Context for the argument (which isn't that exciting, I just love "I was studying communism under Stalinists in Moscow"
Lol like it's an ancient esoteric art and Stalinists are a secret order
Roderic even gave him four things to read and he didn't read any of them before pulling "I studied communism back when they played for beer"
Capital is actually easy to understand if you meditate under a waterfall before reading it
carl is an absolute loser especially in comparison to roderic. Watching this is watching the dril corncob tweet in real time.
edit: hes also one of those 'its fine to use a black person as my avi, because he's famous and no one would confuse it for me, a white guy'
I'm not even sure he's wrong, but it is a spectacularly bitchmade move to try to win internet arguments by going "i'm more marxister than u" like that sounds like you think you're wrong dude.
i don't know who roderic day is but i'm blocked, i don't engage with Carl because I get the feeling he secretly posts in leftypol due to the way he splits threads when arguing.
edit: lol is he seriously arguing with moviebob too
Side note but "stalinists" don't fucking exist or matter anymore. "Stalinism" is not an ideology. Stalin was a Marxist Leninist. The original stalinists were people who didn't want Trotsky to coup the Soviet union, and neither Trotsky, Stalin nor the Soviet union are around anymore, so stop taking about stalinists as if they're real. It's the same as "tankie", just a liberal buzzword for "bad person"
Anyone else remember Freddie DeBoer bragging about being a fifth-generation Marxist?
