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🗓️ 5 August 2025
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These are two snippets from a full episode which is currently up on our patreon in which Breht dialectically inverts core aspects of liberal philosophy (i.e. freedom and democracy) from a Marxist perspective, and then explains how the contradiction between the relations and forces of production under capitalism create an untenable and abjectly immoral situation wherein profit maximization for a few is always and everywhere prioritized over the wellbeing and flourshing of the vast majority.
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0:00.0 | And just very quickly, let's go through some of those dialectical inversions of liberal philosophy. |
0:04.8 | We support democracy. All right, but look how liberal democracies actually manifest in the real world. |
0:10.0 | Because you support capitalism and thus private property, you create hierarchies of wealth that then translate immediately into power and corrupt whatever possible democracies could be there. |
0:20.4 | So your democracies are masquerades. They are |
0:23.5 | facades. They are sick jokes calling themselves democracies. Furthermore, if you would like to actually |
0:29.0 | have democracy, democracy would have to be a way of life. Therefore, it would have to infiltrate |
0:34.2 | down to the community level, and that requires infiltration into the |
0:37.9 | workplace. Socialists understand that real democracy would have to be present in the workplace, |
0:43.8 | and what that looks like on a national scale and a global scale is democracy in the economy. |
0:49.5 | These are anathema to liberals. So liberals, they say they support democracy. In fact, you ask any liberal, |
0:56.3 | what's your core political commitment? Many of them will say democracy. A socialist dialectically |
1:01.9 | looks at what liberals say they believe in and how their systems actually function. And we say, |
1:07.7 | you say you believe in democracy. Here's all the ways in which you don't and how it doesn't manifest in your politics and how you seem to defend an entire order that is anti-democratic to the motherfucking core. |
1:19.5 | So by your own standards, you have failed to live up to them. We seek to actually live up to them, right? We actually believe in real democracy. |
1:28.5 | You don't. |
1:29.3 | Freedom. |
1:30.2 | Liberals. |
1:30.9 | We believe in freedom. |
1:32.8 | You know, it's so important to us. |
1:34.1 | We come out of monarchy and feudalism. |
1:36.3 | We believe so deeply in freedom. |
1:39.1 | People should have the right to free speech. |
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