I have complained about it before but I heard on of the guests from guerrilla history on the deprogram make this argument and it made me want to gouge my eyes out. This kind of trans historical argumentation is both stupid and unmarxist, just stop! Sorry I felt the need to vent.
These states were not imperialist and they weren't settler colonies. This framing doesn't make any fucking sense when transfered to a medieval context. Like the best you could say is that the Italian city states represented an early firm of merchant capital, but even then that is an incredibly complex phenomenon that has only a tenuous connection to modern capitalism. Calling these city states early capitalism is just a fancy way of saying "lol u hate capitalism yet you exchange good or service! Curious!"
Seriously just stop. I don't know why this set me off but it was like a week ago and I am still mad about it.
It's a USAmerican living in Russia
Wow, that’s a cursed combo. Imagine calling yourself a leftist and moving to the country actively courting social conservative immigrants.
I don't know anything about the guy, but seeing as how he's involved with the dude from RevLeftRadio I very much doubt that he's some sort of "patsoc" weirdo or whatever.
He may have mentioned why he moved to Russia on the show but I don't remember.
That’s fair, the DP lads just have a terrible track record when it comes to guests who upon further inspection suck.
Apart from that russian ultra dude, who?
I pretty much only listen to the eps that they have guests on, and I honestly can't remember
what is an ultra?
He (Henry Hakamaki) just helped write the latest English translation of Losurdo’s Stalin. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s usually seemed pretty good to me. I don’t listen to The Deprogram though, so this definitely could have been a miss from him.