Matt basically thinks that the left Should pursue revolution as their primary and only goal and that is the only way to achieve anything because the system is fuckednand compromise is meaningless. It's a nihilistic take on Trotsky's permanent revolution.
However Matt's major "addition" to this is that revolution is impossible because the people are so alienated by the system they aren't going to revolt and because you should accept no compromise because everything has failed so far the ultimate solution is to embrace nihilism and do nothing.
That's what he was preaching in the early days of lockdown anyway. There are other Trotsky elements too but that's the main thrust. It's nihilistic Trotskyism.
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Matt basically thinks that the left Should pursue revolution as their primary and only goal and that is the only way to achieve anything because the system is fuckednand compromise is meaningless. It's a nihilistic take on Trotsky's permanent revolution.
However Matt's major "addition" to this is that revolution is impossible because the people are so alienated by the system they aren't going to revolt and because you should accept no compromise because everything has failed so far the ultimate solution is to embrace nihilism and do nothing.
That's what he was preaching in the early days of lockdown anyway. There are other Trotsky elements too but that's the main thrust. It's nihilistic Trotskyism.
He was pretty explicitly not saying this but OK. What I took away from it was to focus on local action that seems meaningful to you.
OK in that case it's virtually identical to British Trotskyism and I have even less time for it.
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