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
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