Where they spend 5 minutes talking about the political news. Than spend an hour plus dissecting some shit movie/show no one cares about.
Where they spend 5 minutes talking about the political news. Than spend an hour plus dissecting some shit movie/show no one cares about.
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Eh, he can be a little too left-com for me, but he's certainly well informed historically, I just feel like he's a bit too nihilistic about the capabilities of proletarian movements of today
His nihlism is becuase he studies history. I have the same problem. You end up realizing that human society never corrects before disasters even if they know it's coming.
Plenty of people study history and don't become so nihilistic so I don't think it's just that. I find it hard to imagine Christman in an organiser context, which reminds me of a lot of my academic left-comm type friends who are super well read but just intractably cynical.
Totally agree. Its the form of Marxism you'll find in academies and universities, one detoothed of real power.
To be fair academics are innately detoothed of power because of their class position
We shouldn't forget that a lot of the real work in Universities isn't done just by the tenured professors. Sure, they are the ones that set the overall class position of the university's teachings and the direction of research (and get all the glory), but the actual ground work of propagating that ideology to the student body and out to the world is through exploited graduate students and forever-associate professorships, who are only usually boosted to tenure if they are willing to continue the work and ideology of the currently tenured. Which is why organizing university labor is definitely something that should be a goal for any movement looking to capture an ideological foothold
Yes, but out of these disasters people still remain, and these people are left to pick up the pieces or start anew. Whether or not there will even be a humanity to progress through 100 years from now is debatable but also irrelevant. If we're not organizing and treating situations like there's even a chance for rebuilding then we're only cementing our doom and forever subjugation. This applies even in the face of climate disaster and the fascist scramble that resulted from it. Any voice telling everyone that its already doomed is essentially confirming the suspicions of reactionary christians who are merely awaiting rapture. The entire point of our movement is getting people to realize that we need to act, and be an active and cooperative people if we have any chance of making it through the next couple centuries. Saying we're fucked now is just giving up. Yes, its scary and looks very bleak, but what good is defeatism of the very movements we support?
Some of the disasters no. No one is left the whole society collapses and scatters.
But yeah i agree it's best to try to stop it. But you can't expect nihilist to be the leaders of a movement today really doesn't exist right now. I think that is Matt's main point. That the left is so scattered that their is no center point to launch from.
I mean if your issue is climate change, PSL just had a webinar that was pretty informative of how serious they take the current figures.
EDIT: And yes, I know the PSL has very little sway over the overall public conversation. But that's the whole point, we have to start somewhere.