Philosophical Research:RatingHub/YT/communistsofamerica

Rating subject: YouTube video channel @communistsofamerica

• This is a Trotskyist theory channel.
• The content is somewhere between popular level and academic level in difficulty.
• This channel attempts to analyze recent history in the sense of "the past 2-10 years" without fixating on weekly news events. It may be choosing to analyze history through models or hypotheses specific to Trotskyism, and must be rated accordingly. This does not absolve it from problems such as historical inaccuracies.
• This channel mentions "Ted Grant" in the context of relevant theorists or sources.

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Revolutionary Communists of America

field, scope, or group [Item]

Z–617 (pronounced Z–617) [IV] [Z] (pronounced [IV] [Z]) Trotskyism (top-level category) 1:(-)1:(-)1

approximate number of entries

170

overall rating

U / Unknown 1:(-)1:(-)1

Rating sheet

contained work

World Capitalism Is Collapsing (Marx was Right) (video 170)

rating

U / Unknown 1:(-)1:(-)1

tests

[P] (pronounced [P]) Historical accuracy test [rating] [P] (pronounced [P]) "Dirac test" [rating]

"Object" [pass]

"Question-begging" [fail]

4

contained work

Where is America Going? (video 169)

rating

U / Unknown 1:(-)1:(-)1

tests

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0

contained work

How to Stop the ICE Attacks (video 168)

rating

U / Unknown 1:(-)1:(-)1

tests

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0

contained work

Trump isn't a Fascist — Here's Why (video 167)

rating

NG / Not Good 1:(-)1:(-)1

tests

"Historical" [fail]

"Object" [pass]

"Question-begging" [fail]

"Sunny" [fail]

4

Remarks

• "proletarian Bonapartism" - What is this? Does it even exist? - Fails Sunny test.
• "The [US] petty-bourgeois layer has been whittled down substantially" [1] - Ignores the role of geography in creating local Artisanal cesspools and disconnecting "consolidated" corporations from actual geographical settlements. Fails question-begging test.
• Descriptions of world economic history were confusing and difficult to verify or falsify. At the same time, talk brought up an interesting point about countries chunk-competing over the world consumer base. [2]
• Recent talks did an excellent job of portraying Trotskyist theories of populations as composed of material objects. [3]

Motifs

• [IV] [S] proletarian Bonapartism
• [IV] [S2] During the India-Pakistan conflict the Communist Party of India supported the bourgeoisie [4] -> I have no clue whether this is true but I have to doubt it. I think we've got a clash between Trotskyism and Maoism here?
• [S2] The United States wanted to break up Russia [5]

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