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.
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)
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.
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.
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.