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haha why is this so funny? "Workers of the world, unite! (alone in your atomized apartments to listen to me also being an individualist dork)"

Malcolm X with the truth about the inherent counter revolutionary nature of these comfortable radlibs who scoff at the idea of actually listening to the working class instead of lecturing to them:

https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/mxp/speeches/mxa17.html

The house Slave usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master's second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master's house--probably in the basement or the attic--but he still lived in the master's house.

So whenever that house Slave identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, "We have good food," the house Slave would say, "Yes, we have plenty of good food." "We" have plenty of good food. When the master said that "we have a fine home here," the house Slave said, "Yes, we have a fine home here." When the master would be sick, the house Slave identified himself so much with his master he'd say, "What's the matter boss, we sick?" His master's pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Slave would fight harder to put the master's house out than the master himself would.

woke DSA radlibs are DOING THE WORK (Doing. The. Work. #DoingTheWork) to save the American empire :dsa:

But then you had another Slave out in the field. The house Slave was in the minority. The masses--the field Slavees were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he'd die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

umm actually that's Stalinist red fascism, watch my Breadtube video about Hannah Arendt's PMC holocaust revisionism to learn more about the evils of totalitarian communist violence

If someone came to the house Slave and said, "Let's go, let's separate," naturally that Uncle Tom would say, "Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?" That's the house Slave. But if you went to the field Slave and said, "Let's go, let's separate," he wouldn't even ask you where or how. He'd say, "Yes, let's go." And that one ended right there.

domesticated Liz Warren PMC voice: "I am a socialist, however we need a plan. Bernie does not have a plan like my neoliberal Reagan coworkers, he is not a friend of workers like us educated priests who are ordained in the practices of bourgeois accumulation"

  • truth [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    these comfortable radlibs who scoff at the idea of actually listening to the working class instead of lecturing to them

    If there's one thing that the working class reiterates to me every time I listen, it's the need to read settlers

    ( that said, that episode with Brace was ridiculous. I can't believe neither he nor Matt had actually tried to read it, it's not that hard. Like even if you disagree with the premise it's worth reading to see what Sakai is trying to say. If you haven't read it, you shouldn't dismiss it out of hand )

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They haven't bothered to read it because almost all the most annoying versions of online leftists constantly bang the podium that you have to read it. Like many of the things they do, it is mostly out of spite.

      I might be misremembering the episode, but they don't dismiss it out of hand, they basically say that all the things that have been summarized by it are things that they have theoretically picked up from other works they have read or political projects they have participated in, and therefore do not feel the need to read Settlers. They don't even disagree with what they believe the summarized premise is (which they slightly misunderstand but mostly have a grasp on), they just don't see the point in reiterating it's conclusions ad nauseum, as if they are a panacea against reaction. Basically, the problem is that it has become too cringe, regardless of how theoretically beneficial might be.

      Now, I think they should read Settlers, just to actually have a grasp at what people are talking about (and to understand when it's arguments are being misrepresented by too online leftists, as if often is), but I still think they can do good political work and theoretical work without reading it.

      It's kinda a 'First as tragedy, second as farce' version of Big Bill Haywood's classic aphorism, 'I don't need to read Marx's Capital, because all over my body are the marks of capital.' Haywood really should have read Capital, but that doesn't mean he still didn't do what good work he could in his lifetime.