The Case Against Hierarchy (2018)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2018
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A few years ago I made a series of videos outlining what were the beginnings of my anarchist politics. Having spent more time in the movement, I thought it would be a good idea to make an updated version of the series with more refined arguments. If you're interested in seeing the older version, you can watch that here (though I don't think it's very good):
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Sections:
Capitalism 1:14
The state 6:00
White supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy and ableism 9:46
I laugh every time you say swagmaster's name
Best part of the video by far
When's the big Seltzer sellout video coming?
Ahem... I mean
Are you still going to be making the big seltzer sellout video after this one?
Nah, Google hushabye valley or I'll give you a swirly is the funniest one. xD
Libertarian Socialist Rants could you do a video symilar to that of "top usa led authoritarian regimes" , but being about the unjust wars (both direct wars like that of philipines by william mckinley and proxy wars like ther afghan-soviet war ) the usa got involved? the name of the video could be "top american-led wars" or something like that. you could also do a video about the worst usa allies.
A great quote comes to mind, from Steven Jay Gould:
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Who even knows how many people with potential for greatness have never, currently aren't and/or will never live up to their potential because they have to toil away in a factory or on a farm in order not to starve? Millions? Billions? It's staggering, and it's unacceptable.
Top ten anime remakes
Lib-Soc Rants/Contrapoints crossover?
I doubt she knows who I am. Lol
Maybe listen to the Polite Conversations Podcast with H.Bomb and Contra if you haven't already. I think the first ten minutes might prove you wrong. Though she might've forgotten.
Everyone knows who you are :3
@@StarCheat I checked it out and that was really nice to hear.
Love you and everything you do. Your videos got me back into Anarchist/anti-fascist politics after a few apathetic years. Re-expanding my library and taking part in some actions again (like I did back in the days of the Stephen Lawrence verdict and my days with Anti-Fascist Action, way back in the mid-nineties (!))...thanks so much for re-igniting the flame in this old lefty, Cameron!
I actually converted my "Anarchist" (he was only anarchist in the sense that he hated government) friend to an ancom with these videos today. Thank you so much for all the hard you put in this video! ❤❤❤
Don't ever stop what you're doing. You changed me from naive liberal to socialist. We all must live peacefully without money or restrictions. We must help one another not because it may profit us, but because it is common sense to.
Chrissy Weaver You are so brainwashed😂
Gilly Puente I'm sorry you feel that way.
When people refer to phrases like "we must help one another" as "brainwashing", I do start to wonder if total annihilation of the human race would really be a bad thing. Maybe the Dolphins could do a better job.
Psilent Music UK Haha!
Will I live to actually see an anarchist society? Im so ready for it
One thing is bothering me is burnout and exhaustion. I know for a fact we can't go on like this as a species but I'm just so tired and jaded all the time
'Revolutionary' suicide? Who's that going to help? It would just make lots of people miserable.
Praise The Masculine Flames okay then
Hunter gatherers are inherently egalitarian, therefore the ancestral and natural form of humanity is egalitarian. You're talking shite Praise The Incel Embers...
Try and find something that is directly empowering for you and bypasses the existing system Sam. For me that was learning how to grow some of my own food I found that there's plenty of unattended land out there ripe for guerrilla gardening.
> _You're exhausted because you're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Human beings are naturally hierarchical._
This is why you can cite science articles that find a strong correlation between human happiness and hierarchy within a given society, right? It's not as if jobs make people exhausted and miserable or anything - the more someone bosses you around, the happier you are, that's just human nature.
Excellent video.
Agreed.
Hey its Garret! I forgot about you, am currently viewing your video on Marvel cinematic universe
Hope you get better!
Ayyy, thus is the type of re-makes that I like
It's hard to say what will happen to our species and mother earth, but what is certain is that we're heading into a global catastrophy if we don't change our way of life.
The master is at it again!
Please don't call me that. Lol
Our equal but also great comrade, Cam. How about that? lol
appreciated
Strigoi_Morty “Our equal” but is also great which means better than average at least....so not equal? Lol. Equality is a religion and a lie.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November. Either watch it on the news, or come aid us if you can. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Your videos have always contained a huge amount of effort, been massively entertaining, and informative. I'm glad to see your channel continuing into 2018.
I just want to compliment you on the poignantly atmospheric Nine Inch Nails track you selected as background music for the conclusion of the video. Lovely taste. Excellent video as well.
Wow this was an excellent video. I'm really excited to have this as a resource I can share with people that aren't yet knowledgeable about the evils of capitalism and social/ state/ economic hierarchies in general. Thank you for making it and citing important works for those who want to dig a little deeper!
i’m only a junior in high school, but i just want to say that your videos have completely changed my world. a discussion about the future of jobs in my AP seminar class led to me questioning why we have to work to live, and why our entire purpose in life is to make a profit. i also noticed that the sources we were reading all had a positive view of this endless cycle of labor, and neither my teacher or peers seemed to be able to answer my questions of “why do we still have to live in this system?” i turned to the internet, and stumbled on your channel through a youtube miss-click; that was the best mistake i ever made. your content gave me academic language for the questions i was asking, and articulated the innate flaws i saw in the capitalist system. i’d previously considered myself a liberal democrat, thanks to my very left leaning mother, but now i see that anarchist-communism/socialism is the only way to have a truly equal society that benefits more than just the rich and powerful. i hope to someday join a revolutionary organization and help to take down the capitalist hierarchy that’s destroyed our planet, so thank you comrade!
Welcome to a world of visionaries Jay! One feels good knowing that there is another comrade in the movement.
I started asking myself the same questions: "Why does a person with money consider himself superior to me?" or "Do we really need the money for our survival?" they were dilemmas that nobody seemed to want to debate, except my friends, which, incredible as it may seem, are mostly Marxists.
I don't know what the situation is like in your local area, how's the direct action like antifa organized like, or the existence of a Black Bloc. However, personally I have to tell you that please, do not go to direct action without informing about everything extremely well, I recommend reading the Black Bloc manual, tear gas treatment, and I highly recommend starting practising cardio. I know that the idea of a social revolution is beautiful, but speaking with other anarchists I have managed to understand what our comrades also wait from us -the young visionaries-, is to educate society, and by this I mean joining some kind of (anarchist) social center or activities to help your community and make people see that we aren't savages who run around the streets smashing things for simple fun. But, we are people who rely on solidarity, trust, mutual support and fight against an illogical system.
To end with this comment; I am going to give you a series of matter I consider important:
neighborhoodanarchists.org/security-culture/
es.crimethinc.com/
theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
I love that you mentioned Autism Speaks. I had forgotten about them, but many years ago, when I got my late-in-life diagnosis, I went around researching a bit. As a surprise to nobody I wasn't really interested in joining some community or anything, although I did seek out a chatroom or two, but discovering Autism Speaks really jolted me. I had never thought of myself as much worse than... eccentric, weird, unusual, I had my bouts of depression - but who hasn't, I had frictions with family - but who hasn't. A lot of these problems became... almost solved, through the diagnosis, I was much more aware of my behavior, how I related to others, so - a lot of my quirks and eccentricities, the good and the bad, I associated them with my condition. Then seeing my diagnosis, my condition, described with those terms that Autism Speaks does, in particular in a few absolutely horrible ads - ADS - where they had parents explaining what absolute hell their lives were (their lives!) having to deal with an unruly autistic child, a non-normal child, some of these ads had parents relating their quaint little dreams, with tears in their eyes, that their children would never grow up to be perfectly preppy normal, that they were now weird quirky freaks with silly personalities, one of the ads had parents talking about wanting to commit full blown murder-suicide o_o
And they are the biggest autism awareness organization in the world, to my knowledge! People donate tons to them, and people really buy into their rethoric of "curing" autists - in particular for the benefit of their distraught parents! Those poor parents who wanted someone ordinary, with ordinary behaviors and ordinary thoughts, jesus christ... through my whole undiagnosed life, through all my frictions with friends and family, I never once felt *unapreciated* for who I was! My mother, my father, we had our issues, but they always knew who I was, they always supported me in being me, in being weird and quirky and having my narrow interests (DINOSAURS! And a lot more, especially over the years, accumulating shit :D)
Ugh...
Anyway, just wanted to plaster a little rant of my own, I'm gonna unpause now and finish your video! :V
If I had money, I'd give a bunch to you, for the purpose of more effectively disseminating this message. Thanks for all that you do, from Portland, Oregon.
Your videos were instrumental in changing my worldview from supporting social democracy to supporting libertarian socialism and anarchism. Thank you so much for spreading the good gospel. 🍞🍞
It's a great video, and I think you made a lot of great points, but I just have to point out that I love it that you utilized Nine Inch Nails at the end of the video. "A Warm Place," despite its simplicity, is probably one of my favorite NIN songs when I'm in a somber or thoughtful mood, and since depression is a common recurrence in my life and philosophy is my primary hobby, somber and thoughtful are eternally present. Anyway, looking forward to your next video. Thanks :)
_Spread the bread, comrade!_
Another fantastic video. Believe it or not I started out right wing. Just didn't know any better. Blamed immigration on the countries (England) problems. Hating this and that. However, after a lot of learning, studying and videos like yours I became a Liberal first then finally a Socialist. Have been at peace with myself since. So I just wanted to say thank you again. Your work is inspiring.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is the best channel on UA-cam. Don't forget to share these vids with solidarity and mutual aid comrades.
This was the series of the videos that introduced me to anarchism and made me an anarchist. Great to see an updated version.
Good to see you're still making vids man! I got on the channel by watching a bunch of your old ones, and was wondering if you made new content. Thanks for making these videos! They've really Yelp me open my perspective!
Thank you for this well-researched, well-edited video. I got a little teary-eyed at the end to be honest.
Thank you for this video.
I'm a 23 yr old in California who works full time as a handyman. I'm trying to educate myself in "my free time" as I work long days and don't always have time to read. These videos make it possible for me to learn a lot in a period of time that I currently have to myself.
Cameron, you are great! Love your videos and am glad you're back at it!
This is such a good video.
Could you make a vid about Jordan Peterson's cult like followers and his subtly put pseudo-intellectualist jargon?
Like grow up and take responsibility for your life...dam thats some pseudo-intellectual drivel....
An absolutely amazing video! Thank you for your clarity and smoothness.
The old cartoons that you use in your videos are beautiful! I love watching them! Keep up the good work! 🏴
They're actually old anti-communist propaganda
Damn, another banger. Thanks dude.
Brilliant arrangement Cameron. This social and political composition is as thoughtful and beautiful a body of work as is the sum of musical aspects comprising a compellingly triumphant, yet hauntingly desperate, orchestral movement.
A genuinely moving presentation sir. Always look forward to your work and will do what I can to direct viewers to your channel. Please consider advertising a general mailbox and/or managing a mail list, through which your subscribers might be able to receive news in the event that GOOGLE determines your work to offend requirements for advertiser friendly content. Good luck with the rent.
Awesome. Glad you're back making videos.
Hey, yeah I make my own soviet themed death metal songs. And I also do covers of old soviet and socialist songs in general. From songs like Katyusha to the Internationale, and everything in between. Although the covers tend to be more melodic metal rather than death metal.
Well I started out playing punk in a local punk band. Mostly covers of Misfits songs and things like that. Then started getting into more hardcore punk like the exploited. But my main influence is classic metal bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc...And old school death metal bands like Death, Obituary, Bloodbath and bands like that. Feel free to check out my channel and songs.
Love how u put theory books in videos very much appreciated
Educate, Organize, Unionize! Abolish all unnecessary hierarchy!
Excellent analysis. Howdy from Texas. (That's Texican for "cheers mate")
This is a lot better than your last one. Good job.
i c u
Fuck! I wish I'd had this video for the last 40 years, to play once a year just to remind me why I'm an anarchist. It's hard to stay motivated when the world seems to keep urging us to just fall asleep.
Fantastic work! Very well done.
Just found this channel I’m loving it
Fantastic vid, so well done.
We the people are so innocent, you’re right
Your stuff made me an anarchist. Thank you
Ha, jokes on you, I'm already subscribed to those people!
Keep up the good work, comrade.
The personal problem is that I care, but I'm too vulnerable when it comes to mental health to stay regularly focused on the topic of the state of the world we live in. It already stresses me out enough regardless. Maybe I just need the right outlet that will feel empowering rather than absolutely draining and depressing
Dude we need you now more than ever!!!!11
Excellent video, thank you.
Excellent stuff. thank you!
You do great work, thank you
What an excellent video!! The concept of libertarian socialism seemed contradictory to me so I clicked your video wondering what to expect. I'm so pleasantly surprised and have subscribed to your channel now. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
Great stuff, my first time here. Subscribed.
Love this video! Well done!
This is an excellent video! I hate to say it but good production quality matters more than the ideas - hence why channels like PragerU are successful. The left needs more videos like these!
I appreciate your positive feedback but I wouldn't go as far as to say 'more than the ideas'.
Would it be bad if my one big take away from this video is "holy shit, Charlie Chaplin in HD that's pretty nuts!"
It's also thanks to you that I threw out all of the preconceived notions about communism, and even social democracy, that I previously had, and learnt about the truest of communism, Anarchist communism. And became an Anarchist myself. And joined AFed and the IWW. It's thanks to you LSR that I'm no longer a "free thinking skeptic" who thought he transcended the political spectrum... I was wrong, and you taught me that I was wrong. And put me straight and onto the right path. Thank you man!
Anarchist anti-tankie memes are the best anti-tankie memes
Thank you. Great video
one hell of a manifesto at the end
My Maoist comrades even love your videos. You are creating real left unity which is so fuckin awesome
u just cracked my world. thank u.
Truly a great video.
Matrix's music is the one for that video!
Thanks for the video!
This video made me shed a tear thank you comrade
First lobster
Can't wait for the next video!!
@Libertarian Socialist Rants Please consider posting a transcript of your presentation. I was illuminated by the entire content, but particularly inspired by the "What justification..." crescendo.
Irish-Iberian - and proud of it.
Cam, you still got it!
Solidarity Comrade! ❤✌
I know you guys are anarchists but ima say this anyway because I think it's relevant to this video regarding saving our planet from man-made disaster. Communist Cuba is ranked #1 globally in sustainable development. Regards from your friendly neighborhood tank.
Yeah but Cuba is an oppressive dictatorship
mugiwaraboshi37 It wasn't an argument against anarchism, I'm supporting the claim that socialism is a more sustainable model than capitalism
Kevin Sj no
bulletfreak
"Do they have worker ownership over the means of production?". Yes they do, around 1/3 of Cubans work in co-ops or self-employment. The rest of the economy is owned and controlled by the state, which in turn is controlled by the workers.
Side note: worker control is not the sole prerequesite for socialism and you anarchists need to stop pretending it is, I was tryna preach a bit of left unity and you ruined it. This dogmatism from anarchists is the reason why Lenin had them shot.
mugiwaraboshi37
Never said that all anarchists deserve to die, Lenin himself actually worked with certain groups of anarchists in the Civil War and beyond, and I'm more than willing to work with some anarchists. What I meant is that the dogmatism displayed by bulletfreak and KevinSj is what got select groups of anarchists and leftcoms arrested in the USSR. You said that you support nations struggling against imperialism, and you didn't attack my beliefs in any way, therefore I respect you and wish no harm on you, comrade :)
It's nifty actually getting insight into the anarchist's reasoning. I can't endorse it, because it's a huge leap from "people are oppressed" to "capitalism causes homophobia". I'd also encourage all socialists to consider what makes one a worker vs an "owner of the means of production". Those terms seemed pretty clear when most jobs were manual labor, but now in the age where anyone can be an entrepreneur or own some publicly traded or privately owned stock, there's a million exceptions to the billionaire/worker model.
Brother, such a young mind and knowledgeable...keep up the good work, breed and create others.
Damn fine work.
Thank you
love ya LibSoc
good video and I appreciated the nine inch nails music near the end
I love the inclusion of a warm place at the end there
Bravo!
This video is so good
Your videos are amazing and I appreciate them. You said the only other choice besides wage labor is starvation. What do you think about people who are their own bosses, like contractors/ artists/ etc?
What a fucking fantastic video. Bravo.
The question we need to ask is, how do we do that and what replaces it?
They're serious questions that need to be answered and we have to discuss them (but let's not fall out over that discussion, we can all agree that the current system drags us down and needs to go)
I will be addressing these questions in my next videos.
I look forward to that.
I should add that this is an updated version of an old video which is part of a larger series. So I have made videos on these topics before. You can check those out, though I'll add the qualifier that my politics were less developed at the time I made them.
you are so fucking inspiring
*Loose Change theme begins to play*
You're better than that.
Loose Change theme?
Great video
a good clip keep up the good work
superb
Hierarchical structuring is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Anarchism or any anomalous force of collective energies could represent another naturally occurring instance similar to the way opposing forces involved in entropy take shape. Never forget you have a choice in either viewing yourself as other or joining in the promotion of the philosophy associated with any system of thought. Don't fall victim to propaganda; yet take up the role that ushers in the best results for yourself. Others will appreciate and respect you for what do, over whatever it is you so choose to let fall from your lips. Time is limited.
Do you still have the script? Would love to translate it into german
I do have the script, though there are subtitles on the video.
Very good video, thank you for your work. I have one curiosity: have you ever considered the role of speciesism and the oppression of animals in the building of hierarchical and capitalist systems?
Greetings, comrade! Love your videos, I have one question for you though: Do you think Anarchy/Socialism can be established in one country surrounded by capitalist countries? It seems likely to me that such a society would suffer a sort of "brain drain", as people would get a free education there, but would then decide to work elsewhere for higher wages.
I think there needs to be a world revolution. And I don't think people would leave if an anarchist region were established due to the opportunities provided for self-directed labour.
Libertarian Socialist Rants Fair enough. Thanks for the answer!
Not only that, but who cares if people leave after getting an education? They are free and a basic right for all. Plus, they will take with them parts of society they learned living in Anarchia (the theoretical Anarchist "country") thus exporting the ideology to other states.
great video, just really sick of that matrix soundtrack
Song in the background is clubbed to death by juno reactor
It's Rob Dougan.
Libertarian Socialist Rants was Mr. Dougan the original artist or someone who did a cover? I just checked and juno reactor is listed as a group that perfomed this song.
The original artist
Libertarian Socialist Rants thank you
I wish you did more videos. They keep getting better, and I don't know if you realize just how many people you've directly and indirectly brought over to the radical left over the years. LeftTube needs a such a well-spoken advocate for radical labour.
fantastic video. Very much needed if we're ever going to rid ourselves of the yoke of liberal parties
read the Leviathan by Hobbes
The consolidation of power, both political and economic, into the hands of a few is the greatest existential threat our species faces.
Yo what's your thoughts on reformism? Alexandria Ocazio Cortez getting elected recently seems to have sparked a conversation about democratic socialism (really social democracy, but whatever). Do you think the potential shift in the Overton window is worth taking advantage? Is it possible to expand the scope of socialising healthcare and education towards socialising other basic needs, like child care, food and housing as an example? Or how public financing of elections can start a discussion on adding democracy to other aspects to society like the workplace in the form of worker coops?
Personally I think if the ruling class's feet get wet, they'll retaliate in kind with resource hoarding, assassinating political opponents and getting lynch mobs and police to destroy public foodstores and hospitals, not unlike Venezuelia. I honestly don't know if there's a peaceful way out of that.
DragoonBoom Social democracy is an improvement over what currently exists in the United States but it is nowhere near enough.
Also personally I think it is impossible to reform society into socialism through the democratic process as the state would never allow that to happen.
There's no possibility of achieving libertarian socialism through electoral action.
Though a generally more leftist/progressive Overton Window would (perhaps) make it easier to achieve anarchistic goals on the ground via direct action. So I guess it's not a bad thing.
Still, the statist left needs to stay out of the way of direct-actionists and stop trying to either co-opt or suppress their activities. Some kind of "left unity" between statists and anti-authoritarians is off the table, but a good compromise might be some kind of "non-interference" agreement. In other words, statist leftists can try to achieve their goals through governmental action, anti-authoritarians can try to achieve their goals through direct action, and they can each agree to at least not thwart the efforts of the other.
That hasn't been the case in the past. The statist left has always used governmental power to repress autonomous movements and monopolise initiatives undertaken through direct action, from the Bolsheviks to the British Labour Party.
Also, statist left isn't an insult. It's just a description. It refers to leftists who try to undertake change through the state instead of through grassroots self-organising.
Pacojjjss Df
Henry Kissinger? What?
What are talking about? How does he have any connection to what I said?
Pacojjjss Df
Yes, left and right have both used governmental power to repress. I don't understand what your point is and I don't understand what Henry Kissinger has to do with anything.
You don't explain yourself well.