Left Anticommunism: An Infantile Disorder

Twitter: @YaBoiHakim

[YaBoiHakim]

Twitter: @YaBoiHakim
A spicy one discussing Left-Wing Anti-Communism, its faults and the origins of its misguidance. This took maybe 6 re-uploads before it wasn't immediately demonetized or flagged somehow. I hope you guys enjoy it <3

[ericktellez]

Being a Liberal is like taking a bus towards a city and then getting off a few miles before you reach your actual destination.

[shreddiekrueger]

As an American lefty I’ve been waiting for this video. I get called a fascist in leftist communities just for having a Luke warm response to the USSR. They have this utopian view of what a revolution should look like. Material conditions matter not. The Vaush community is among the worse in this regard. I would love to see Hakim dismantle Vaush. Hakim is well spoken and well read. A true comrade

[ukulayme]

I read blackshirts and reds last year. One of his sources in his footnotes was from an Italian newspaper which I couldn’t find on the internet. I emailed him asking if he could send it to me. He literally emailed me within a few days saying that his friend had sent him a newspaper clipping in the 90s and he couldn’t locate it at the moment because he was in very poor health.

I sent a reply back asking if I could set up a gofundme for whatever his health issues were and he never responded. That was probably too much. Parenti is a class act. He is a noble man who responds to his readers and cares for this world. If you have 5 mins, look up is email and send him a message of appreciation for his life’s work.

Hakim, thank you for your work too.

[howardsaffer-meng]

You should email Noam Chomsky, he almost always writes back.

[johnpaulsylvester]

As an American socialist, thank you for keeping me honest.

[milo]

As an American, it’s so mental to me that people here can complain about how the USSR built a big military and used it for things. The levels of critical thinking are zero for some of these people.

[itstankietime]

The idea that academia doesn't have a class character is just absurd. Great video.

[RobertBH]

George "Paul Robeson was anti white" Orwell

[DeadHeadAnimation]

It's so true. No one ever looks at the nuance. There are a ton of amazing things that people have achieved in communist countries throughout history. I hate when it's all looked at as being evil.

[mirror]

Thank you. I found that, in general leftists in countries that don't benefit massively from Imperialism seem to have a much more pragmatic, and frankly much more useful view on politics.
Of course, being born in Germany in 1993, I was heavily indoctrinated to condemn the Soviet Union or the GDR without ever even really learning about them. I am thankful for the work of people like Parenti and you, for helping me break out of this indoctrination.

[DammitBobby]

Even if you consider yourself an anarchist, you should recognize, whatever socialist society that sprouts is going to exist in the context of the time and place that it exists in. Leftists should learn from the successes of people like Thomas Sankara.

[tedcoombs]

"Stalinist soap dispenser that didn't work all that well" lmaooo

[Whoo]

" 'Are the fascists gonna get their newspapers?!' "
-Michael Parenti

[OllieMendes]

I'm also seeing a growing trend of what I'd call anti-intellectualism where people dismiss the very idea of reading theory. They'll tell you "I don't want to read a book by a 200 year old dead white dude", "you're just a book worshiper", and other nonsense as if they don't think they have anything new to learn and have no need to expand their worldview. I hate to come off like I'm saying I'm so much smarter than someone else because I read a book they didn't, but like, reading is cool and good and useful actually.

[piratealeks]

Literally can’t recommend blackshirts and reds enough !!

[Persephales]

“The group’s that can’t organize a reading circle, think they are capable of this.” Best line of the video.

[matheusvillela]

As a brasilian recently-turned socialist, I can say what you said about white western leftists being more prone to anticommunism is spot-on. In Brasil, it is much more common for self-proclammed socialists to defend real socialist experiences such as the Soviet Union. I guess when you live in a country that has always been vitimized by famine and liberal (pseudo)democracy is the exception more than the rule, the Soviet Union seems great by comparisson. Whereas a white, upper-middle class american leftist might look at it and think it was all worthless, since they likely wouldn't be able to keep their lifestyle in a similar society, and anything that doesn't correspond to their utopian vision of socialism is not worth pursuing.

[jojodio]

Neither we the whites of the third world (Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil or any others peripheral whites) do that. I think the question is not being a white wester leftist, but being leftist in the central- Western powers. Because I have seen lots of non white Western "leftist" who are the typically anti communist. Generally central-Western leftist are less left or more right than third world leftist.

[thefinnishbolshevik]

Brilliant as always. This phenomena has two main expressions:
1) 'eurocommunism': adapting to bourgeois society and ideology for some perceived gain. Eurocommunists are forced to compromise and only accept the most moderate socialism, reforms etc and denounce the strongest enemies of capitalist society.
2) ultra-leftism: denouncing any socialism or methods that are deemed in violation to some eternal principles. This stems largely from lack of practical success -- the smaller the ultra-left group, the more extreme and wide their denounciation of real-life socialist experiments or activities is.

Those two also often overlap. One proof of the unscientific nature of their approach is that while they all agree to denounce real-life socialism, they dont have any agreement on the reason why. Real life socialism is attacked as being "marxist statism", "not real marxism", "not real leninism", "marxist leninist state-capitalism", "bureaucratic socialism" etc. etc.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I would imagine any scientific factual research could pinpoint the real flaws and make a consensus based on solid proof. But there is no consensus in the united-front of opportunism: only coming up with a narrative that suits their ideological needs.

I'll also link my vid on Operation Mockingbird