In the popular discourse "libertarian" means "right-libertarian", and yeah, right-libertarians deserve to be dunked on. There is some actual sectarianism here sometimes, which isn't good, but on the other hand, there are internet personalities like Vaush and NJR who call themselves anarchists but are practically libs or socdems, hurting our cause. Also, when more sincere anarchists like Noam Chomsky have bad liberal takes like lesser-evilism, I think it's fair to criticize them for it.
Youtube is becomeing a big problem IMO. I can agree to disagree with someone like Sam Seder for pushing social democracy, but Vaush is either a psyop or an irresponisble jack ass. We need to actively discredit fools like him.
I am a marxist. I agree with Lenin on most things and I get a lot of inspiration from Mao.
Vaush is not a principled anti-imperialist. I am cool with anarchists, but I am more than happy to go toe to toe with an anarchist over imperialism related issues.
If you just prefer decentralized politics over demcent or whatever, you do you as far as I am concerned.
In the popular discourse "libertarian" means "right-libertarian", and yeah, right-libertarians deserve to be dunked on. There is some actual sectarianism here sometimes, which isn't good, but on the other hand, there are internet personalities like Vaush and NJR who call themselves anarchists but are practically libs or socdems, hurting our cause. Also, when more sincere anarchists like Noam Chomsky have bad liberal takes like lesser-evilism, I think it's fair to criticize them for it.
Youtube is becomeing a big problem IMO. I can agree to disagree with someone like Sam Seder for pushing social democracy, but Vaush is either a psyop or an irresponisble jack ass. We need to actively discredit fools like him.
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makes it pretty clear that he uses Marx and Kropotkin purely for aesthetics as he either hasn't read or doesn't agree with either
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX9_kXYMSck
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I am a marxist. I agree with Lenin on most things and I get a lot of inspiration from Mao.
Vaush is not a principled anti-imperialist. I am cool with anarchists, but I am more than happy to go toe to toe with an anarchist over imperialism related issues.
If you just prefer decentralized politics over demcent or whatever, you do you as far as I am concerned.
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NJR?
Sorry comrade, Nathan J Robinson, journalist for Current Affairs.
Thanks