S4A rejects China as being AES, which is why I call him an ultra-leftist. For him, China allowing some limited capitalism in the short term for the purposes of rapidly building the productive forces means that China is capitalist, end of story. He fears the scroll.
Edit to add: I’m generally put off by S4A’s vibe of the unearned confidence that comes with chauvinism. He sounds like your standard imperial core white cishet male labor aristocrat who always thinks he knows best, despite having no experience with real-world socialism.
Very much agree. He was my first intro to reading Marxist texts so I appreciate his work, but when I heard him being a white Amerikkkan that rejects the Black Panthers as a “true communist project” in a livestream really pushed his settler communist tendencies to the forefront and I haven’t listened to his livestreams since.
Only slightly related, but Palestine really shows how much of a fool so many of these settler communists are. Even MAGA communists and trotskyists have changed opinions on the resistance to be respected in left leaning spheres at all because of how well documented this genocide is but only third/fourth world nationalists and decolonial Marxists have beliefs where this kind of support was always there. Sure as hell don’t see him talking about Burkina Faso and I’m sure if he did he’d call them non-Marxist because they’d rather look to Sankara than Lenin and they’re supported by “Imperialist Russia”
S4A rejects China as being AES, which is why I call him an ultra-leftist. For him, China allowing some limited capitalism in the short term for the purposes of rapidly building the productive forces means that China is capitalist, end of story. He fears the scroll.
Edit to add: I’m generally put off by S4A’s vibe of the unearned confidence that comes with chauvinism. He sounds like your standard imperial core white cishet male labor aristocrat who always thinks he knows best, despite having no experience with real-world socialism.
Why is trotsky on the scroll… why did you make me look at pictures of TROTSKY
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Very much agree. He was my first intro to reading Marxist texts so I appreciate his work, but when I heard him being a white Amerikkkan that rejects the Black Panthers as a “true communist project” in a livestream really pushed his settler communist tendencies to the forefront and I haven’t listened to his livestreams since.
Only slightly related, but Palestine really shows how much of a fool so many of these settler communists are. Even MAGA communists and trotskyists have changed opinions on the resistance to be respected in left leaning spheres at all because of how well documented this genocide is but only third/fourth world nationalists and decolonial Marxists have beliefs where this kind of support was always there. Sure as hell don’t see him talking about Burkina Faso and I’m sure if he did he’d call them non-Marxist because they’d rather look to Sankara than Lenin and they’re supported by “Imperialist Russia”
Lol really nice scroll of marxism knowledge. Saving!