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🗓️ 9 August 2025
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0:00.0 | a lot of this is leftist ABCs, but that's, you know, that's why I suggest of the book. |
0:05.6 | But this, this is the chapter, chapter three, that I got some smoke about, or some smoke to blow, I guess. |
0:15.6 | I'm a shooter. I have shooters. I don't know what the fucking kids say about this shit. |
0:20.3 | Chapter three is called left anti-communism. |
0:22.3 | And it starts off talking about how like the United States, the world we live in, the neoliberal era has a quality that he would call anti-communist orthodoxy, right, as part of like all culture. |
0:35.6 | Sure. |
0:36.6 | Totally. |
0:40.0 | I think we all agree with that. Right. in our fucking it's in everything here the stupid idea that communism is like this huge thing coming |
0:45.7 | to get you and that's why we got to go do wars everywhere and everything is so terrible |
0:49.8 | but in this chapter he really goes in on chomsky uh and he also goes in on orwell a little bit |
0:58.5 | and i argue that he basically calls anyone to the left of him or anyone and sorry anyone on the left |
1:05.5 | who's ever been critical of the soviet union an anti-communist, which I don't think is fair. |
1:12.5 | That's a lot of people. |
1:13.0 | Wow. |
1:13.8 | Yeah. |
1:17.2 | Which I guess I'm going to spoil my take here. |
1:21.6 | That includes him because the rest of this book is wildly critical of the Soviet Union. |
1:42.7 | But he really, like, he accuses Chomsky of being someone who, you know, for their own self-interest, for his own self-interest, wants to buy in to like the Imperial's narrative that the Soviet Union is bad. |
1:46.7 | And the proof of that is that he is sometimes critical of the Soviet Union. |
1:49.0 | Now, Chomsky's like a libertarian socialist. |
1:49.8 | He's an anarchist. |
1:55.2 | He's going to have a fucking point of view that's like somewhat critical of state socialism, right? |
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