Cynical Historian Can't Define Capitalism & Much More...

#CYNICALHISTORIAN #CAPITALISM #NEOLIBERALISM

[albertjaynock]

I stopped watching his channel when he blocked Actual Justice Warrior for debunking the chart he used in his neoliberalism video.

[dfmrcv]

I've been rewatching his "American Polarization" series and it eerily follows a pattern.

Start somewhat accurate and even nuanced, with lines like "both sides share some blame" sprinkled throughout.

Start talking about the actual history... then, suddenly, start opining on certain points, specifically to say "that's wrong".

Slowly work from there into wrong interpretations (like claiming Barry Goldwater "engineered the Southern Strategy" and Woodrow Wilson was "vaguely" progressive) to downright fabrications ("Republicans today can only win through limiting who can vote").

Then ban anyone pointing out the mistakes.

The guy greatly disappointed me.

[HaIsKuL]

It's the linguistic obfuscation of ontology, or the evasion of the law of identity, that A is A.

By doing so, any critique can be ignored by saying "that's not what it means, you just don't understand it, etc." Negation. Negation. Negation. It's only useful when you're wrong.

[joshuagould]

Something I think we've all seen before: a lack of definitions, but especially for Capitalism. Some of these folks espousing Socialism quickly change their tune once you define Socialism.

[drstrangelove]

why is "either" always pronounced "eye-ther" these days? this did not used to be the case

[chuckecheese]

As someone who's called himself a neoliberal for about five years now I would say your definition is exactly or virtually exactly the way I would describe myself but it's something that really in my lifetime at least nearing forty has never been popularly defined by anybody

[raaaaaaaaaam]

I don’t mean to be rude but you can tell he has that really patchy beard/stubble to cover up lack of chin

[SmileyEmoji]

I understand why YB wants to define Capitalism narrowly and I sympathise with his point of view but that's just not how language works. Words mean what the majority of people take them to mean. It has to be so because words are for communication. If the dominant defintion of Capitalism is so vague as to be almost useless then that's just tough. YB's definition is also useless because it describes an objectivist utopia that will never exist. It is interesting as an ideal but human beings are just not made that way.