A most revealing - in many ways - panel discussion. There is a very long standing issue of "leftism" " radicalism" and how can /should it be defined and against what and why. What does it mean to be of the left ? Fundamentally a priori it must, yes must, mean independence politically from all the capitalist parties, from the capitalist state -indeed the necessity is for the wc to take political control of it and smash it as part of the transformation of society - and an understanding of the necessity to go beyond capitalism. Not to conserve the status quo in some reformed "radicalised" manner. If these basic categories are not part of the goal, the ideological utopia, in the contextual meaning of the word, then it seems perfectly logical that one actually is of the right not the left at all. It really is time to stop the pretence of self contratulatory calling oneself a marxist, a socialist , a leftist. Of course that won't happen in most cases so they have to be called out. Here in this video the lack of self awareness is astounding from most on the panel, almost delusional, but there again they are apparently "leftists"
A most revealing - in many ways - panel discussion.
There is a very long standing issue of "leftism" " radicalism" and how can /should it be defined and against what and why.
What does it mean to be of the left ?
Fundamentally a priori it must, yes must, mean independence politically from all the capitalist parties, from the capitalist state -indeed the necessity is for the wc to take political control of it and smash it as part of the transformation of society - and an understanding of the necessity to go beyond capitalism. Not to conserve the status quo in some reformed "radicalised" manner.
If these basic categories are not part of the goal, the ideological utopia, in the contextual meaning of the word, then it seems perfectly logical that one actually is of the right not the left at all.
It really is time to stop the pretence of self contratulatory calling oneself a marxist, a socialist , a leftist. Of course that won't happen in most cases so they have to be called out.
Here in this video the lack of self awareness is astounding from most on the panel, almost delusional, but there again they are apparently "leftists"
Wow. The sound quality is really, really bad...what happened?
The mics going into a speaker which is then being picked up, reverbed to hell, by a shitty mic built into the camera, probably a phone