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Matt has internalised elections as the only interface of politics that he completely broke his own brain.
Edit: in the same year that police stations were burned Matt comes to the conclusion during an election that there are no American political subjects? Get the fuck atta hear.
Edit 2:like the inciting incident for him is that more than ever people came out to vote and the result was the same. Why would you expect anything different? Why is he having this epiphany now and not in 2018?
In his rant he never mentions anything outside of whoever is congress or local elections or tucker carlson or whatever goes on in a presidential race. And his big idea is to hope that China wins out?
The only thing he says that's outside the mainstream conception of politics is "it's coming from below" and never expands on it. Never imagines how that can be steered or influenced. To Matt it's a fait accompli.
The Bolsheviks were only 10'000 people. You don't need the majority of people to affect change. The pre conditions are there for an American working class movement. You just have to clearly from the beginning say that all that ballot shit is not what you'll do. You'll do workplace shit, strike shit, community shit. Not AOC not this primary this not candidate that. The Imperial core left has to completely break from all the contemporary "democratic" interfaces of the state.
To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway
Him having this epiphany now is so weird. He's mocked dual power and the like before, I don't get exactly why this was the thing that finally made him realize electoralism's limits(although he hasn't completely recognized the value of non-electoral organizing work or anything yet).
Matt has internalised elections as the only interface of politics that he completely broke his own brain.
Edit: in the same year that police stations were burned Matt comes to the conclusion during an election that there are no American political subjects? Get the fuck atta hear.
Edit 2:like the inciting incident for him is that more than ever people came out to vote and the result was the same. Why would you expect anything different? Why is he having this epiphany now and not in 2018?
how, he explicitly criticizes this mindset in the vlogs
In his rant he never mentions anything outside of whoever is congress or local elections or tucker carlson or whatever goes on in a presidential race. And his big idea is to hope that China wins out?
The only thing he says that's outside the mainstream conception of politics is "it's coming from below" and never expands on it. Never imagines how that can be steered or influenced. To Matt it's a fait accompli.
The Bolsheviks were only 10'000 people. You don't need the majority of people to affect change. The pre conditions are there for an American working class movement. You just have to clearly from the beginning say that all that ballot shit is not what you'll do. You'll do workplace shit, strike shit, community shit. Not AOC not this primary this not candidate that. The Imperial core left has to completely break from all the contemporary "democratic" interfaces of the state.
To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway
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Sanders losing made Virgil with draw for months.
Him having this epiphany now is so weird. He's mocked dual power and the like before, I don't get exactly why this was the thing that finally made him realize electoralism's limits(although he hasn't completely recognized the value of non-electoral organizing work or anything yet).