cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4925558

So, back when I was a social-democrat slightly intrigued by communism I tried to listen to “both sides” to form my opinion and so I looked for videos from both communists and anti-communists. Out of the few things I watched I retained mostly, “Debunking every anti-communist argument ever” by spooky scary socialist on the pro-communist side and this series of 3 videos on the anti-communist side:

Marx, responsable des goulags ? La lutte des classes

Critique de la lutte des classes selon Karl Marx

Critique de l’économie selon Karl Marx

Those 3 struck me as relatively convincing at the time (I knew nothing about Marxism whatsoever back then).

Recently, seeing recommended videos from this channel made me look back and wonder how I would see these same videos now as a Marxist-Leninist and after procrastinating it for months I finally decided to re-watch them. And low and behold, they are dumb.

The youtuber makes a big show of explaining his bare minimum knowledge and shaky comprehension of Marx’s writings which makes it looks like he know what he’s talking about to the uninitiated but it’s really mainly the old anti-communist drivel: denying class struggle and the labor theory of value, pretending that communists want a perfect utopia and say “that wasn’t real communism” when AES are brought up, pretending that Marx was an accelerationist, etc…

I would be interested in having other MLs opinions on this brainrot, especially since for better or for worst it has been part of my political evolution.

  • big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    things become different when you learn about the spooky marxism…i was seduced by classic ideas of far-righters about “da joos” being the basic issue and the “true root of evil”, black people apparently being genetically predisposed to crime and all that crap, after looking some books to learn about that “cultural marxism” thing, i thought: "maybe i should read that fella marx, it seems that everything starts with that guy…

    oh boy, it was truly a revelation: “huh? it seems that being an oppressor and looking for profit goes further than race or religion” “it seems that capitalists are not so great as they told me, and the proletariat isn’t just lazy bastards that don’t want to work and being entrepreneurial as those cool rich people!” “wait a minute…this communism thing sounds like i was truly looking for!”