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Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024 (yewtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The audience of the Gotha Program was essentially the same as JT’s audience.

I really don't think the working class of 1875 Germany viewed the political landscape through the same Overton Window and culturally endemic Red Scare as JT's audience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The proletariat as a class is materially unchanged, for the most part, since the time of that party. The particular political situation does not change the basic theory and the necessity for revolution over reform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It changes how you effectively educate. It affects how receptive people are to an idea.

And the delivery methods are materially different. If you pointedly espouse revolution over reform on YouTube you'll get the video deleted or suppressed and/or your account suspended.

But if the proletariat really is materially unchanged, you could always bypass YouTube and distribute pamphlets. The proletariat's relationship to the means of production is unchanged, their material conditions have changed dramatically in the past 150 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of Marxists on YouTube who do not concede revolution. Maybe some are too small to grab attention, but there are larger channels like Geopolitical Economy Report who routinely talk about current events from a Marxist perspective, and occasionally talk theory, without such compromise.

The need for revolution is more or less standard Marxism, so it feels backward that I should be explaining that perspective — why do you think we must educate from a social-democratic perspective? Blaming the Red Scare seems like an excuse to me. If someone clicks a video about socialism, they're either open to learning, or they're not. At that crucial point you have to be convincing, not wheel out the usual arguments about fairness that every single Westerner has heard for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

JT’s videos are great as a gateway to socialism for the most propagandized Westerners.

Your words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Okay? “Videos” in general, not this particular one in every aspect…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Who cares how you view the Overton Window differently? Sorry but I must quote Lukács

In contrast to Germany, the U.S.A. had a constitution which was democratic from the start. And its ruling class managed, particularly during the imperialist era, to have the democratic forms so effectively preserved that by democratically legal means, it achieved a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism at least as firm as that which Hitler set up with tyrannic procedures. This smoothly functioning democracy, so-called, was created by the Presidential prerogative, the Supreme Court’s authority in constitutional questions, the finance monopoly over the Press, radio, etc., electioneering costs, which successfully prevented really democratic parties from springing up beside the two parties of monopoly capitalism, and lastly the use of terroristic devices (the lynching system). And this democracy could, in substance, realize everything sought by Hitler without needing to break with democracy formally. In addition, there was the incomparably broader and more solid economic basis of monopoly capitalism.