Western Leftists, it's 100% your fault that Joe Biden isn't a tankie.
Sorry, but after 5 minutes, I had to stop and skim the transcript. Although in fairness, he ends it with don't put too much emphasis on electoralism which is correct.
I don't understand how or why he keeps hating on MLs so much. There was a point where he was saying how the argument liberals make for why they can never do any better is blah blah blah all the fallacious tactics libs use and we know is wrong (this point he's correct on). Then he said "doesn't that sound a bit like Marxist Leninists..." and I almost got whiplash, why would you use a very large historical/international tendency as the benchmark to describe how bad liberals are??
Also he almost seems to acknowledge that bad tankies hiding under the bed are something real (though maybe this was sarcasm that I didn't get).
His point about radical third spaces was certainly correct though, as well as that small groups that do something specific and material are probably better for their immediate community than another overly ambitious workers party with aspirations beyond their ability.
I know not to mind online personalities and certainly this is just another In a long list of reasons to realize that the internet is not a place of any real change.
I don't understand how or why he keeps hating on MLs so much. There was a point where he was saying how the argument liberals make for why they can never do any better is blah blah blah all the fallacious tactics libs use and we know is wrong (this point he's correct on). Then he said "doesn't that sound a bit like Marxist Leninists..." and I almost got whiplash, why would you use a very large historical/international tendency as the benchmark to describe how bad liberals are??
Meh, he's just a trend-chaser or an opportunist, depending on how charitable you are. I can't take anyone who changes political ideology as much as him seriously. He went from an ancap to an ancom to an ML to an MLM to some vague ultraleftist. He's probably going to be a Trot in a couple years.
Not to mention the legal challenges and barriers the two quasi-state parties throw at third parties and third party candidates.
Reminds me of my disappointment with the recent Unlearning Economics video, where UE repeatedly talks about how bad planned economy supposedly is, despite it having provided probably the greatest improvements in the standards of living for people who were not beneficiaries of colonialism.
