This channel frustrates me to no end, the guy who runs it will be incredibly based and then randomly throw in "and that is why I hate those commies" or try to talk about radicalism and "resistance" and then denigrate Marxism.
Here we have him claiming that Marxists "impose" modern values on food riots of the 18th century by seeing them as displays of "proto-proletarian class conscious"......no elaboration on why that is incorrect.
Does he think proto proletarian means "proletariat but before 1850"? Or that class consciousness means a someone who has read Marx and Lenin? He is effectively saying "no these are not a transitionary class lashing out at the results of capitalist development and alienation in a haphazard way along class lines they are not fully aware of yet. It is just a transitionary class lashing out at the results of capitalist development and alienation in a haphazard way along class lines they are not fully aware of yet."
He acts like Marx invented the idea of classes as actors and that nothing before Marx can be the result of class contradictions because there are factors "of the time" like bitch those are called material conditions!!!!
I am pretty sure he did this before by calling the Lost Cause myth and neoconfederates the same as Maoists but seemed to have far more vitriol for the ones actually fighting for survival.
Honestly the idea of framing history as "resistance" is so weak. The throughline there is just whoever is resisting, not why they are resisting, not the development and progress of the forces that are making disparate groups have to resist. It is radlib mindset to the highest degree.
The same dumb shit comes up with libs when you mention any historically progressive cause. "ummm aktually Bolivar was not a Marxist-Leninist so why are you commies interested in him?" "lol Spartacus never declared he would free all slaves everywhere so why are you inspired by his struggle?"
These people do not want to engage in the fundamental reality of what historical materialism actually is, and thus think any examination of class must mean you are saying that the Sans-Culottes are factory workers and not....yeah know the progressive class that lead their revolutionary moment.
FFS Marxists view capitalism as a progressive force in a materialist sense. This shit is so easy to understand if you make an effort.