i think it's a great lib radicalisation video if there's anybody in your life you may want to share with
yes he concludes with coops, whether you like that or not he spends 99% of the video eviscerating capitalism with history and personable real life everyday experience
on the wolff + coops tip, in some interview he was asked about why he focuses on coops and he says it's because he's allowed to. that if he were to push something more radical, his career would be over, so he's pushing at the edge of the envelope that allows him to stay employable
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I like the guy even if he sometimes has some nuclear level bad takes like his canadian trucker stuff, he's just doing what he thinks is a balance between paying rent and trying to radicalize the youts
As a C*nadian who saw the trucker protests I honestly don't think his trucker takes were that off-base, I think the protests were purposefully misrepresented by liberals to seem like it was a fascist movement to shelter the Liberals from criticisms about their covid response. A lot of leftists swallowed that wholesale, including here.:shrug-outta-hecks:
My take is based on the (possibly wrong?) stat that a staggering majority of licensed truckers in Canada were vaccinated and the "trucker protests" represented a very small minority and were largely not truckers themselves but just anti-vaxers latching on to publicity. Could be wrong though, I'm a filthy americlap from the other end of the nation
edit: also they were canadians in canada protesting the american requirements for border crossings, so it seems to be a general categorical misunderstanding of power and how to apply pressure
Yeah that's ultimately right, for sure. They weren't necessarily all anti-vax but generally united against Canadian approach to covid. Their criticisms were multivalent and some of them had legitimate validity, but there were definitely a lot of people who thought engaging them was equivalent to advocating red-brown alliance and flamed Wolff as if that's what he was doing.
Yeah I definitely fall into the "thought this was too red browny to be good" category. A first nations youtube channel I'm subscribed to had some positive coverage of the protests that surprised me, but watching it seemed to just be generic anti-vax solidarity. I'm definitely open to the idea that vaccination requirements can be anti-worker, but the arguments seem to never be framed in a sane way, like providing additional sick days if required to get vaccinated. It always just seems like blanket anti-vax messaging, but I haven't spent much time paying attention to speak with authority.
Yeah for sure I'm not trying to say the protestors were good or had good takes at all, they were ultimately mostly just CHUD shitheads mostly motivated by the idea that their open resistance to the liberal consensus would make liberals mad and that's like their one lever of power. But that doesn't make them fascists and doesn't mean leftists engaging with them is bad, that's all.
Oh goddamnit you took my next username. Nice one comrade, back to the drawing board
i appreciate the effort but your point is mysterious at best
nah, but seriously, the soys are just me pogging out at mask off Rick Wolff
Watching it right now :wholesome:
Also, co-ops are awesome why you dissing them???
There’s nothing wrong with coops, it’s just a cliche that Wolff is obsessed with them
Of course co-ops would be materially better for workers than the current state of affairs, but to paraphrase LivAgar, "the hell of capitalism isn't that you have a boss, the hell is that you are forced to compete with other workers in a labor market". Even if all companies were co-ops, the necessity of cutting costs to remain competitive in nder capitalism provides incentives for workers to self exploit, damage the environment, etc.
cooping is as good a strategy as any at this point but we all have our pet ideology
I don't mind Wolff concluding with coops it's clearly a lib entrypoint into the left. The coop supporters can be turned into revolutionaries over time as they come to terms with the fact that there is no way to turn all the big companies into coops without revolution anyway, coops will not compete with amazon, big tech, walmart, etc etc. At some point down the line coop supporters will have to come to terms with force being necessary to get the radical change. Assuming they stay coop supporters and don't just head down the pipe into other parts of the left within a couple years of learning theory.
Wolffpack is out here. 🐺🌙
For real though I was always watch a Wolff video. Much like Bernie (faults and all), Wolff has been saying the same thing from the jump. He isn’t wrong and if anything I think he has introduced a ton of people to the idea of co-ops and unions as being cool.
Sunspots! Of course! I knew it was sunspots, even when it was capitalism's inherent instability I knew it was sunspots. 🌞
I gave the example of Nixon's intervention in 1917--excuse me, 1971
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