I can get that. Assad was a force that could counter Israel but doesn’t mean they are good force or should be defended. I feel you can understand a power can keep another in check but it doesn’t mean they are good. Not sure if it fair to put this all on leftist, leftwing myself and not a fan of Assad but I can get why you raising it
assad wasn't even a counter to israel, he was just the guy doing his own horrible canvas in his own corner, meaning that not many, including the palestinians, weep from his lost
@ think you misunderstood my usage and others, it not that he physically helps it’s that he doesn’t block land movement of supplies for Hamas from Iran etc.
Are these the accelerationists who think Trump making things as bad as possible is a "good thing " because destroying the system (at whatever cost) will make life SO BAD for EVERYONE that we HAVE to start over with a new system?
We do. They don't have any power, but they're loud and take up a lot of room in leftist spaces. I don't think the problem is quite as bad IRL as it seems to be online, but it's worth discussing.
I don’t think you can truly be Left while upholding the apartheid. The people I encounter (who are otherwise progressive on every other issue) are for the most part progressive Libs. Anyone who claims to be Left while being Pro-Euro Disney is like a person wearing an “I’m a Vegetarian” t-shirt while eating a McRib sandwich.
I like anarcho-communists (but I like anarcho-syndicalists better!), and I hate tankies. I have no idea how they call themselves "left wing" when they love any right-wing commercial, imperial, or religious interest as long as that interest is slightly less than 100% pro USA.
"I will now choose a prettier label for myself" I mean the self exoneration from actual accomplishment and civilizational impact keeps on as the constant that it always was. "I'm not here to do, I'm here to judge". ☕.
I feel like a man without a country. I'm not a Democrat and I'm not a Republican. I just find it so hard to see what's going on in Gaza, and so many Jews and Christians feel helpless. Thank you.
I agree that the term "LEFTIST" has lost all meaning over the past year and a half. I have found it as a Lakota (Native) person to basically mean a yt supremacist who wants to build a 3rd party based on some of their goals regarding communism but also wants to keep the hierarchy of yt supremacy. All Americans besides Native tribes and the descendants of formerly enslaved people have benefitted from the U.S. as a country built on stolen Native land and 500 broken treaties which are guaranteed in the Constitution. Americans whose great, great-grandparents (Gov. Stitt of OK) took part in the Oklahoma Land Run and people like Laura Ingalls Wilder whose parents filed claims for land in South Dakota on stolen Lakota land. They have already participated in communism. LoL The state providing largesse for the proletariat. Poor Europeans were enticed to America by newspaper articles of "Free Land". The U.S. took the land, the goods (crops) and distributed them to the masses initially before switching to capitalism because their goal was to genocide Native tribes and to erase and replace us. They dug up our burial grounds and placed the remains of our ancestors in storage at museums and allowed universities to experiment on those remains as well. Any American leftist or not pretending to have some high moral ground, is kidding themselves about passing some leftist purity test. I'm on X and had a mutual who ranted and raved about being 3rd party and being all in for the little people. One day I commented on her post regarding the evils of capitalism. I said that the early days of raising and trading cattle in the Bronze Age is where the etymology for the word CAPITALISM originated. She freaked out and started saying how terrible Native people are and how we caused numerous Ice Age species to go extinct, all of which has been debunked. Lol She thought I would freak out at her obsolete archaeological data. I just told her that I knew by her attitude that she was a yt supremacist and I unfollowed her. This led to a discussion with other mutuals about the racism that is part of the leftist movement at present. I even know some Native people who are big fans of Marx, a European who impregnated his wife's indentured maid and never claimed the child. That's enough for me to spit on Marxism. Idgaf. Anyway, anarchy is the future. Watching the billionaires in both parties control every election going back to Reagan/Bush because I'm a grandma and I've seen a lot of corruption get accepted and even idealized, I don't think there is any future for my kids and grandkids with the present system which is enabling convicted felons to the White House when most ex-cons aren't allowed to vote. Free Palestine. Let the days of colonialism end.
Leftist around the world outside of America are anti imperialist. Leftist in America are imperialist in sheep's clothing that shove down the throat of countries around the world freedom, democracy and human rights. These words mention above is the reason why the land of the native people's in the America has been colonized. It the reason why many global south country have been colonized. It seems people here and the person in the video doesn't understand the reality of life around the world.
"Direct aid is how anarchists stay grounded."
Wow. Yeah.
What does that even mean?
@@TuanTran-h5f It means that it is more satisfying to actually do something that helps people than it is to talk to other leftists about whether it was a worthwhile action.
I spend a noticeable amount of time trying to connect with other leftists and it so far hasn't been terribly effective.
But when I help someone in my own network or elsewhere in a tangible way I feel great. I feel grounded.
I just love that particular sentence they used because it's so succinct.
Just found you recently, happy to see an open anarchist here. Very frustrating to be Iranian and an anarchist and to encounter people who think anti US imperialism means I like what’s happening in Iran. The B&W thinking is so real for people who have been indoctrinated only into western imperialism and come into a reactionary position when they finally learn their system is bad. Congratulations on your book, please write imperialism bad (maybe also authoritarianism bad)
I am from Greece and haven't heard any communist praising Putin, Erdogan or Assad, don't know tf is happening in America.
It's not. People were a little disappointed that Sim was praising the current Syrian government even though they have ties to isis and Sim is accusing them of praising Assad. The reality is that communists don't like Assad, but they don't like isis either.
In Greece since autumn 1983 a Sadistic Horrible Crime has been committed against a 17-year-old girl in 1983 and her family (her mother's brother was murdered by the Security Battalions by pulling out his nails and teeth with pliers on 08/08/1944) which was updated in autumn 2005. Do you or the KKE know anything?
@@ju13hpm hold up, which Syrian government? Are we forgetting the Kurdish one?
@@ju13hpm Sim isn't the only person feeling this way. Don't know where you've been, but the far left in the US and some other Western countries have been rife with Assad apologists (and some outright supporters) for years. They're in our independent media too. There are also a disturbing number of Putin apologists; I've lost a lot of friends over the Russia/Ukraine in the last decade and especially in the past couple years because I value the perspectives of comrades in and around Russia over theirs. Haven't seen many people praising Erdogan tbh, but I wouldn't be surprised at this point.
@@macp6033 why would this person know anything about this they could've been born in 2004 for all we know
Oh thank goodness! I was very worried you're gonna come out as a liberal, the way i sighed when you instantly follow up with anarchist
@@aeoligarlic4024 she may as well have, she used all the classic lib talking points
she literally does sound like a typical lib.
Okay but why do I now have to wait for the book I preordered? I want to read and share it so freaking badly
I decided to get two more so I have lots to lend out!
We bought 10 so we could stuff the local little free library.
At At the risk of being a loud communist, I want to push back on the "tankie" bit, because it's often used in a way that lumps all non-anarchists on the left together. The people who try to invite those "Axis of Resistance" types are what principled Marxists refer to as "opportunists" or "adventurist". Opportunism in this case is an alliance between a section of the workers and the bourgeoisie, directed against the mass of the proletariat. A good example of past opportunists was the socialist party in Germany during WWI, who supported the war rather than opposed it. One of the more frustrating parts of "the left" in the US is that 100+ years of Red Scare propaganda and party infiltrations have all but obliterated any real knowledge or willingness to study actual Marxism, which has left us with a lot fewer principled Marxists and a lot more people who are fetishizing Marxism or doing it as a "bit", and their interests are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 aligned with the working class. There are zero reasons for the working class to align with the likes of Erdogan, Assad, and their ilk, and every reason for us to support Palestine.
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I am from Quebec CANADA and you are such an inspiring person thank you I will be looking to buy your book Genocide bad ❤❤
Love this! I'm so relieved to find people on the left who feel the same way I do. I felt so lonely and depressed after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine because I realized I was in community with some people who not only defended, but actually supported that action. Lots of regurgitation of talking points I recognized from Russian state media, which I used to gobble up when I was an angry, but naïve teenager in the mid-late '00s. The recent history between Russia, Ukraine, and the West is a topic I took the time to educate myself about, prioritizing the perspectives of Ukrainians and Russians with whom I share values, as well as people who are intimately familiar with the region. That put me at such odds with some of the people I followed and interacted with that I became reluctant to spend time in online leftist spaces.
In a way it was a good thing because it pushed me to leave that bubble and focus more on connecting with people in my local community and actually DOING things... but it was painful and confusing for a while there. I'm still learning to balance cooperation and compromise with staying true to myself and my beliefs. The past year of getting more involved in Palestine-related activism has given me a lot of practice because it's involved working with people from many different worldviews and ideologies.
Idk where you get that the Left was ok with Russia invading UK. THAT IS NOT A THING. Thats the Right hun, don't get it twisted
I like your passion, sincerity and analytic work.
I agree. I like also her true humanism. (as well as her knowledge.) I wish people like her would start multiplying.
The moment you claim to be part of any political group, ideology, etc, everyone in earshot has now determined based on their own preconceptions, both what you think, and what they think about you and now it's your burden to argue against well fortified misconceptions harbored for years if not decades. This isn't a game worth playing in order to find a place to fit in, at least in my personal experience.
Hi 👋 😊
Well , I consider myself a true communist ( or true definition of communist not the fake communism in Russia or China) and an anarchist.
I agree 💯 % of what you say. I am also part Jewish German ( Ashken ) and I don’t want to be associated with ziombies .
I will have to wait for a copy because of our postal workers are on strike and refuse to use Amazon.
Big Angel hugs and blessings to you and yours 🧚
"not the fake communism" habibi it's the kind that was actually tried you can't pretend it didn't happen
@@xunqianbaidu6917surely that was more like state capitalism.
there is only a deranged media/establishment segment in Russia that larps as communists (colloquially called zommunists).
on the whole it's madness to call Russia a communist country, especially considering that it was created out of anti-communism (and Putin was one of the people who directly helped that creation).
CUPW ftw! Also, you can place a pre-order now. It'll be delivered in March. CUPW would have won by then.
@@azarahwagner2749 so you're saying that those duplicitous Asians could never do communism right? Is that what you're saying?
Congratulations, you invented white supremacy with extra steps
Maraming salamat sa pakikiisa mo sa mga taong nag-aasam ng paglaya sa mga sistemang mapanakop, maging sistema ng mga taong nagsasabing sila' para sa rebolusyon ngunit handang magsakripisyo ng tao o mga taong nagdeklarang para sa demokrasya ngunit sinusupil ang mga boses ng api...
Andito na ang taghirap, at matagal nang nandito ang taghirap para sa tulad naming ipit sa Global South, ang taghirap na sinabi ni Le Guin-sensei: "I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being..."
"Matatandaan natin ang kalayaan... we will remember freedom."
(Sorry for expressing my feels in my mother language, Sim-sensei.. 'just felt more sincere that way!)
🍉🏳⚧ 🖤❤
Who are the other SF writers worth reading besides Butler and Leguin?
President JFK,jr.: “… we do it not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.”
I love you, Sim. Very, very, very much. 🫶🏽
Frankly I've never heard anyone on the Left praise Assad. Of course, I'm not a "Communist". But I am a Marxist and like you Anarchist. Marxism itself is not a leftwing thing; it's simply a critique of Capitalism that aims to empower the workers and end the crushing Oligarchy.
You haven't heard it because they don't. The reality appears to be that Sim just woke up and decided she wants to be an imperialist. That's what she calls anarchism: donating to CIA front groups like white helmets, al-Nusra, or other Israel-backed and Saudi-backed Sunni supremacist mercenary groups. She probably thinks that war in Ukraine is actually about helping Ukrainians, or that UHURU are Russian agents.
Then you have lived in a cave these last days...
I have pretty good wifi in my cave and I've never heard it either.
@@JustinTheGreysomething still must be wrong with your cave, if you haven't noticed the disgusting trend Sim's talking about
The “communists” you speak of are tankies: “Marxist Leninists.” These are authoritarian state communists, and they have always promoted “anti-imperialism” and “Third Worldism” and never understood working class liberation. Some better thinkers are Loren Goldner, CLR James, Rosa Luxemburg, and the “left communists”: Lenin of State and Revolution, Pannekoek, Goerter, Mattick, Bordiga, etc. There is a communist critique of tankies, from 1917 onward. And of course Guy Debord and Jacques Camatte.
Fun fact, Pannekoek's surname literally translates to the Dutch word for pancake. Also there's a Dutch comedian who shares this surname (Peter Pannekoek) and I'm still not sure if him and Anton are relatives (tried to Google it once)
yooo octavia butler shout out. honestly, this was an apprehensive click, but i'm glad i did.
Exceptionally well roared, lion 👏🏻
I had something vaguely similar the other week. I went to a council meeting with some SWP as a Labour councilor was proposing to stop their pension fund investing in Israeli arms suppliers. Which seemed to go well. I and another who was a piano tuner stayed afterwards. Later a Conservative councilor spoke against the "Citizen" social housing landlords plan to raise rents by spitting the rent into two parts, as a way to raise the rent. The actual rent part they legally aren't allowed to raise over a certain amount and the sweeping the stairs and cutting the grass part which has no limitations on how much it can be raised. The councilor had asked for support from Labour councilors for this, but they weren't interested. Surely if they are actually on the left that's the sort of thing they should also support.
As a Star Trek space communist, I love my leftist anarchist friends ❤ and I’d rather go with you to Denny’s than hang out with the tankies 🤢
Yeah I am one of those too. IDIC!!
@ live long, and prosper 🖖
this division is the reason why we could never have another red revolution AND also the reason why the whole world is so close to be ruled by actual n*z* emperor.
Since Yesterday rhe 3rd video I have seen of You. Will look for more Thank You.
Yes! Tankies are so much more of a problem than most people on the Left are willing to admit. This comment section is probably going to get brigaded by really loud Tankies.
This was all so well-said! Thank you for speaking on this. And what an incredible “thank you” from Palestine!
I do find anarchist theory really appealing. I don’t like letting the Tankies just have the Left, though. That tends to go really badly for everyone, historically speaking. Personally, I refuse to accept Tankies as a part of the Left. They are fascists wearing Red, they’re on the Right, even when they don’t realize it themselves. Most people who support fascists have no idea about any type of politics, so you gotta look at what they *do.* Like supporting dictators because they hate the U.S.-that doesn’t make them any less evil.
They are Leftists, they are just authoritarian Leftists because of the means they embrace.
There are no "red fascists" because horseshoe theory is not real. That would render every definition of 'fascist' meaningless.
There are simply different spectrums on the Left which can never be bridged together.
The rhetoric and means auth-Leftists embrace does make it easy for real fascists to pretend to be them if they want,
(Like Jackson Hinkle or Nazbols)
but it doesn't mean that auth-Leftists are fascists themselves.
The "red-brown alliance" pipeline and huge amount of miseducation are definitely a real problem because of this.
I hope more State socialists realize the many pitfalls of their ideologies and move towards the libertarian socialist spectrum quickly.
But for that we need to help them and others who are becoming radicalized in this moment reach that conclusion.
Very important to share and create more of our own educational materials and not just make criticisms of others.
I don't think it helps when anarchists and socdems are unwilling to distinguish between sincere Marxists and Marxist-Leninists, and tankies. In my mind (as an ML), a tankie is someone who simply takes the idealist position that "US bad, therefore enemies of US good" - defending Putin, Erdogan etc. Many MLs seem to have forgotten the doctrines of revolutionary defeatism and national self determination promoted by Lenin and instead chosen to side with Putin on the invasion of Ukraine as somehow an anti-imperialist... invasion? But it's unfortunate in my eyes when non-Marxist leftists don't make the distinction and lump in MLs with these people. Especially when it seems that anarchists often struggle with formulating revolutionary movements without the backing of vanguard parties.
Drum circles >>> frat parties
That was amazing 🖤💛💚❤️
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It has always been difficult to deal with the infantilization thrown our way by online authoritarian Leftists, even by the acquaintances who we've only shown respect towards.
It's difficult to be called "purely idealist" by the people who merely assert that States will "wither away" when the "good guys" take over and centralize hierarchical power structures "the correct way."
I like your analogy. But I don’t like to use the word tankie. I do think it's better to aptly describe them as authoritarian Leftists or state socialists.
Left-unity is a fantasy. State socialist strategies and anti-State strategies cannot be synthesized.
It's better when people leave that notion behind in favor of properly understanding how power structures function, maintain themselves, and replicate.
Prefiguring horizontal societies from the bottom up is the only way to go! 🏳️⚧️🏴🏳️🌈
And that thank you message from Gaza is one of the most beautiful things I've seen all year, maybe in my life.
Thanks for sharing it here!
how does a utopian commune, even a network of such, dissolve the state? This is the fundamental question that remains to be answered. From the perspective of Engels in "socialism utopian and scientific", the answer is that it cannot. The state functions as a vehicle of class oppression, and will act in opposition to any movement, peaceful or not, that threatens its power. See the camp-ins for Palestine, for instance - they were completely peaceful protests, broken up by police violence. This is why we say that the working class must be organised, and the revolution defended with force, if it is to succeed. Compare Allende's Chile to Castro's Cuba: Allende's movement did not build the apparatus for defending the revolution, and was insurrected by the CIA. Castro's movement made connections with the wider revolutionary states, and engaged in "authoritarianism" (self-defense), and survived. Is this ideal? No, of course we would rather not have to engage in such tactics. But we do not live in an ideal world.
Maybe your list of followers/subscribers will shrink after this, but - as you already knew - the ones that will stay and the ones you've won over (like myself) - even if it's a few - are worth a thousand of those who'll leave, because we are the ones who don't blindly follow our cirlcle of buddies, but the truth ✊🏻
Just subbed.
Yes we have to unite and strengthen against the fascists in this world.
Ya Rabb (SWT) help us. Strengthen our Ummah. Let us be of help and protection to one another. Amin.
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Fuck yes! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Welcome to the party! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love your integrity!
Truth to power!!
So refreshing to hear basic logic and moral common sense. Tankies gonna tank.
@@acircleproductions8495 the word tankie is just the lib version of woke, you use it as a thought terminating epithet for yourself and a cudgel to attack anyone to your left
Could not have said it better myself. People assume too much about me if I use the wrong labels.
So my understanding is you have heard too much defense for Assad? I can get that. Assad was a force that could counter Israel but doesn’t mean they are good force or should be defended. I feel you can understand a power can keep another in check but it doesn’t mean they are good.
Not sure if it fair to put this all on leftist, leftwing myself and not a fan of Assad but I can get why you raising it
assad wasn't even a counter to israel, he was just the guy doing his own horrible canvas in his own corner, meaning that not many, including the palestinians, weep from his lost
@ think you misunderstood my usage and others, it not that he physically helps it’s that he doesn’t block land movement of supplies for Hamas from Iran etc.
@@minestar2247 so are the new guys a counter to iSSrael?
@@PhalisoBringerOfDoom so far, NO
@@PhalisoBringerOfDoom if it’s ISIS or D@esh, absolutely not. They have worked with iSSrael.
Octavia!!!!!! Yesssss!!!!!!!
Centrist is the new Liberal.
Free Palestine ♥️
But yes. Assad is a monster.
I love me a good rant, well thought. Honestly, the cravenness of the left these days is mind boggling.
Are these the accelerationists who think Trump making things as bad as possible is a "good thing " because destroying the system (at whatever cost) will make life SO BAD for EVERYONE that we HAVE to start over with a new system?
Stand up and stand together ❤️ 🙏
I think you need some clarity on "The Resistance" though. We'll get there.
what is this ' ' communists ' story ?? do we have communists in USA ?
We do. They don't have any power, but they're loud and take up a lot of room in leftist spaces. I don't think the problem is quite as bad IRL as it seems to be online, but it's worth discussing.
I don’t think you can truly be Left while upholding the apartheid. The people I encounter (who are otherwise progressive on every other issue) are for the most part progressive Libs. Anyone who claims to be Left while being Pro-Euro Disney is like a person wearing an “I’m a Vegetarian” t-shirt while eating a McRib sandwich.
I’ve been noodling a whole “why I left the left” video where I explain actually I am now much more radical than the left.
Left is a very broad umbrella term. It's lack of specificity unfortunately allows the right to use it against anyone on The Left.
😂 That moment when you're thankful for being normal
I like anarcho-communists (but I like anarcho-syndicalists better!), and I hate tankies. I have no idea how they call themselves "left wing" when they love any right-wing commercial, imperial, or religious interest as long as that interest is slightly less than 100% pro USA.
"I will now choose a prettier label for myself" I mean the self exoneration from actual accomplishment and civilizational impact keeps on as the constant that it always was. "I'm not here to do, I'm here to judge". ☕.
That criticism rings hollow on a channel like this one.
@jfm14 perhaps, if you equal engaging in political activism in already democratic countries with having a course-altering impact on civilization
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Don't stop talking about Palestine
@@LPRH246 never
I refer to myself as a progressive at this point
lol sounds like people are only hanging out with yt leftists tbh.
And terminally online ones too
Sounds good, we can be friends until the revolution. Then things get difficult
you're making it all about yourself
Comrade. 🥰