She presents herself as an educator on these sorts of thing, but she didn't even read Capital outside of part of it years ago! I am all for making Marxist critique accessible to outsiders and spreading the worldview, but if you're going to be the one educating people on these sorts of things, you should have done the required reading.
"yes, I am a leftist, yes I know it's an economic theory, no I haven't read any of the fundamental economic texts, yes I make educational videos on that field, no i do not have an understanding of economics."
No, being a leftist is when you don't hate women and minorities.
But seriously though, from all the unflattering caricatures she made of both anarchists and MLs and general lack of principled takes on the economic side of things I assume that Contra is basically a succdem. What kinda of economical knowledge do you need to be a succdem? Just say that socialized healthcare won't make the country implode, because it seems to work everywhere else and that's that.
Reading Marx isn't a prerequisite to being left wing but also Contra has, if this tweet is to be believed, read quite a fair amount of Marx and studied him at a university level
Are we reading the same tweet? The tweet is a list of Marx's writing that she has read and a brag about having studied him in university. The tweet is annoying because it is overeducated nerd shit. She stopped reading Marx after reading a bunch of it, you don't have to like keep rereading it over and over like a mantra every day, you get the nerd cred for just reading it once
She's a liar, she hasn't read a lick of Marx, she lifted the bibliography section from Wikipedia and posted the ones she thought would make her sound smartest
lol she can't even form a coherent outline of Keynesian General theory despite the fact it forms the bedrock of her ideology.......yet she wants us to believe she read Marx, I have more respect for MMTers then twitter hacks like her
Imagine being proud of not reading theory while basing your youtube channel on how epic nerd things knower you are.
To be fair, economic side of things isn't her wheelhouse. She made several videos about capitalism and they weren't good.
She presents herself as an educator on these sorts of thing, but she didn't even read Capital outside of part of it years ago! I am all for making Marxist critique accessible to outsiders and spreading the worldview, but if you're going to be the one educating people on these sorts of things, you should have done the required reading.
I agree, but does she even consider herself a Marxist? Seems like it's not really her thing...
Obviously not from the thread, but the Capitalism video was clearly trying to articulate a Marxist critique or something very similar.
It was decent but the whole thing started as a response to Richard Spencer which was kinda cringe
I mean the primary purpose of her channel for a long time was deradicalizing chuds.
"yes, I am a leftist, yes I know it's an economic theory, no I haven't read any of the fundamental economic texts, yes I make educational videos on that field, no i do not have an understanding of economics."
No, being a leftist is when you don't hate women and minorities.
But seriously though, from all the unflattering caricatures she made of both anarchists and MLs and general lack of principled takes on the economic side of things I assume that Contra is basically a succdem. What kinda of economical knowledge do you need to be a succdem? Just say that socialized healthcare won't make the country implode, because it seems to work everywhere else and that's that.
Reading Marx isn't a prerequisite to being left wing but also Contra has, if this tweet is to be believed, read quite a fair amount of Marx and studied him at a university level
Are we reading the same tweet? The tweet is a list of Marx's writing that she has read and a brag about having studied him in university. The tweet is annoying because it is overeducated nerd shit. She stopped reading Marx after reading a bunch of it, you don't have to like keep rereading it over and over like a mantra every day, you get the nerd cred for just reading it once
She's a liar, she hasn't read a lick of Marx, she lifted the bibliography section from Wikipedia and posted the ones she thought would make her sound smartest
That's just called being a philosophy major
lol she can't even form a coherent outline of Keynesian General theory despite the fact it forms the bedrock of her ideology.......yet she wants us to believe she read Marx, I have more respect for MMTers then twitter hacks like her
She also never said she disagreed with anything she read of him.