Essentially do you see any big modern marxist public figures coming in as the “old guard” ages out? Who?
Two people in this thread say that with the internet, we can move away from “big public figures”/“big thinkers”. While I appreciate this optimism, it just sounds very anti-authoritarian, and I quote from Engels On Authority:
Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority.
There are anti-government and anti-“big corp/business” tendencies in the US/West, which I will call “anti-authority” for now. The essense of “anti-authority” in capitalist countries is anti-capitalism, or anti-“dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”, but there is a gap in this logic that stops people from turning into marxists right away, as they might instead become anarchists. This gap in logic will not be closed just by having everyone have access to free information through the internet, as there is too much information to digest, and imperialists will also interfere with the propagation of marxist ideology.
“Anti-authoritarian” sentiments do have positive outcomes, like decentralized technologies (think internet, bittorrent, p2p, fediverse etc.), the open source software movement, but these only serve as tools, they are the means and not the end.
More of just barks & make beliefs, the US system is doomed to no avail but here we are watching it all crumble.
It will only get worse with the economic warfare, Repression/Regression/Chaos/Divide/Disorder.The 4th Reich is a fitting name, they keep destroying progressive movements from the inside anyway.
To What End really, honestly don’t want to know the answer to this question but you gotta ask yourself was it worth it?Check out Ben Norton & Radhika Desai’s work and a recently discovered one for more context:
- https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/
- https://geopoliticaleconomy.org/
- https://youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
- https://youtube.com/@InternationalManifesto
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report/id1621947548
- https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report/3024316
- https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/
- https://youtube.com/@RealProgressives
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macro-n-cheese/id1453085489
- https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/macro-n-cheese/3759825
Decolonised history by Historicly & Deep-State by Aaron Good:
- https://www.historicly.net/
- https://youtube.com/@Historicly
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/historicly/id1435086194
- https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/4013392
- https://americanexception.com/
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-exception/id1617469345
- https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/american-exception/3905903
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Added links & more contentThere are other decent figures who are younger. Vijay Prishad is only 55. We’ve got everyone in the revleft podcast family. In addition, more zoomer centered figures like the deprogram people and hasan.
These are big shoes to fill and they will of course be filled by Bad Empanada and Vaush.
Hi comrade, is something wrong with bad empanada? I watched a few of his and thought it was pretty neat. I am asking because you mention him together with vaush.
I’ve never seen him apologise for furthering the Uighur genocide hoax.