My take on Amber and leftists like her is that they hate libs and love dunking just on them so much, that they lose sight of how bad conservatives are.
Hating on libs is good, but don't go so far with it you start thinking conservatives are kinda not bad...
they hate libs so much and love dunking just on them, they lose sight of how bad conservatives are.
Something everyone here should reflect on once and a while. A lot of libs are a bad month from radicalizing, a lot of conservatives are a bad month from setting up a totally-not-racially-motivated checkpoint with a few armed buddies.
One of the things that bothered me about /r/cth (pbuh) was the idea that always being pushed that conservatives were usually closer to socialism than liberals. A lot of weird romanticizing of white hicks as misguided communists that'll surely abandon their reactionary worldview as soon as some DSA nerd tells them that unions are good or some bullshit. It's an opinion one can only form if your only interaction is with globe emoji neoliberal psychos on twitter
Where was that here? "This person wants to do awful things but it looks like they at least honestly believe what they're selling" isn't siding with the right on anything. My recollection might be off, but nothing in that segment struck me as "this person has good social views."
The hosts have some shit takes, some more than others, but we're getting to this weird place where we're waaaaaaaaay too committed to dumping on them for any reason we can possibly scrape together. You can't joke about "what podcast?", still listen to the podcast, get I'm-not-mad-you're-mad when they shit on your forum, then play telephone with segments of the podcast until you come up with something to be pissed at them over. That's gamer drama shit.
We shouldn't be reaching to dump on anyone who's broadly on the left, because how the fuck are we supposed to get anything done that way? No one wants to join a group where your supposed allies go out of their way to take you down, and pissing matches burn people out. Light ribbing of someone on the left is fine, insinuating that they're a social reactionary or even anti-Semetic without something concrete is not.
Amber is a Succ, she’s not on the left. This wall of text to defend your parasocial friend is besides the point, Amber consistently takes the furthest right position she can without getting exiled by her friend group - themselves a bunch of Brooklyn social chauvinists.
She’s the right-wing of the left-wing of capital. She’s the furthest right you can be and still be a social democrat, and social democrats are rightwing chauvinists.
What’s more pathetic? Calling out opportunism when you see it? Or debasing yourself online and twisting yourself into knots to defend one single person you have grown attached to?
Amber Stans in this thread are only making two points: 1) We only hate Amber because she’s a woman and are misogynists and 2) Wow dude why do you care so much?
Both are bad faith. I’m the only one here making actual points about her positions and politics.
Ah yes, the best way to achieve socialism is to take the small slice of America that's to the left of Bernie and divide it up even further. I'm sure we'll have the means of production in hand any day now.
The best way to achieve socialism is the violent seizure of the means of production by the organized working class, something that Amber and her Jacobin clique fight against. They fight against socialism through their rhetoric and actions. They are not on our side.
If you want to win, you need to recognize who is even defending your interests or on your side of the battle. Refusal to recognize an enemy does not make them your friend, it makes you vulnerable and naive.
violent seizure of the means of production by the organized working class
And you plan on achieving this by alienating a significant percentage of people who are to the left of Bernie, a candidate who was to the left of the most of the Democratic Party? Lmfao good luck
No significant portion of the working class gives a shit about Amber. They don’t even know who she is.
Failure to oust opportunists and grifters will actually alienate a much greater percentage of the growing proletariat movement than allowing them to fester will
Trust me, a working class black man gives no shits about the Amber defense squad and is actually more alienated by the white, upper class character of the “left”
If you're willing to cast out someone who is an actual labor organizer, who is actively radicalizing people, and who is one of the farthest-left people in the broadest possible definition of the political mainstream, you're never going to get anywhere. You're not fighting a protracted people's war with the dozen True Leftists who agree with you 100%.
If you want to organize a significant number of people to do real things, you need to talk to people who are light years farther to the right than wherever you think Amber is. You have to talk to libs, you have to talk to apolitical people who have all sorts of embedded reactionary views, you have to talk to some chuds at least to soften the opposition. And at some point you're going to have to rely on some of those people for help.
No revolution in history has succeeded by allying with the Social Democrats. They have always been betrayers and opportunists.
There will be no revolution in the US without a huge radicalizing shift from conditions. This is how the communist movement will form and gain momentum. It has nothing to do with diluting Marxism to accept revisionist succs.
You are distorting history and ideology and class interests to accommodate your podcast friends and it’s pathetic
No revolution in history has succeeded by allying with the Social Democrats.
I keep forgetting that 100-year-old European revolutions in dramatically different political environments are a perfect predictor of whatever the hell is going on in America today
I keep forgetting that if your definition of people you can't work with includes 99% of the population that definition might be useless
Marxism is a science, not a prophecy, and Marx was empirically wrong about quite a bit. Famously, he never thought socialism would first take root in Russia.
If you treat Marxism as a science with specific, limited predictive power, you see that movement towards socialism takes different forms in different environments. If you repeat an experiment with all the same variables you should get the same result, but if you change a million variables translating the theory from 19th-century Germany to 21st-century America you might get something different. And if you look at actual, successful revolutionaries you see this pattern borne out: Lenin and Mao didn't treat Marx like holy writ; they took what Marx got right and then wrote revolutionary manuals of their own for their own specific environments. The whole concept of scientific socialism is that you don't just dogmatically follow the past, and the whole concept of socialism in general is that we can actually change the world for the better and aren't just slaves to what came before us.
Revisionists always twist Marxism by using the “not a dogma” idea, but weirdly enough the “modern new Marxism” is always a petty bourgeois reformism. What a coincidence?! And what’s weirder still is that Mao and Lenin both had to fight against revisionist reformists too! How weird?
Your complete inability to see where you fit into history is pretty funny.
Yeah Succs betrayed us the last 100 times, but this time it’s different because of MaTeRiAl CoNdItIoNs!
We've covered this. 2020 America is pretty fucking different than 1917 Russia, and it doesn't matter if you're ideologically perfect if you refuse to work with 99% of the population.
I'm done here, champ. Go chase your tail with one of your twelve buddies you're starting that protracted people's war with.
They spread misconceptions and distortions of Marxism, not Marxism itself. Radicalizing people in the imperial core and in the west is way more difficult than radicalizing oppressed and colonized people partially because they have all these filters.
A poor Ugandan worker goes straight to Marxism-Leninism as soon as they radicalize.
A poor American worker has to go through social democracy, anarchism, ultraleft positions and then finally sometimes arrive at Marxism-Leninism.
The so-called “mainstreaming of leftist ideas” is actually the spreading of bourgeoise distortions.
No some people are just sick and tired of social democrat reactionaries and opportunist grifters infesting leftist spaces and your refusal to oust them
Weird how Amber’s “bits” always involve siding with the right on social issues and making inappropriate anti-Semitic remarks
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My take on Amber and leftists like her is that they hate libs and love dunking just on them so much, that they lose sight of how bad conservatives are.
Hating on libs is good, but don't go so far with it you start thinking conservatives are kinda not bad...
Something everyone here should reflect on once and a while. A lot of libs are a bad month from radicalizing, a lot of conservatives are a bad month from setting up a totally-not-racially-motivated checkpoint with a few armed buddies.
One of the things that bothered me about /r/cth (pbuh) was the idea that always being pushed that conservatives were usually closer to socialism than liberals. A lot of weird romanticizing of white hicks as misguided communists that'll surely abandon their reactionary worldview as soon as some DSA nerd tells them that unions are good or some bullshit. It's an opinion one can only form if your only interaction is with globe emoji neoliberal psychos on twitter
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Yes the Red Scare pod hosts who she did an interview with in a rightwing magazine.
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Where was that here? "This person wants to do awful things but it looks like they at least honestly believe what they're selling" isn't siding with the right on anything. My recollection might be off, but nothing in that segment struck me as "this person has good social views."
The hosts have some shit takes, some more than others, but we're getting to this weird place where we're waaaaaaaaay too committed to dumping on them for any reason we can possibly scrape together. You can't joke about "what podcast?", still listen to the podcast, get I'm-not-mad-you're-mad when they shit on your forum, then play telephone with segments of the podcast until you come up with something to be pissed at them over. That's gamer drama shit.
We shouldn't be reaching to dump on anyone who's broadly on the left, because how the fuck are we supposed to get anything done that way? No one wants to join a group where your supposed allies go out of their way to take you down, and pissing matches burn people out. Light ribbing of someone on the left is fine, insinuating that they're a social reactionary or even anti-Semetic without something concrete is not.
Amber is a Succ, she’s not on the left. This wall of text to defend your parasocial friend is besides the point, Amber consistently takes the furthest right position she can without getting exiled by her friend group - themselves a bunch of Brooklyn social chauvinists.
She’s the right-wing of the left-wing of capital. She’s the furthest right you can be and still be a social democrat, and social democrats are rightwing chauvinists.
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But Amber Defense Squad are all chads of course?
What’s more pathetic? Calling out opportunism when you see it? Or debasing yourself online and twisting yourself into knots to defend one single person you have grown attached to?
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Amber Stans in this thread are only making two points: 1) We only hate Amber because she’s a woman and are misogynists and 2) Wow dude why do you care so much?
Both are bad faith. I’m the only one here making actual points about her positions and politics.
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Point to me ever being wrong or being a lib and I will self immolate
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Awh thank you sweaty ☺️
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That’s a yikes, maybe tell your dog to read Marx
Ah yes, the best way to achieve socialism is to take the small slice of America that's to the left of Bernie and divide it up even further. I'm sure we'll have the means of production in hand any day now.
The best way to achieve socialism is the violent seizure of the means of production by the organized working class, something that Amber and her Jacobin clique fight against. They fight against socialism through their rhetoric and actions. They are not on our side.
If you want to win, you need to recognize who is even defending your interests or on your side of the battle. Refusal to recognize an enemy does not make them your friend, it makes you vulnerable and naive.
And you plan on achieving this by alienating a significant percentage of people who are to the left of Bernie, a candidate who was to the left of the most of the Democratic Party? Lmfao good luck
No significant portion of the working class gives a shit about Amber. They don’t even know who she is.
Failure to oust opportunists and grifters will actually alienate a much greater percentage of the growing proletariat movement than allowing them to fester will
Trust me, a working class black man gives no shits about the Amber defense squad and is actually more alienated by the white, upper class character of the “left”
If you're willing to cast out someone who is an actual labor organizer, who is actively radicalizing people, and who is one of the farthest-left people in the broadest possible definition of the political mainstream, you're never going to get anywhere. You're not fighting a protracted people's war with the dozen True Leftists who agree with you 100%.
If you want to organize a significant number of people to do real things, you need to talk to people who are light years farther to the right than wherever you think Amber is. You have to talk to libs, you have to talk to apolitical people who have all sorts of embedded reactionary views, you have to talk to some chuds at least to soften the opposition. And at some point you're going to have to rely on some of those people for help.
No revolution in history has succeeded by allying with the Social Democrats. They have always been betrayers and opportunists.
There will be no revolution in the US without a huge radicalizing shift from conditions. This is how the communist movement will form and gain momentum. It has nothing to do with diluting Marxism to accept revisionist succs.
You are distorting history and ideology and class interests to accommodate your podcast friends and it’s pathetic
I keep forgetting that 100-year-old European revolutions in dramatically different political environments are a perfect predictor of whatever the hell is going on in America today
I keep forgetting that if your definition of people you can't work with includes 99% of the population that definition might be useless
Oh yeah Marxism is fake, we can’t have any idea what’s going on and we have to start leftism over from scratch! I am very smart
Marxism is a science, not a prophecy, and Marx was empirically wrong about quite a bit. Famously, he never thought socialism would first take root in Russia.
If you treat Marxism as a science with specific, limited predictive power, you see that movement towards socialism takes different forms in different environments. If you repeat an experiment with all the same variables you should get the same result, but if you change a million variables translating the theory from 19th-century Germany to 21st-century America you might get something different. And if you look at actual, successful revolutionaries you see this pattern borne out: Lenin and Mao didn't treat Marx like holy writ; they took what Marx got right and then wrote revolutionary manuals of their own for their own specific environments. The whole concept of scientific socialism is that you don't just dogmatically follow the past, and the whole concept of socialism in general is that we can actually change the world for the better and aren't just slaves to what came before us.
Revisionists always twist Marxism by using the “not a dogma” idea, but weirdly enough the “modern new Marxism” is always a petty bourgeois reformism. What a coincidence?! And what’s weirder still is that Mao and Lenin both had to fight against revisionist reformists too! How weird?
Your complete inability to see where you fit into history is pretty funny.
Yeah Succs betrayed us the last 100 times, but this time it’s different because of MaTeRiAl CoNdItIoNs!
How can your 12-person protracted people's war fail with a leader this charismatic?
Weird how every communist revolution is composed of the masses and millions of people, and is opposed by the social democrats.
But truly America is exceptional and different and special so we need to accept the social democrats this time!
I bet they don't get that big by denouncing 99% of the population as so far right that they'll inevitably betray the revolution
Lenin routinely denounced and ousted social reformists. As did every communist leader.
We've covered this. 2020 America is pretty fucking different than 1917 Russia, and it doesn't matter if you're ideologically perfect if you refuse to work with 99% of the population.
I'm done here, champ. Go chase your tail with one of your twelve buddies you're starting that protracted people's war with.
You don’t have to ally with them when you’re seizing power, but they provide a necessary service in spreading and mainstreaming left wing ideas.
You’ve got to till the soil if you want to plant the seed.
They spread misconceptions and distortions of Marxism, not Marxism itself. Radicalizing people in the imperial core and in the west is way more difficult than radicalizing oppressed and colonized people partially because they have all these filters.
A poor Ugandan worker goes straight to Marxism-Leninism as soon as they radicalize.
A poor American worker has to go through social democracy, anarchism, ultraleft positions and then finally sometimes arrive at Marxism-Leninism.
The so-called “mainstreaming of leftist ideas” is actually the spreading of bourgeoise distortions.
lol ok buddy
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Some folks seem to want idols and get very upset when podcast hosts don't live up to that expectation.
No some people are just sick and tired of social democrat reactionaries and opportunist grifters infesting leftist spaces and your refusal to oust them
Oh well then as the CEO of the leftist space that is the podcast Chapo Trap House, I will immediately go fire Amber
shes fired
Just stop defending her and ridicule her openly would be satisfactory