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This was very useful in my union. Thank you comrades

I know that this video is old, but as someone that is an ancom i have to say that reading MLM and Anarchist texts is like being a child of divorced parents and every time you go to one parents house you just hear them complain about the other parent. That is to say that Anarchists and MLMs have a lot to learn from each other, both in theory and in practice and even though they won't suddenly agree with each other after that, this kind of mutual understanding will make a unified block against capitalism, fascism and the far-right much easier and more efficient.

I wouldn't call Trump's fascist dogwhistling and general apathy towards the far-right a "liberal exaggeration". One can criticize liberal's inability to stop the rise of fascism while at the same time acknowledging that the US state, irrespective of which major party is in power, has always enabled it.

Great to hear from him again. He's such a fountain of knowledge and first hand experience. I like how he firmly indicates what he know from firsthand experience, what he knows mostly from study, and what are just hunches on his part. Great example for others engaging in analysis and criticism.

Why did i get an ad for why marxism is a recipie for distater on this video?

Lusordos book explains well these western marxist and their never coming revolution.

Ahhh... hmmmm.. negative and positive to combine and create a flashpoint for energy ✨️.. hmmmm.. 🤔

I don't think anyone who has some understanding of fascism and its history wouldn't overlook things happening in USA as liberal exaggeration

as a communist I gotta disagree. this won't spur any kind of revolution and in the meantime a lot of people are being round up to be shipped to what is, let's be real, a concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay where they could endure who knows what horrors. I was one of those "trump, kamala, what's the difference" people, but I was wrong. she would've been cruel to migrants and refugees, but not to this degree.

“Lets not be Monday morning quarterbacks” is a crazy line love the interview

Why start a factory if you want to control it?

All this is true bit as parents who know this should teach the child that just cause others do it dosnt mean you should as well. Teach them to not follow behind others unquestionably and to think freely and openly to change if it is good for you and others reinforcing personal individualsm and thinking about others in a egalitarian way. Cause what might not be good for you might be good for someone else. Just cause its bad or evil dosnt mean we withhold it from our children we must educate them and be the guiding hands

MLM isnt universally applicable but it is so strategically if necessary

I don't know, i wouldn't underestimate the collaborationism in Trumps victory. Maybe more of a Bonapartiste but when in for a shitshow.

"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ―natural superiors, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ―cash payment‖."

People like him are why we fought a war between 1939 and 1945. Does he realize Trump's got concentration camps up and running?

National democratic movement Is what ronald Reagan said It the best interest of the people to have a freesociety and democratic (Liberal way) With people democracy (not a Marxist) As of For Of By The people Means smaller government Limited constitutional republic Free market economy And human rights as property rights and property rights as human rights But if it is revolutionary against tyrant like communist fascist and dictator That would national democratic revolution It different from marx and joma

you said a lot of nothing

The american regime IS fascist whoever the party in power is, this is the correct approach

What i like about Maoists, is that they're more likely to actually do stuff other than a book club. If you see folks stocking a community refrigerator, starting a community garden, doing a distro event, offering free skillshare workshops, or firearms/first aid training, ect, basically any active mutual aid or community defense org, they're almost guaranteed to be anarchists or Maoists. Every other ML group I've met in person does at most a book club and occasional sign waving. Anarchists and Maoists actually do stuff. (In the US*)

58:00 capitalist art and proletarian art

What’s his accent?

Thank you!

Funnily enough this analysis is essentially the exact same as that of the RCA/RCI, which is Trotskyist.

This dude is great 😆😁.

imma put this quote here "Despite the howls of the left and the waving of the bloody shirt of anti-fascism in defense of democracy, we know that democracy is fascism and fascism is democracy, the two go hand in hand and are both as American as apple pie. The only way to stop the dictatorship of capital is the dictatorship of the proletariat. What we have here is a perfect demonstration of the fusion of capital, democracy and fascism. Regardless of whether it takes place in its fascist or democratic guise, for the continued accumulation of capital the bourgeois will sacrifice all supposedly high ideals and noble principles by unleashing cruelty, carnage, destruction and misery on all forms of life on the planet to ensure a constant return on their sacred investments. Democracy, in fact, covers the absolute and totalitarian rule of the bourgeois class dictatorship and to justify imperialist military adventures. So fundamentally nothing changes with the return of Trump, but only the continuation of a trajectory traced long before him." - il partito communista internazionale

But what many of us Marxists saw was how MAGA Nazism was going to evolutionarily end up at Nazism. Nazis started in 1922 and didn’t become the EVIL Nazis until 1936. They evolved. Hell, they hosted the world Olympics. That’s all I’m saying. We saw the writing on the wall that MAGA was eventually going to end up Nazi and here we are

you can tell the democrat arent serious about their fascism accusations because theyre still doing the "reaching across the aisle" shit. america IS fascist but it has been for a long time.

Thank you! The liberal echo chamber has been driving me crazy

Imperialism is the end stage of capitlism but I would add fascism to that as well

I don't think they were wrong AT ALL to call trump a fascist and maga a fascist movement. It basically fits all the criteria for one, as per Ur-fascism. and now that he's in office, all the executive orders he's been doing are very strongly supporting this. Not to mention Elon Musk, a neonazi, has such close proximity to Trump now. anyone who might've been saying the madison garden rally was a deliberate reeference to the nazi rally in 1939 is being silly though. But personally i never saw anyone say that. Most i saw was people drawing the comparison, which is honestly not a unfair comparison. The democrats' message, or rather lack thereof, and so frustrating. cuz how hard could it be to have a counter-narrative to fascism? i mean seriously bro it shouldn't be THAT hard

disagree. fasc echoes fasc. it wasn't "Not at all a reference" it was lowkey a friggin reference AND a show of power/popularity. like its both

You are downplaying a real situation due to the overreaction of liberals to the wrong stuff. Trump has full control of Big Tech, the Supreme Court, the Congress and of course the far right wing. If you need a rally or Musk's Nazi salute to realize that democracy is at stake in the US, you are late to the party. By the way Democrats did not govern the state with any more democratic values. The US is an oligarchy centuries now.

The Media is a meme.

But it is also true that fascist elements may develop at any time forming the most reactionary wing of the bourgeoisie

Most definitely not a liberal or DSA, but to quote Rockhill: the U.S. did not defeat fascism in WWII, it discreetly internationalized it. So in his most coherent forms, Trump is an incompetent fascist, with an overt Christian fascist underling eager to tag-in. The libs aren’t entirely off base in this regard, but something something broken clock. I’m all for unrelenting optimism, but it’s hard to think of this being a “great time.”

this is true

This is a very profound insight. When he talks on contradiction between party leadership vs people’s supervision the way to overcome that I think lies in direct democracy: referendum and sortition

TOTAL NO COMMUNISM RUSSIA⛔

~19:28 Really glad he said that; it's nice for someone to say "that's my guess" when they're not as familiar with something. When I saw what the chapter was called, and where it was going, I was like "Oh, great - here we go." And I was basically right, but that acknowledgement made me less annoyed, heh. I don't think that overall assessment of Stalin is very accurate at all. Hell, some of that stuff discussed was more like Khrushchev and his clique, and beyond. Not Stalin.

What about the murder and torture of anyone who disagreed with him? He went out of his way to imprison, torture, and murder homosexuals. He was not a hero at all.

Amazing guest. Thanks so much for hosting!

Great interview. Thanks for hosting Mr. Engst!

I’ve read Fred’s work and he’s a good writer

As an anarchist, I consider Marxists my allies. I think we have the same end goals, we just propose different means to get there.

This was such good interview!

Thank you for this! I've been catching up on Fred's videos ever since I saw part 1 of this interview a couple months ago. I wish someone could link up Fred and Hasan Piker, it would be interesting to get Fred on Hasan's stream.

Very important topics!

Hope you make video on Trump invasion threats on Panama with Marxist lens