Hasan Piker is a not real leftist. He's popular, entertaining, attractive, promotes Marxism to a large audience daily, consistently has good political opinions because he analyses the world through a Marxist framework, and he bought a house with the money he earned by performing in front of a camera 12 hours every day for 3 years.
Marxists are not supposed to be popular. I'm the real Marxist and I know that Marxists are unpopular because I am unpopular. The more you disagree with other people, the more correct you are, the more unpopular you become. I'm not cynical. I'm not a contrarian. I'm not jealous.
Marxism is not supposed to be promoted to a large audience, especially not one that is mostly young people. Marxism is correct because it is esoteric and should only be discussed in the privacy of insular internet forums. I'm the real Marxist because I post doomerism comments for 10 people to read on a podcast fan forum.
Hasan may say that he's a Marxist and promotes Marx's ideas frequently to thousands of people and he uses Marx's ideas to consistently come to correct analyses about politics and the world--- What was I saying? --- Marxism is not about having read Marx or understanding Marx. Marxism is about posting hot takes and doing discourse among small groups of people on the internet.
God I'm so angry right now. I don't care that the house that Hasan bought is also the place that he works and also he uses as a communal space for all his friends and family. It's actually bad that Hasan uses his nice house as a tool to get nonpolitical entertainers on his show so that he can promote Marxism to other larger audience. Marxists are not supposed to have money or nice things. Having enough money to live comfortable and owning personal property is burjwei. If Hasan was a real Marxist, he would give away all his money. The less money and nice things you have, the more Marxist you are. Marx famously said, "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy".
Hopefully by now you can see that Hasan is a fake socialist. I always have to point this out because I am the real Marxist. The way that I let other people know that I'm a Marxist is not by having correct political analysis or by doing political action, but instead by constantly posturing myself as further left than every well known Leftist political figure.
Defining classes by amount of income is liberalism. When you say someone is bad just because they sell their labor for above X amount of money, you are just being a liberal. There is no ethical conundrum to receiving money for doing a performance.
The problem with capitalists is not the amount of money that they receive, it is that they use capital to steal value from the labor of other people. The capitalist sells the labor of a worker or the commodity made by workers, and then pays the worker less than the value that the worker generated, taking a chunk for themself. Hasan is not doing this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels-Haus
This was Friedrich Engels's house. Friedrich Engels's house is roughly 8500 square feet in floor space. By comparison, Hasan's house has an approximate 3800 square feet floor space. Is Friedrich Engels a fake socialist for have a house twice the size of Hasan?
Not that it should matter but Hasan turns away a lot of money.
Twitch forces him to run ads on his show but he negotiated with Twitch to have the lowest number of ads per hour out of any streamer on the site. He encouraged his viewers to run ad blockers until Twitch told him that he couldn't say that anymore.
He tells his viewers not to feel obligated to donate to him if they can't afford it. He tells his viewers that they can use amazon prime to subscribe to his channel so that they don't have to pay $5 per month even though he receives less money from this kind of subscription.
His merchandise is union made.
He allows any person to record his channel and post the recordings on youtube and he lets them collect revenue from his show clips. There's at least 50 channels on youtube that collect money just from reuploading Hasan clips and Hasan doesn't get any money from it. At one point, youtube demonetized the Hasan clip channels and Hasan went out of his way to make it so that youtube allowed people he doesn't know to monetize his show clips again.
Marxism is a materialist ideology. The point of Marxism is that working people deserve to have nice personal possessions when they work for them. If a person works really hard selling their labor and is able to buy a nice house, that's great, I'm happy for them.
I defend Hasan because I see that he has introduced more people to Marxism than I ever have and probably ever will. I see people needlessly disparage him on this site all the time just for the sake of being elitist or sectarian. When there is a person rising is popularity who is promoting Marxism, I think it should be celebrated.
I don't think Hasan should give away his money because that's not how anything works. Homelessness is not caused by a lack of available resources. If Hasan or any working class person simply gave away all their money to house the homeless, there would still be just as many homeless people. This is because homelessness is incorporated into capitalism by design. Marx calls this the reserve army of labor. Capitalism forces people to be homeless as a threat to other working people that they need to work for less money. You can't solve homelessness through charity, that is liberal ideology. There needs to be a change to the economic system, either through government intervention or organized labor.
What is far more important is organizing labor, which is something that Hasan advocates for frequently and even has labor organizers on his show.
There's a lot of things wrong about your post. You're just repeating the same "socialism is when you don't have an iphone" rhetoric that both chuds and liberals say. What you are saying is not only antisocialist, but also ahistorical and completely out of touch.
I tried to engage in conversation with you positively and you responded to me with, as you said, being a "debatebro". Debating is a waste of time and debatebros need to read theory, so here's a quote from Friedrich Engels saying that homelessness is caused by capitalism's reserve army of labor. Contrary to what you believe, the reserve army of labor does force some level of homelessness upon people. The part in bold explains that homelessness will not be solved unless the economy is changed.
Whence then comes the housing shortage? How did it arise? As a good bourgeois, Dr. Sax is not supposed to know that it is a necessary product of the bourgeois social order; that it cannot fail to be present in a society in which the great masses of the workers are exclusively dependent upon wages, that is to say, on the sum of foodstuffs necessary for their existence and for the propagation of their kind; in which improvements of the existing machinery continually throw masses of workers out of employment; in which violent and regularly recurring industrial vacillations determine on the one hand the existence of a large reserve army of unemployed workers, and on the other hand drive large masses of the workers temporarily unemployed onto the streets; in which the workers are crowded together in masses in the big towns, at a quicker rate than dwellings come into existence for them under existing conditions; in which, therefore, there must always be tenants even for the most infamous pigsties; and in which finally the house owner in his capacity as capitalist has not only the right, but, in view of the competition, to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can. In such a society the housing shortage is no accident; it is a necessary institution and it can be abolished together with all its effects on health, etc., only if the whole social order from which it springs is fundamentally refashioned. That, however, bourgeois socialism dare not know. It dare not explain the housing shortage from the existing conditions. And therefore nothing remains for it but to explain the housing shortage by means of moral phrases as the result of the baseness of human beings, as the result of original sin, so to speak.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ch02.htm
I just hate him for his opinions on modern and past socialism. But he did help with my journey to the left, and he actually encourages his base to read and improve their knowledge.
Hasan Piker is a not real leftist. He's popular, entertaining, attractive, promotes Marxism to a large audience daily, consistently has good political opinions because he analyses the world through a Marxist framework, and he bought a house with the money he earned by performing in front of a camera 12 hours every day for 3 years.
Marxists are not supposed to be popular. I'm the real Marxist and I know that Marxists are unpopular because I am unpopular. The more you disagree with other people, the more correct you are, the more unpopular you become. I'm not cynical. I'm not a contrarian. I'm not jealous.
Marxism is not supposed to be promoted to a large audience, especially not one that is mostly young people. Marxism is correct because it is esoteric and should only be discussed in the privacy of insular internet forums. I'm the real Marxist because I post doomerism comments for 10 people to read on a podcast fan forum.
Hasan may say that he's a Marxist and promotes Marx's ideas frequently to thousands of people and he uses Marx's ideas to consistently come to correct analyses about politics and the world--- What was I saying? --- Marxism is not about having read Marx or understanding Marx. Marxism is about posting hot takes and doing discourse among small groups of people on the internet.
God I'm so angry right now. I don't care that the house that Hasan bought is also the place that he works and also he uses as a communal space for all his friends and family. It's actually bad that Hasan uses his nice house as a tool to get nonpolitical entertainers on his show so that he can promote Marxism to other larger audience. Marxists are not supposed to have money or nice things. Having enough money to live comfortable and owning personal property is burjwei. If Hasan was a real Marxist, he would give away all his money. The less money and nice things you have, the more Marxist you are. Marx famously said, "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy".
Hopefully by now you can see that Hasan is a fake socialist. I always have to point this out because I am the real Marxist. The way that I let other people know that I'm a Marxist is not by having correct political analysis or by doing political action, but instead by constantly posturing myself as further left than every well known Leftist political figure.
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Defining classes by amount of income is liberalism. When you say someone is bad just because they sell their labor for above X amount of money, you are just being a liberal. There is no ethical conundrum to receiving money for doing a performance.
The problem with capitalists is not the amount of money that they receive, it is that they use capital to steal value from the labor of other people. The capitalist sells the labor of a worker or the commodity made by workers, and then pays the worker less than the value that the worker generated, taking a chunk for themself. Hasan is not doing this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels-Haus
This was Friedrich Engels's house. Friedrich Engels's house is roughly 8500 square feet in floor space. By comparison, Hasan's house has an approximate 3800 square feet floor space. Is Friedrich Engels a fake socialist for have a house twice the size of Hasan?
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Not that it should matter but Hasan turns away a lot of money.
Twitch forces him to run ads on his show but he negotiated with Twitch to have the lowest number of ads per hour out of any streamer on the site. He encouraged his viewers to run ad blockers until Twitch told him that he couldn't say that anymore.
He tells his viewers not to feel obligated to donate to him if they can't afford it. He tells his viewers that they can use amazon prime to subscribe to his channel so that they don't have to pay $5 per month even though he receives less money from this kind of subscription.
His merchandise is union made.
He allows any person to record his channel and post the recordings on youtube and he lets them collect revenue from his show clips. There's at least 50 channels on youtube that collect money just from reuploading Hasan clips and Hasan doesn't get any money from it. At one point, youtube demonetized the Hasan clip channels and Hasan went out of his way to make it so that youtube allowed people he doesn't know to monetize his show clips again.
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Marxism is a materialist ideology. The point of Marxism is that working people deserve to have nice personal possessions when they work for them. If a person works really hard selling their labor and is able to buy a nice house, that's great, I'm happy for them.
I defend Hasan because I see that he has introduced more people to Marxism than I ever have and probably ever will. I see people needlessly disparage him on this site all the time just for the sake of being elitist or sectarian. When there is a person rising is popularity who is promoting Marxism, I think it should be celebrated.
I don't think Hasan should give away his money because that's not how anything works. Homelessness is not caused by a lack of available resources. If Hasan or any working class person simply gave away all their money to house the homeless, there would still be just as many homeless people. This is because homelessness is incorporated into capitalism by design. Marx calls this the reserve army of labor. Capitalism forces people to be homeless as a threat to other working people that they need to work for less money. You can't solve homelessness through charity, that is liberal ideology. There needs to be a change to the economic system, either through government intervention or organized labor.
What is far more important is organizing labor, which is something that Hasan advocates for frequently and even has labor organizers on his show.
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There's a lot of things wrong about your post. You're just repeating the same "socialism is when you don't have an iphone" rhetoric that both chuds and liberals say. What you are saying is not only antisocialist, but also ahistorical and completely out of touch.
I tried to engage in conversation with you positively and you responded to me with, as you said, being a "debatebro". Debating is a waste of time and debatebros need to read theory, so here's a quote from Friedrich Engels saying that homelessness is caused by capitalism's reserve army of labor. Contrary to what you believe, the reserve army of labor does force some level of homelessness upon people. The part in bold explains that homelessness will not be solved unless the economy is changed.
I just hate him for his opinions on modern and past socialism. But he did help with my journey to the left, and he actually encourages his base to read and improve their knowledge.