According to the standard account, capitalism—whatever your criticisms of it—is synonymous with freedom. Other systems, we are told, necessitate central plan...
There's something to be said about driving people down a path that capitalist propaganda isn't as full of thought terminating cliches and using the contradictions there to radicalize. I still think it's important to at least acknowledge that monopoly formation is a natural consequence of capitalism though.
Yeah that's the usefulness of the video and the Gravel institute in general. That's why it's good for them to make these types of videos rather than there being nothing out there. Would it be a lot cooler if the videos were Marxism 101? Maybe, but I don't think it would have anywhere near the same outreach due to all the propaganda our there. That's why I said it's more of a pipeline to get left leaning ideas out there
I mean, scroll down and look at the comments just in chapo.chat. Did no one upbearing these posts not pick up on any of these criticisms? Do we need to have a struggle session about how this "anti-corporate" agitation is pro-capitalist fakery?
There's something to be said about driving people down a path that capitalist propaganda isn't as full of thought terminating cliches and using the contradictions there to radicalize. I still think it's important to at least acknowledge that monopoly formation is a natural consequence of capitalism though.
Yeah that's the usefulness of the video and the Gravel institute in general. That's why it's good for them to make these types of videos rather than there being nothing out there. Would it be a lot cooler if the videos were Marxism 101? Maybe, but I don't think it would have anywhere near the same outreach due to all the propaganda our there. That's why I said it's more of a pipeline to get left leaning ideas out there
I mean, scroll down and look at the comments just in chapo.chat. Did no one upbearing these posts not pick up on any of these criticisms? Do we need to have a struggle session about how this "anti-corporate" agitation is pro-capitalist fakery?