Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024
Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024
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Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024
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Maybe I'm just a cranky Marxist — JT's videos are great as a gateway to socialism for the most propagandized Westerners. But does anyone else pick up on an apparent socdem tendency in the explanations provided in videos like this one?
His argument for socialism boils down to moralistic criticism of unequal distribution, and pointing to socialism as a society in which all people receive a guaranteed minimum income, in other words, a more egalitarian society in terms of value received.
Is this not almost identical to the utopian arguments of the Lassalleans whom Marx criticized in his Critique of the Gotha Program?
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JT’s videos are great as a gateway to socialism for the most propagandized Westerners.
Which is exactly his target audience.
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And to be honest, if you are already a socialist you are more likely to read and organize. So videos aren't necessarily meant for you at that point .
Though I admit as a country bumpkin it would be nice to find something like a how-to list of somewhat fleshed out ideas for organizing in your community. Like a third-thought channel or something lol. It's pretty hard to start from scratch. And yea there are no socialist/commie groups here so joining isn't an option and starting one goes back to my previous point.
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I commend the attempt but the content is not above criticism.
The audience of the Gotha Program was essentially the same as JT’s audience, and Marx found it important to produce a polemical critique against reformist tendencies.
We don’t necessarily want support from social democratic groups who have demonstrated fickleness in historical periods like the 1918 German revolution.
We shouldn’t water down the essential tenets of revolutionary theory when appealing to the proletarian masses. We shouldn’t focus so much on distribution, on vague “equality”, or on bourgeois electoral democracy.
These gateway videos should be honest and focus more on the necessity of a total revolution in production, the necessity of a change in our way of life, not merely reform in existing political institutions.
Choice excerpts from the Gotha critique:
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His argument for socialism boils down to moralistic criticism of unequal distribution, and pointing to socialism as a society in which all people receive a guaranteed minimum income, in other words, a more egalitarian society in terms of value received.
Socialism does aim to provide a minimum standard of living for everyone, though. He also talks about worker-owned means of production, democracy in the workplace, and bottom-up decision making wrt centrally planned economic goals. These things are to the left of social democracy.
That being said, the more that I read theory, the less I get out of watching YouTube. It stands to reason that you can't summarize 300+ pages into a 15 minute video.
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fuck second thought. https://youtu.be/L0hDNMe377U
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I posted this in the Dutch socialist subreddit r/Poldersocialisme and it got removed because it 'is not relevant for the subreddit' lmao
but 90 deg counter-clockwiseI stopped posting there because they're a fucking joke. If I were an admin I would've purged every single socdem years ago. Met harde hand.
One of the mods is a huge trotskyist know it all and I suspect him of doing all of the petty removing and banning shit.
I just bought a book called: socialisme, seks en seksualiteit. I think you would like it. It's essays from 1999 by dutch and Belgian marxists on the topic.