Motherfucker, who do you think funds the creation of industrial monopolies in the U.S.? We are literally down to one or two companies in most areas of manufacturing, outside of the very cheapest (mostly mass food prep, and even that has rapidly shrunk in the last three years)? Do you think the industrial capitalists will bite their pay masters hands because their workers, the people who they are hardwired to control and oppress, want them too?
Jesus Christ Almighty, the last grift was stupid but understandable in a moderately Marxist manner, this is just too stupid to live.
His last grift was ideologically situated on blaming imperialism on some vague undefined group of bankers who control all media and culture. And if that sounds antisemitic to you that's because it is.
So fucking frustrating when you say "Big finance is destroying this country" and people reply with "that sounds antisemitist" because it has literally become an antisemitist talking point.
Just like how being anti-war is now just pro-Russia/China and being pro-hygenie is just shilling for Bill Gates and Big Pharma.
Material analysis is dead when everything is just a dog whistle for another thing.
that's true, but Maupin himself dipped way too far into the other end. Read his book "Satan at the Fountainhead." He fails to give a materialist analysis, and so when he defines the enemy, he talks in vague terms about western bankers or media financiers. It also doesn't help that he attaches this group to Israel, but fails to define why they're attached to Israel other than accusations of western imperialism promoted by undefined financial institutions. The book ends with a remix of the 14 words, except with Americans instead of white people.
It's bad, Maupin is either an antisemite or a stooge, and his organization was full of sex pests anyway. Good riddance to him and his stupid "patriotic" organization.
He won't be missed. But he's so fucking loud, you can't hear the superior analysis over his obnoxious online presence.
People talk shit about a host of leftist-libs (your Zizeks and Chompskys and Natalies and Liams and assorted UK-based Breadtubers) but every day I'm grateful anything other than InfraRed and JBP competing for space in my suggestion feed.
Even Alice talking about the JFK assassination is better than this trash.
They hold mainstream views and try to steer viewers back into the liberal centrist orthodoxy, so even though they're on the fringe I think they're still effective at their role of recuperating individuals who start to question capitalism, imperialism, and so on
For me these fringe “leftist” orgs are 99% psyops
What? Podcasters?
Eh. If the Pod Damn America people are cops, I'm just going to write this all off as a simulation.
At that level, you're just denying Communists even exist.
Oh yeah, sure. But that's far from the only communist-inclined organization.
moderately Marxist manner
Well yeah he knows what way the wind is blowing he knows he burned all the bridges with any principled communists so the only avenue left is the reactionary grift.
He'll join the rest at the wall of fame.
Love how all these dipshits keep coming up with third positionism (aka fascism) by another name
They also really like embracing the capitalist growth paradigm or rather are very explicitly anti any sort of post-growth/degrowth thought - which is a peculiar red line running through a bunch of rather incoherent ideology
If I recall it's a whole thing in Larouchian thought, where his idea of a successful American Revolution is one where America is reindustrialized, which is a fine idea as a concept since there would be a degree of local reindustrialization necessary for international "degrowth" (think about how the process of Del Monte makes their peach cups by harvesting them in Greece then barging them literally across the world to be processed in Thailand to be barged yet again across the world to be sold here in the USA. Degrowth would mean cutting out the whole fucking process and letting local peach farmers send their peaches to local factories to distribute internally with some international trade to places that can't grow their own peaches etc.)
The kicker is that dipshit Larouch went from a trotskyite position which meant state control over the means of production to a right-opportunist position (new deal shitlib) meaning state oversight of capitalists that retain control over the means of production.
Any fucking Larouchian clown that stans that ultra-Left to right-wing Huey Long 2.0 circus show is an ideologically incoherent whacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman that flitters back and forth between revolutionary and reactionary ideas with zero substance inside them but hot air.
Funny enough the whole "new deal shitlib" shit Larouchites stan is basically the "new deal socialism" and "bill of rights socialism" CPUSA stans as well.
The fucking Lincoln bust they put up at a conference to mirror the old CPUSA is based on the post-psyop CPUSA that tried and failed to appeal to American patriotism
Well if we're gonna be accurate, the failure od CPUSA to appeal to American patriotism occured due to the onset of the cold war and the second Red Scare. A lot of the membership of CPUSA that had joined over the course of the war were from the intelligentsia and the petite bougeoise, whom at the whiff of the threat of legal persecution by the Feds would flee the party and disavow their association all-together. These folks were generally the folks that were attracted by the browderite era agitprop as it was historically up to that point that communists were the greatest fighters and allies against the fascist menace.
Logically, you would look at the contemporary rise of fascism and say the old browderite agitprop might be a strategy to utilize again today, but the problem is that only works if your country is fighting against fascism and not the one actively feeding it. The strategy for that is revolutionary defeatism and/or partisan work a la peoples war etc.
Tl:Dr larouchshite clowns are choosing a poor strategy that has historically failed in the face of federal soft-power repression.
Yeah its a very popular reactionary tendency right now as climate crisis approaches and its becoming clear that degrowth would be necessary to avoid barbarism, they just try and avoid the barbarism part by instead putting on the blinders and scolding anyone who advocates for degrowth for "hating the working class" or wanting to make peoples lives worse and shit like that.
They hate us for our prosperity or something.
embrace the new alternative economy based on growth
"patriotic socialist" New Right radlib Maupin who lacks any materialist scholarship: "fracking disproves degrowth resource scarcity, we will develop innovations in the free market to solve any contradictions"
Forbes columnist capitalist scholar (actually paid to do basic materialism): "Shale Gas Is Not A Revolution https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurberman/2017/07/05/shale-gas-is-not-a-revolution/?sh=5d0dd6df31b5 "Today, most experts assume that gas abundance and low price will define the next several decades because of shale gas. This had led to massive investment in LNG export facilities. Both the assumption and its investment corollary should be carefully examined through the lens of history. Some analysts incorrectly believe that shale gas producers have already pushed costs so low through technology and efficiency innovation that sub-$3 gas prices will become the new normal. Although it is true that costs have fallen substantially, this is more because of deflationary pricing by the service industry than because of technology and innovation. In fact, the technology that enables unconventional oil and gas production resulted in a 4-fold increase in oil and gas drilling costs from 2003 to 2014 (Figure 8). Depressed demand since 2014 has resulted in a 45% reduction in drilling costs and this accounts for most savings."
New Right radlib Maupin
Also Right-opportunist wannabe PMC Maupin
Good post BMF :rat-salute-2:
Woah we get a BMF post on top of a spanky dunk post? Christmas must've came early.
Depressed demand since 2014 has resulted in a 45% reduction in drilling costs
Go...od new for climate change?
The only way to end this is through de-dollarization.
...or unionizing service workers.
When I was in college I ran into my first larouchites. I was a massive lib, 10 years before I would begin to understand Marxism, but even then I was like "i think these guys are just using big words and concepts to bullshit me. I think their politics are extremely weird but they have to hide it in language too confusing to understand."
They were very brash and very in-thier-own-heads about shit. Ron Paul was able to steal all the Bush Era LaRoushite thunder by just saying really basic shit like "War is Bad", "Weed should be legal" and "Budget deficits will create inflation".
So much easier to be a Paul<redacted> than a LaRoushite when you don't need a crash course in 70s politics to know what the hell is going on.
fascist greatest hits album incoming. class collaborationism against foreign threats is literally fascist theory. they claim to be anti-capitalist but then turn around and lobby for collaboration instead of class war. Maupin should be citing Mussolini here.
