I fucking told you hoes that we have to talk to Chuds and I got eaten alive with a dull knife in the comments. Adam Curtis on latest chapo closes with an ill description of why we must, if our intent to change the world is genuine.
Yes, yes, vindication is a self-oriented fantasy that obscures the truth, I fucking know. But still, happy to shove in your collective face.... also please think about it
I listened to the episode, and Adam Curtis has a lot more shit takes than good ones. His central talking point is that leftism has no clear vision for the future, and only represents dissatisfaction with the present. What we actually lack is a clear vision for how to destroy the existing power structures that are making our extremely clear and well-articulated visions for the future impossible to implement. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
I stopped listening about 10 minutes in whm he kept referring to the democrats as "the left."
Oh shit is that what he was doing? I failed to realize throughout the entire hour. In that case, his critique turns from just wrong, to woefully naive.
More specifically he kept referring to the the centrist neoliberals in the democratic part to be part of a broad political spectrum that includes socialists. He basically subscribes to the view that if you go far enough left incrementally you can create a spectrum from liberalism to socialism.