Reading Imperialism right now, and he still rags on Kautsky, Lenin's such a petty dude
Like, I understand and agree, but Lenin would have absolutely been a reverse Ben Shapiro if he lived in our era, it's great
Certain bourgeois writers (now joined by Karl Kautsky, who has completely abandoned the Marxist position he had held, for example, in 1909)
The pure hatred Lenin has for Kautsky is fucking hilarious to me
Reading Imperialism right now, and he still rags on Kautsky, Lenin's such a petty dude
I have often been struck by this reading all those 19th-century and 20th-century guys in general.... Marx beefing with Proudhon.... Stalin beefing with everybody
Surely the right is the main target?
Reminds me of Stallman and how he obsessively hates on "open-source" instead of focusing on targeting proprietary software.
I think this is more a matter of course when you don't have the internet. Correct ideas among generally aligned people are more important when you're already generally aligned, Lenin's target audience wasn't really right-wingers.
It's an artifact of time, you see constant leftist infighting even now, because it is easier to get impassioned about people who mostly agree with you than it is to get impassioned about people entirely divorced from your worldview and conclusions.
Having a main target doesn't mean you don't have other targets, and refuting incorrect ideas is important when belief in these ideas is what holds a movement together and allows it to preserve its revolutionary character. When you have an actual movement out there in the world, you can't just be ambivalent about the positive aspect of your theory so that everyone can hold hands and get along. You need to organize a certain way and not others, just as you cannot sail a ship simultaneously in two directions. Lenin and company were completely correct in trying to correct the course of their respective ships.
Smh can't believe Lenin stole Hakim's face and turned it into grayscale
His channel would be like 9 Kautsky hate videos per 1 banger on something else, and that one banger would have a jab at Kautsky at some point.
I would subscribe to his Patreon
didn't Lenin have a better command of English than this? I know he at least had an Irish accent
Lenin English was pretty average, at least compared to German and French.
would be up to.