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I’m not even defending means-ends unity, I’m just debunking their shitty arguments. This dude is a rare ML to admit to admit that “real socialism” maintained key elements of capitalism, but as usual refuses to admit any problem with it. They just want to compare the handful of metaphysical propositions dialectical materialists like to repeat, and diss anarchists for not including that nonsense within means-ends unity.

I’m not an anarchist, but this video has some of the best arguments I’ve ever heard from an anarchist. Like, most anarchist content I come across didn’t scratch me at all when I was an ML, but there’s a couple points in here that might have actually made me question. I am able to to this because it was very similar arguments that finally made me let go of “real socialism” as a vacillating left-Trotskyist (back then). Hell, I might have become an anarchist if I listened to this.

If you are an ML I strongly encourage you to give it a listen and see if you can adequately address major points made by it. The only way we can strengthen ourselves theoretically is by encountering good faith arguments and criticizing notions held by yourself and others.

Historically moids would be promiscuous but have a single non-bastard lineage that inherits all the land. More recently there has been a reactionary obsession with nuclear families and biological children with new racist justifications, but ultimately continuing this legacy. Legitimate offspring who aren’t cis or straight are aberrations in this system.

Detransing for procreation and medical gatekeeping for the sake of freezing genetic material wouldn’t be a thing otherwise. One of the numerous ways trans people’s suffering is rooted in the institution of the family.

Utopian socialism is silly and all: fancying that socialism can be premised on a few benevolent elites having good ideas, and emphasizing empty “dreaming of better futures” over actual critique and determination of why socialism is logically necessary for the working class. But ‘Imagine’ is such a beautiful exposition of Utopianism. The vibe is sick as hell: real “a spectre is haunting Europe” type shit. I am referring, of course, to the A Perfect Circle cover, as John Lennon’s original IMO feels like the weak shit it is ideologically. If anything could make me join a phalanstery it would be this song.

“Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
[Refrain]
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

“You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one”

I have written essays on the first erroneous reasoning behind this ideology, but every time Tool’s Aenima comes on, for six minutes and thirty nine seconds, I am a third worldist. It’s a rather epic song about yearning for the US state of California to be engulfed by the ocean. 

“I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend
I want to see it come down
Bring it down
Suck it down
Flush it down”

Seriously, on the question of “100 million dead:” https://ruthlesscriticism.com/blackbook.htm

Something something all small business owners are mini Hitlers. I feel like I’ve been seeing more and more random “SS” acronyms. Not sure if people are too fluent or not fluent enough in Maoist standard English.

“Lenin doesn’t explain how the state withers away.” How can you not see the simply logic.

If class antagonisms then state. If socialist mode of production then class antagonisms disappear. If class antagonisms disappear then there is no reason for a state to exist.

The communists disdain to reveal their views and aims. When asked they claim nothing but prayers for the peace and harmony of the nation. Let the liberals smile with naive willingness to join our coalition. We have nothing to gain but parliamentary seats.

Let us from now on be known as the good-thing-ists. 

Never let someone feel bad about their circumstances. Don’t give them a lecture about the nature of their exploitation. Celebrate the virtue of their hard work, and the way it contributes to the national economy. Tell them they deserve more and you’re in the business of making that happen. 

Use fancy language to make the masses think you are more intelligent than them, but make sure to keep the arguments simple so they can wrap their little skulls around it. Play upon their existing values and ideals. Tell them how great the state you’re going to build is going to be. Explain how it will crack down on the bad guys (“””bankers”””) and reward the good guys (“the people”). Sprinkle in as much nationalism as you need. Anything to get people supporting the trve vanguard party.

Impress people with shows of strength or charity. Demonstrate leadership skills. In no time you will be able to direct them to fulfill your socialist ideals. They will stand in awe at the legitimacy of our new state. In the meantime, just keep them moving. Bring people to protest the current thing, celebrate the great chairmen of the past, or even get them to pay dues.

I’ll leave you with some classic quotes, for the sake of continuity with tradition.

“We have forgotten what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal.” 

“The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.”

“Our only doctrine is action.”

reminder you will never be able to make gnarly groans while still sounding like a woman. picrel is 8 convulsions by crisis