Motherfucker smirks when he's guilty, he can barely contain his amusement. I think he knows he got away with something

International worker solidarity!!!

I think because their media consumption is gamified. If i post certain things you get down votes and negative comments citing convincing (but fallacious) arguments that make me feel inferior. If I post other things I get positive comments and upvotes that make me feel smart.

Once people get conditioned to it they're basically immune to facts since facts that run contrary to their social conditioning make them feel yucky.

He got brain damage from Harvard

It sounds a lot like "uneven and combined development". Trotsky and Lenin were trying to figure out why if a technologically advanced nation moved all their high tech shit to an underdeveloped backwards country, why did the underdeveloped country remain backward? They realized that technology takes a long time to develop and where it develops and alienates the workers and causes all these social changes that workers organize against and the bourg has to make cultural adjustments...but once its finished you can just take it to a new country where it can be sold to the ruling class along with all the methods of suppression that were learned along the way, and the new tech just strengthens the ruling class in that underdeveloped country.

But it works the other way too. For example, after the failed 1905 Russian revolution, the burgeoning proletariat of Russia looked to workers organizations in more advanced countries and adapted the union form to suit their own purposes. But the Russian bourgeoisie was a joke and wasn't able to organize against the worker orgs, which became the soviets that grew into a dual power rival until they seized power in Feb 1917.

Uneven and combined development is definitely a crucial theory in order to understand historical development.

What kind of nuance do you expect? What common frame of reference do we share that would enable us to communicate nuance? Do you want every HB to explain why people left of the American Democratic party don't support Democrats every time you post "conservative talking point?" Do you need me to explain basic critique to you? How about a recounting of history from the perspective of the workers movement, or a refresher on imperialist hegemony?

Please help me help you understand where we are coming from, because seeing you in every thread posting the same garbo over and over is irritating.

You only post one comment, over and over.

I love this for you. You will be glad this happened.

Oh I have a good one. I worked at a paint store for like 15 years. One day, this guy drives up in a Mercedes, wearing a Burberry scarf, and asks me for "Black Marine Paint." We were a housepaint store so I told him we didn't have it, we didn't sell paint for boats, and what was he wanting to paint. He said he wanted to paint his front door, and the doors at Buckingham palace are painted with black marine paint, and did I know what he meant. I said I didn't know about the doors on Buckingham palace, and he indignantly says, "What?! It famous like the doors of the White House!" I told him I wasn't familiar with the doors of the white house either.

But I start showing him some oil based paint and he seems happy with it. He's about to buy when he asks what he should do to strip the paint off of his door, since its latex and this new paint is oil. His eyes narrow and he skeptically asks me, "can you put latex over oil?" I said sure, if you use a primer. He gets real angry and, as two new customers walk in, screams, "You're a fucking idiot!" storms out and gets into his Mercedes which the two women had parked beside.

They give me a look, I shrug and walk over to help them pick out colors. When they are done they go out to there car, but a minute later come back and ask me I I knew the guy, and to come outside.

Someone, I presume the Burberry guy, had kicked in the door to their car, leaving a huge foot shaped dent. I assume he thought it was my car or something.

I've definitely had bad experiences at that job, but that entitled freak stands out to in my memory years later

His last 2 cushvlogs were the best distilled articulation of his ideas. Matt was instrumental in making me a Marxist and even though I learned more in my book club in 2 weeks than in 2 years of his blog, I would never have joined that book club if it wasn't for him.

I don't listen much anymore, he had a long period where he was exploring metaphysics that I didn't get much from, but now it seems he got what he needed from that line of inquiry, and uses it to strengthen his method rather than just ramble on for 45 minutes about gnosticism and the demiurge.

His ideas on the hedonic treadmill are extremely good and useful, though spending too much time in his headspace makes me think like a cynical podcaster, which as someone who does most of their organizing IRL, has caused some real analytical blindspots. It's usually just a slightly darker turn in my analysis, but its enough to be noticeable and avoided.

Cushvlog is one of my favorite treats. That being said, I have been deeply moved and drastically changed by the words and thoughts of that man, and I'm glad he's still with us as he seems to be at an all time high point in his life, and I have hope for him and his family.

The framing of this is... interesting. I don't know what the Chilean positions are, but its my understanding that he absolutely brought this on because he took no measures to actually defend the country from this kind of inevitable counter revolution. This also happened in Guatemala. If you don't fight them off like in Cuba or the USSR or DPRK or Viet Nam, then that's what they do, this is what the imperialists want, and Pinochet or Batista are just the guys to carry it out. Fuck go back to the Paris commune.

If, after the February revolution, Kerensky had control of the government and not Lenin, then the soviets would have been crushed in the counter revolution. And it would have been clear why it happened, he would have done everything by the rules of the imperialists, and they would have committed some sort of counter revolutionary slaughter anyway. And the dream of the people would have been strangled to death in the nursery, as has happened so many times.

I get where people are coming from, and the values of Allende's Chile are very much my values. My heart aches when I listen to Victor Jara. But there is a valid criticism of Allende to be made, that he did not defend the revolution and he should have known better. What no historical materialism does to a MF.

I'm open to a critique of this position because I didn't realize it was even controversial, let alone considered "reactionary" so please excuse any ignorance on my part. This is not apologia for 9/11