Trump / Musk is the two-headed avatar of corrupt Capitalism - the final boss - the last stand before it is finally vanquished.
Or a benelli to the face
I think Capitalism is reaching a dead end, just as Feudalism had. We will need a completely different approach, specifically designed to bring prosperity and political agency to every person. A rebuilt constitution that isn't just about political rules, but also economic.
These times will either cause Americans to show the way forward to the globe, or be a disastrous example to avoid repeating. Either way, the American Experiment is reaching a crescendo.
i think you're not wrong for thinking that, hell, it does look like it; But i don't think capitalism is going to end just yet. The Americans have showed to all the world what hyper capitalism is and how it can poison and kill a nation. The fact that we don't know yet of a system to replace the current doesn't give me much hope that we are going to try out anytime soon. What i think might actually happen is that a social democracy might become the way forward is many places (as it already is in some countries today); For some people in the capitalist elite this might actually be a good compromise of keeping the status-quo and changing up the system.
Who knows, maybe after social democracy thrives there might actually be a new system coming.
Wouldn't a lot of our problems go away if worker owned cooperatives became the only legal form of corporation, combined with the abolishment of shareholder investment?
I don’t think the entire system needs to be changed. Just tax appropriately and get rid of free externalities. Companies should pay for pollution or other environmental effects they produce and should be taxed incrementally.
Otherwise you have corporations making millions because of an unfair advantage which is eventually paid by the user or governments.
Literally the majority of the video is just random left-bashing lmao
And then proposing "super-capitalism" as a solution what an absolute clown
Did you watch a different video? He said that reality-challenged tankie spaces aren't able to contribute to a leftist movement that is able to attract workers.
That sounds entirely accurate to me.
tankie spaces aren’t able to contribute to a leftist movement
Right, like I said, left-bashing.
Btw, is Hasan Piker a tankie? Because he bashed him too, and he's by far the largest leftist politics streamer with an enormous influence and broad appeal. But I guess he's not ideologically pure enough for Adam Something so therefore he's a tankie and useless.
His whole way of thinking is entirely idealist, as if creating an ideologically pure movement (ironically, by ditching any semblance of socialism including even the word, in favor of "super capitalism"), the left will automatically win. Nowhere in the video does he discuss any positive vision or any actually strategy other than punching left. Obviously, he serves as nothing but an off-ramp to get people to abandon leftist ideas they might otherwise be inclined towards, the only question is whether he's doing it intentionally or is just a useful idiot of the right.
I think you missed the context. In the video, he meant instead of using "takeover the means of production" use terms that everyday people can understand and relate to. And yes, you're right, the video is indeed left bashing, but for good reason. The whole point of the video is to point out the flaws of the left and put out the need for more organization and less puritanism (also actually knowing history and actions of current regimes)
use terms that everyday people can understand and relate to
Nobody would think "super-capitalism" means "worker ownership of the means of production." It's intentionally misusing language to in the opposite of what it actually means and is understood of in the hope of somehow "gaming" politics through blatant and obvious rhetorical trickery. It's completely ridiculous and would be trivially torn apart by the right if it wasn't so innately ineffective to be beneath their notice and not even worth refuting.
less puritanism
He's more obsessed with purity than anyone, just in the opposite direction. Even when you have a broadly popular figure like Hasan who's clearly valuable and effective in promoting leftist ideas, he still comes after him, completely ignoring the actual reality of his popularity and effectiveness because he doesn't pass Adam's own purity test.
(also actually knowing history and actions of current regimes)
And yet, he expressed open disdain for actually reading theory. The fact that he does so while saying such blatant nonsense really convinces me more of the importance of reading theory.
It is important to understand the history of various socialist projects and their various successes and failures, but to do that you actually have to engage with them and understand their beliefs and their reasons for making the decisions they did - something that Adam Something clearly has absolutely zero interest in doing. The left suffers from this tendency he exhibits to completely write off any insufficiently pure project as having zero connection to "real" leftism, which makes it categorically impossible to learn from past mistakes.
Well, the Democrats won't be the ones to do it.
The hubris of the Democratic party establishment + consultants is just… wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more poorly executed and inaccurate RCA summary. They are so far up their own assholes that they’re making themselves sneeze.
The Democrats are themselves cancer.
Holy shit, that second bullet point. The hundreds of thousands of people donating small sums of money are somehow less representative of the electorate than the two hundred people donating over a million dollars each, because reasons (just not mathematically sound ones)
It's the 4th bullet point that gets me. "We should spend more time going to right-wing-dominated spaces (and also restaurants)". Because only right-wing communities are "real". Anything lefties do is elitist.
The second bullet point is itself a paradox. By definition hundreds of small donations would represent the electorate better than individual large donors.
Is this verified? If so, congratulations, Democratic party leadership. Once again, you're planning on doing the exact opposite of what you should be doing. Their leftist voter turnout is going to plummet again while they try court Republicans—who often vote by party rather than policy.
The party should "embrace-patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery
Playing into nostalgia and nationalism. A strategy taken straight from the other party's playbook.
Democrats should "ban far-left candidate questionnaires and refuse to participate in forums that create ideological purity tests" and "move away from the dominances small-dollars donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate"
Condemning progressiveness, leaving their policies either to do nothing or slide the country even more into conservatism.
Abandoning their actual "small-dollars" donors (constituents) whose preferences may not align with
the broader electoratethe corporate donors.They should "push back against far-left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate influence on policy-and messaging"
Going to screw progressive politicians yet again, leaving only moderates and conservatives.
Candidates should "get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches)"
Actively and deliberately court voters from conservative hotspots.
The party needs to "own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities and commit to improving local government."
Either this means the goal is deregulation, or that they don't plan on addressing issues outside of rural areas. Maybe both.
“Meet me in the middle,” says the leopard.
The Geronocrats and MAGATs are the foolish clown that hops into the mouth of the beast.
People really need to show up to the primaries from now on. Tired of this shit.
Do they still have super delegates?
I'm 50:50 there will be another election. And I'm 50:50 on it being rigged if there is one.
Even if we have one, and it's not rigged, the Dems are proposing absolute jack shit for the people. So I don't see how they could even win a fair election.
We need a new party or a serious nation wide event if we want to put an end to projec 2025
At this point I’m convinced the only way to defeat Trump and his band of Nazis is to shoot them all in their fucking faces.
Could already have had two terms of Bernie (or Gore too), but humans, eh.
certain, specific humans, have a great deal more culpability than others.
less useful blaming billions when a couple dozen people engineered the choices for the rest of us, especially on climate.
the biggest problem opposition groups have nowadays is targeting the wrong people to oppose. I know who my enemies are and it's not so self defeatingly simplistic as humans = bad.
Children of Kali when?
Also, great image. I’m stealing that.
If the democratic machine would let him. He'd do a bang up job. But the DNC will mobilize all they have to stop him. Damn the cost. Just as they've done in the past.
Actually there is one way. And I think you know what it is.
That's what the voters have been trying to tell the DNC since 2016.
But the DNC's ears are plugged with corporate cash.
Ears? It's more like every orifice being plugged with corporate cash.
Really? Then why aren't there more progressives at every level of the Democrat party?
Maybe they should try telling Democrats at the voting booth.
is trough leftism like a trough urinal?
No, it's where you share your oats, brother
New flavour of leftism just dropped. I personally am more of a piss leftist.
i think i'm a pissing outside sometimes leftist
Call me crazy, but I want an answer before 2028.
Oh hell yeah! I totally support you guys trying that! I'm sure it'll work out perfectly for us!
I don't think that Democrats should turn away from their growing number of middle-class supporters in order to pivot to a platform that has no record of winning elections. The US economy is going to suffer over the next couple of years and the appeal of a "return to normalcy" party like the present-day Democrats will grow.
It's worth considering why the Democrats failed to persuade the majority of voters that electing Trump in 2024 would be (among other things) an economic disaster, but nonetheless it's going to be an economic disaster and voters won't be happy. I expect that Trumpism will have no political future if (and that's a big if) free elections are preserved.
When has a leftist campaign been run in earnest in a US election? Can’t remember any from the Dems in my lifetime, so I’m curious how it can have a record either way.
