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A stumbling youtube twat takes an hour to try and justify the humour of a rich privileged celebrity when it punches down hard
Left Tube and Anarchist Videos
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A stumbling youtube twat takes an hour to try and justify the humour of a rich privileged celebrity when it punches down hard
A very good video that argues the case against backing Jeremy Corbyn in the last two general elections
A great video by Cameron Watt about intergenerational differences and young people today
Great video by Thought Slime on Bill Gates and billionaires from a couple of years ago
A great video by Lucky Black Cat about voting and electoralism - wish I'd watched it a while ago.
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Loner Box is a liberal but does some interesting content, including this video (his latest) :
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This video doesn't present a balanced view because the anarchist character comes across badly. Her arguments are terrible
In your stupid, incorrect, pro-bourgeois opinion. Personally I think that trying to build a workers movement and autonomous alternatives from below is a damn good idea.
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Birds Angel Delight
Where did I say otherwise, you dumb prick?
A great video from 2020 - the Seductive Power of the Right-Wing Fantasy : Can We Break the Spell? Lucky Black Cat takes a look at right-wingers and radical responsibility - A fantasy of empowerment that can boost confidence and motivation but has dangerous side-effects -
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‘Not ugly, just poor’: how the beauty industry is widening the class divide
Botox, fillers and plastic surgery are becoming increasingly necessary to live up to contemporary beauty standards, creating a beauty tax that is pricing many people out
A pretty good and quite interesting video from Andrewism, a pretty good channel. This is his latest :
This video covers the basics behind Roger Griffin's definitional method for identifying Fascism (or palingenetic populist ultra-nationalism). Video by Post-Comprehension. I found the bit about the Brazilian Integralists particularly interesting.
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Jesse Lee Peterson is either the stupidest man alive, or he pretends to be. Something fucked up must have happened in his life to make him such an ally to racist scum
The first part of a multi-part series by the Post-Comprehension channel covering Roger Griffin's concept of para-fascism. Here Being goes over the basics of what fascistization is, why regimes engaged in it, and the particular relationships they had with fascists.
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Enjoy Dennis Prager, a disingenuous religious crank and host of 'Prager U' (not a university nor anything close), being taken apart in a debate with Ana Kasparian.
Libertarian Communist Platform responds to David Pakman's anti-socialist nonsense (video from 2018)
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Birds Angel Delight
I'm unclear as to how you could get to Cameron's positoin without first taking control of the state and protecting it against capitalist interests.
I don't agree with David because his argument is just bad faith. Authority itself isn't the problem if it can be justified, and in the case of a revolution it would be necessary to ensure a successful transition
I don't agree with David because his argument is just bad faith. Authority itself isn't the problem if it can be justified, and in the case of a revolution it would be necessary to ensure a successful transition
Well we obviously have different views on this. I believe that the state is designed to protect and enforce oppressive class relations, not to dissolve them. For me the state perpetuates class relations in new and destructive forms. Whereas without the state any ruling class will not be able to enforce their will on the people/working class and will not be able to continue to exist.
The libertarian communist alternative to states would be bottom-up organs of worker's self-organisation such as the commune (free federation/popular assemblies and workers' councils for example).
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Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Yes, the goal is the removal of the state. But how are you going to simply get rid of the state without first having to take control of it. The rest of the capitalist world will move against you for one thing. Under democratic working class control there's no need to oppress the working class. But the whole world will have to move to a socialist position otherwise the whole thing will fail.
Well to deal with the state we'd need a popular/working class revolution that destroys the state and replaces it with the organs of workers' self-organisation.
But as I say, we clearly have different views on this.
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And I'm asking you how your model works. We both have the same goal. But if Britain underwent a revolution that entity would still exist because of borders and other ostensibly state mechanisms. The capitalist countries in the rest of the world would conspire to crush us. Under democratic working class control I see no reason why the state, untilsuch time as it withers, would be oppressive on anyone expcept capitalists seeking to regain power. Whether that's a federation of communes or a central bureacracy it's going to amount to the same thing. The state oppresses us now because of capitalism
You remind me of glitchhiker. He used to like derailing this thread in a very similar way and had the same sort of politics.. I think you're perfectly capable of finding out for yourself how the commune model works and are probably not genuinely interested in it, but simply want to run it down and apply your own cynicism. But hey, maybe I'm wrong, so I'll just leave you with this . . .
Throughout history there have occurred, when needed, structures of popular assemblies and workers councils (which is the same structure known as the commune - where the term communism originates). Popular assemblies are meetings of ordinary people which organise against the dominant hierarchical institutions (states, corporations, etc). Assemblies are non-hierarchical, with everyone having equal power instead of dividing the group into order takers and order givers. Libertarian communism is usually used to make decisions in the assemblies. These assemblies can be formed in the neighbourhoods, workplaces, villages, towns and cities. They typically use mandated & recallable delegates to coordinate their activities.
Mandated delegates simply implement the decisions of their assemblies, where decision making power stays, unlike representatives who can implement any decision they want once they gain power. The most famous systems of mandated & recallable delegates are the workers councils, which are confederations of worker assemblies. This structure of decentralized communism is the embryo of an anarchist society. An anarchist society would be organized by voluntary non-hierarchical associations, such as these assemblies & councils, rather than through authoritarian institutions like corporations and the state. These organs of workers self-organisation were usually short lived and disbanded within a few years or so. This is because these structures consisted of a majority of participants who were not anarchists and did not see these structures as the embryo of the future society, but we believe they can be - however it would require a working-class revolution for it to be achieved.
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Libertarian Communist Platform takes a look at hierarchy, human nature and self determination theory
How could I have not posted the latest Cringe Corner from the Thought Slime channel from about two weeks ago -
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so defeated, thinks it's funny
Crossposting here, new video interview with someone from Inicjatywa Pracownicza/Workers' Initiative in Poland:
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Agnieszka Mróz from the Polish base union Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP) from Poznań, reports on how the situation of workers in Ukraine is currently deteriorating rapidly, with zero-hour contracts, the obligation to work 60 hours a week and much more being imposed on them.
Base unions such as Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP), SUD-Solidaires, Conlutas, ADL-Cobas are organising solidarity convoys to Ukraine to support the unions there who are currently fighting both the Russian tanks and the erasure of their rights as workers.
Solidarity with Trade Unions in Ukraine
Report by Agnieszka Mroz, Inicjatywa Pracownicza, Poznan
Agnieszka Mróz from the Polish base union Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP) from Poznań, reports on how the situation of workers in Ukraine is currently deteriorating rapidly, with zero-hour contracts, the obligation to work 60 hours a week and much more being imposed on them.
Base unions such as Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP), SUD-Solidaires, Conlutas, ADL-Cobas are organising solidarity convoys to Ukraine to support the unions there who are currently fighting both the Russian tanks and the erasure of their rights as workers.
Dick Coughlan AKA Brother Neuro takes a look at some Dave Rubin clips
The library has been a long-standing institution in our society, but what if we applied its philosophy more broadly? Let's imagine what it would mean to realise the possibilities of this proto-socialist concept and reintroduce free access to the commons through a library economy. Video by Andrewism.
In times such as ours, when the old system has shown itself incapable of meeting the needs of the populace, it is imperative that we lay out a vision for the future. Deconstruction of the current paradigm may fuel outrage, but outrage alone cannot build a movement, nor can it construct a new society of solidarity. In this video, Anark lays out a framework for how a decentralized socialist society might be managed, inspecting common criticisms and attempting to meet their burden.
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