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Roderic Day talking about this site

I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol

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Roderic Day talking about {Hexbear}

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  • I would take this guy more seriously if he had any amount of engagement.

    We need a higher quality of critic. Is there any chance we can convince one of the Krassensteins to complain about this place?

  • Nah his last comment is 100% spot on. Though that is the site culture most people want to be fair.

    Also, I will continue quoting Samir Amin until some of you actually start reading theory.

    • What of Samir Amin in particular? I haven't read too much theory recently after a hard burnout but I'd be down to read whatever you think is relevant

      • Oh "The liberal virus" is a much shorter work and is a pretty good introduction to his style, to see if you like it or not. Honestly I think people should recommend it over Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, the latter is full of random digs at "market Stalinists".

      • It really depends on what you want, more social or more economic analysis. At the end of the day, it's all interlinked. You cannot truly seperate the social from the economic.

        Though I think that "Eurocentrism" and his critique of culturalism should be required reading everywhere. Though "The liberal virus" is a much shorter work and could be a good introduction.

        For more a more modern economic focused work, there's "Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value". Be warned though that there is a lot of mathematics involved, and you will have had to have read Marx prior to try to understand it.

        You don't have to read or watch anything if you don't want to, and if you're burnt out, a lot of his long from lectures from the past are available on YouTube.

        I think this interview series is very short and relevant today

      • What of Samir Amin in particular?

        I believe she has a suit of power armor from the Chozo and fights Space Pirates on the reg.

  • this mirrors the same angle when people got disillusioned that the leftist comedy podcast didn't want to involve itself in "actual politics" and was content to just do comedy podcast stuff; as if them doing it would mean that everyone listening to the comedy podcast would transmute them into contributors to the cause rather than passive listeners to some guys making some jokes

    same here, why isn't the pig poop balls website (that sprung around said comedy podcast) more involved into "actual politics" therefore making my posting be active contribution to the politics of the nation, rather than a place to post pig poop balls countdown gifs to the libs wandering in telling us about whatever insane shit radio free asia made up this week

    • this comment like all my comments on this site are just my little part towards the emancipation of a revolutionary working class. not that i'm some kind of hero of the working class or anything and i will vigorously debate anyone who would call me that. it is just the humble contribution of that kind of person who doesn't ask for greatness but on whom it is thrusted. excuse me i must go stand in the hall by the bathroom with my fist in the air while I listen to another rendition of the internationale. 3 times every day i find a new version to listen to. it really keeps me in touch with comrades around the world and prevents burn out while i do this gruelling but important work. then i will return and refresh my notifications.

  • How some people put this pseud on a platform is beyond me. He falls into the pit of most Western Marxists where they are either completely idealist and treat Marxism as some literary analysis or completely mechanistic who thinks that even discussing the role of ideology or conscious human activity is "idealist." In other words, his analysis is not particularly dialectical, only instead of erring on the side of idealism like the majority of leftists, he errs on the side of materialism. But you don't get points for being undialectical just because you aren't an idealist.

    And he's overall not very bright either. There's that embarrassing thread about why sitcoms don't have school shooter episodes and instead of tying this to the production of sitcoms and how syndication, which forms the lion share of a sitcom's profit, requires sitcom plots to reset back to a status quo at the end of each episode, he had some dumbass contrarian explanation on moralism (another favorite word abused by the mechanists) or some other bullshit. That massive tl;dr blog post on how propaganda shouldn't be characterized as brainwashing falls apart with the trivial observation that Burgerlanders are orders of magnitude more brainwashed than their imperial core peers while at the same time living in worse material conditions. Can't shoehorn in dependency theory or unequal exchange to explain why Burgerlanders are more susceptible to propaganda.

    • Alright, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. In a world where Western "Marxists" are largely ultra LARP freaks who sell out to Western academia and University Presses to publish anticommunist propaganda, Roderic is a comrade and is a genuine AES-upholding ML.

      His work on RedSails is an invaluable compendium of literature given how other leftist writing repository like Marxists.org are hijacked by Trots.

      People need to understand that just because someone is a proper ML doesn't mean you'll be best friends with them. Expecting that is the fastest way to being disillusioned in real world organizing and praxis, when you inevitably meet some ideological comrade you don't necessarily vibe with. The history of socialism in praxis is filled with people who both learned, and failed to learn, to acknowledge others who are near entirely ideologically aligned yet clash with on a personal and social level.

      Roderic has an abrasive online personality and has made L takes on frankly tangential subjects through his Twitter debatebro addiction. This just makes him another case of the 70%/30%.

      Additionally, his thesis on Redsails that emphasizes the buy-in nature of Western propaganda, if that is what you are referring to, is an absolutely cogent interpretation of the dynamics between propaganda and its recipients in the Western paradigm.

      • As abrasive as he can be, his brainwashing thesis has been proven true right in front of our eyes the past 6 months with Israeli propaganda. It’s so casually lazy and racist, the people who “believe” it are obviously CHOOSING to because it makes them feel good.
        It was immediately obvious Israel bombed the Al-Shifa hospital but we (by which I mean westerners broadly) spent like, a week or more debating whether or not it was a misfired Hamas rocket? Give me a break. By all means critique Roderic, he genuinely welcomes it, but that is easily one of his strongest contributions.

      • Additionally, his thesis on Redsails that emphasizes the buy-in nature of Western propaganda, if that is what you are referring to, is an absolutely cogent interpretation of the dynamics between propaganda and its recipients in the Western paradigm.

        I've only read this piece once so should probably revisit it, but I honestly didn't find it all that persuasive. Yes, the ideas presented in it may be applicable to a subset of the western populous but certainly not universally.

        It is an interesting thesis that is worthy of consideration though, I'll give him that.

    • Is this even true though? I assume the "imperial core peers" you are referring to are Europeans, and if so, I would categorically reject the idea that they are "orders of magnitude" less brainwashed. What is your reasoning behind this statement? Because to me, the way europeans talk about muslim immigrants, or the roma, or the legacy of the soviet union, echoes all the same brainrot that seems to inflict the burgerlanders.

      • We're talking about a population where a proportion thinks Covid is a Chinese bioweapon that's also fake and is only like the flu btw or how Jesus rode on a dinosaur which is why we need to continue to send weapons to the Zionist entity in order to bring about the rapture.

  • could hexbear posting be a… treat?😰

    • Unironically. This is a fuck-around, weapons of mass shitposting-- expecting a full blown organization of even Lemmygrad, which takes pains to be seen as 'a serious instance' is just rank idealism at best, and asking for fed-assisted adventurism at worst; never fuckin mind expecting it of Hexbear.

  • Some blogger discovered J Sakai's account and simply will not stop talking about it.

    • Leave Sakai outta this; I already have to verbally fistfight hella settlers who wanna run their mouth about "wah he uses a pseudonym" like pseudonymous publishing isn't kind of a thing for anyone with reason to believe they'd catch reprisal for their work... Which Sakai's work always catches reprisal from aggrieved crackers anyway

      • Wasn't insulting him. I was saying the hexbear poster was J Sakai because they were saying that you learn to be leftist by experiencing the exploitation of the imperial core, not just engage with it academically. Roderic is the blogger. It's a pointed albeit simplistic summary of Settlers.

        This was a broader reference to Hexbear's Settlers struggle session we had years ago. My posts contain a depth of meta, irony, and references to shared experiences.

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