Philosophical Research:RatingHub/YT/SocialismForAll
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Rating subject: YouTube video channel @SocialismForAll
- This is a Marxist theory channel.
- This channel attempts to describe a generic method for building properly-Marxist workers' movements without taking the side of particular named Marxisms. Because it is already attempting to take a "meta" position on Marxism, it should be rated for accuracy to the material world and given bad marks for all failures to describe what is actually happening and what people can actually expect on the ground.
- This channel contains audiobooks. Parts of the channel constitute a reading list, which may be worth coding as Items.
- This channel mentions Lenin, Stalin, and Hoxha in the context of relevant theorists or sources.
- field, scope, or group [Item]
- mainstream Marxism-Leninism
- popular level material
- approximate number of entries
- pronounced ~1,000
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Motifs[edit]
- Right-Liberalism is the shovel dream of capitalism [1]
- Socialist transition is not New York being affordable / Socialism is not New York being affordable [1]
- Free buses don't lead to Bolshevism [1]
- killing of Indonesian Communists 1965-1966 [1]
- killing of Allende [1]
- Zohran Mamdani is not using Marxist methods [1] -> I haven't been following news much but yeah, I already believe it.
- Trotskyism is the shovel dream of small owners / Trotskyism is the shovel dream of Artisan types / Trotskyism is the shovel dream of the petty bourgeosie [2] -> I think this is only half the explanation but I can't disagree. I think you have to model it as the shovel dream of a separate unique cluster of "petty bourgeoisie", a subpopulation as a countable object, to where there can be plural groups which fail to unify because they're fundamentally separate objects. but at that point you've basically got it.
Audiobooks[edit]
- Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in Disguise (Olgin 1935) [2]
Additional remarks[edit]
- This channel tends to look harshly on figures that describe large social-democracy organizations as The Bureaucracy. [1]