• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    He’s fucking wrong as fuck to call this neoliberal nightmare “Market Socialism”.

    Socialism is when big number go down.

    Capitalism is when big number go up.

    No, I will not explain. It's Econ 101.

  • shitstorm [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Chocolate Rain, some stay dry but others feel the pain."

    The new anthem of the international proletariate?

  • KurdKobein [any]
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    4 years ago

    I get the impression that it's not that WSB starting to "get it", it's just after the GME thing the sub has been flooded by general reddit populace which by nature of being young is generally open to succdem ideas. Most of the WSB old guard, the kind of people who thought Martin Shkreli was based are crying in their new exclusive subs about their community having been destroyed.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The only way that market socialism line makes any sense at all is if he's doing the lib thing of saying that the government giving money to corporations is socialism for the corporations. I was really digging the song until I hit that part, it was like getting rhetorically suplexed.

    • sourcesaregoodfolks [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's almost directly lifted from a common Chomsky talking point. Market discipline for the poor's but endless welfare for the wealthy. I haven't listened to the song yet but folks comments made me immediately think of that framing-- which I would argue is a pretty good one.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The rest of the song's okay, just if you know what market socialism actually is (it's socialism - with markets) that line kind of comes out of nowhere.

        • sourcesaregoodfolks [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I'd lean towards a charitable interpretation that he just misused the term to mean socialism for the markets, if the context supports that take pretty well

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's "socialism is when the government does stuff" which is an obtuse take but also not entirely incorrect. The bourgeois government exists to socialize the costs of capitalism in a market context so in that sense it is "market socialism".

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, absolutely. I've been really disappointed with the response to the WSB episode. It's easy to dismiss them as a bunch of CHUDs, but the subreddit grew from one to ten million over the course of a month - whatever the board's culture was, it's not really relevant to the majority of the people who got involved.

        I think we missed a huge chance to radicalize people, to be honest, and I'm still a little resentful about it.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          I think we missed a huge chance to radicalize people, to be honest, and I’m still a little resentful about it.

          I disagree strongly. It's easy to dismiss them as a bunch of chuds when they go on to defend apartheid and make posts about doing a neo-colonialism that gets 40 000 upvotes. And this is after the massive influx of new people. Just look at this racist post. Do you see any radicalisation potential here? I don't. I see a bunch of racist and ableist redditors gambling their parents money on the stock market.

          • MerryChristmas [any]
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            4 years ago

            How hard have you actually looked? I get why you wouldn't want to wade through all of the garbage, but again, there are 10,000,000 users. The Chapo sub was significantly smaller and explicitly leftist, and racist shit still got posted fairly regularly. Don't forget that /r/stupidpol was birthed from this very community.

            Anyway, I'm not arguing that the potential is still there - I'm arguing that we squandered this opportunity, and if we continue to miss these moments then what are we even trying to accomplish? We need to keep an eye out for the next time something like this is bubbling up and be ready to offer a Marxist perspective from the start.

        • ElGosso [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Even before the GME thing, people there were more receptive to explicitly Marxist class analysis than they were on any mainstream political sub.

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Yeah the "let's try radicalise r/WSB" is by far the most cringe take this site has had. It's a sub filled with racists, ableists and sexists. Just look at this post. So much racism

              • ElGosso [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Ah yes, truly it is impossible to radicalize people who are racist or sexist or ableist and for them to grow past it, only the purest most noble souls may swear the holy oath and join our Chapo Dot Chat revolution

                There are some sound arguments against it but this isn't one of them

                  • ElGosso [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Your point was that they're racist, sexist, and ableist, and thus will not convert to socialism, no?

                    My point is that people who held bad attitudes or engaged in bad behaviors in the past can change - not everyone who says this kinda shit is ready to jump up and join the KKK, for a lot of these people it's just a casual edgelord identifier. Obviously it doesn't make that okay, but those folks can still be radicalized, and a space where people stare into the contradictions of capitalism as a hobby are ripe for it.

  • kronkfresh [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    He's calling the wrong concept market socialism, but that's fine, he's not wrong in the idea at least. And this was in 2011, when it was mostly understood that our debt from China was a big deal. One of the parties talked about it a lot, I don't remember which. It's changed since then. Since O B A M A.

    Great song though, basically nails it. Good on that guy for using meme status to get this out to a million people

  • staplegun [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Talking about some lib shit, hyperfocusing about the use of an inaccurate term in a single line for an otherwise woke as fuck song written a decade ago is pretty on brand, so great job everyone. Dude is fine, just check his twitter if you want some confirmation.