cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10816484
And his sidekick.
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7QVofykyA&pp=ygUIQmFkbW91c2U%3D
Bro talks like Anarchist history and philosophy is suffocated in the west when it has been the most pushed-around anti-capitalist ideology by the bourgeois state ever. They literally have programmes and curriculums dedicated to promoting anarchism or as the westoids like to call it, 'anti-authoritarianism', in the "left" since the red scare era to spread anti-communism.
Scholars like Parenti, activists like Hampton, orgs like BPP & RCA were the biggest targets of suppression, and the anarchists love to pretend that it was the MLs who broke the left-unity. They think of themselves as the real victim and regurgitate capitalist state propaganda. Fuckers just want an enemy state to removed about all day. Doesn't matter if the state is capitalist or Socialist.
This is what the lack of historical materialism does to people.
His main criticism against ML is his "theory of hierarchy", for lack of a better term. It's not very sophisticated, almost to the point that it looks like he is trolling.
I'm pretty sure if one were able to peel off the veneer of whatever this is then there's probably some deeply held Western bigotry against brown folks because his angle is a really weird hill to die on.
If one understands his whole purpose, intentionally or not, is to defang any real resistance to Western Imperialism it makes a lot more sense. He and his ilk are the fascists' PR wing, to negate any real threat to Western Hegemony.
It also makes a lot more sense why he chose to frame the video from a hyper-individualistic navel-gazing perspective, and devolve it to some social media drama.