• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    The proletariat as a class is materially unchanged, for the most part, since the time of that party. The particular political situation does not change the basic theory and the necessity for revolution over reform.

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      10 months ago

      It changes how you effectively educate. It affects how receptive people are to an idea.

      And the delivery methods are materially different. If you pointedly espouse revolution over reform on YouTube you’ll get the video deleted or suppressed and/or your account suspended.

      But if the proletariat really is materially unchanged, you could always bypass YouTube and distribute pamphlets. The proletariat’s relationship to the means of production is unchanged, their material conditions have changed dramatically in the past 150 years.

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        10 months ago

        There are plenty of Marxists on YouTube who do not concede revolution. Maybe some are too small to grab attention, but there are larger channels like Geopolitical Economy Report who routinely talk about current events from a Marxist perspective, and occasionally talk theory, without such compromise.

        The need for revolution is more or less standard Marxism, so it feels backward that I should be explaining that perspective — why do you think we must educate from a social-democratic perspective? Blaming the Red Scare seems like an excuse to me. If someone clicks a video about socialism, they’re either open to learning, or they’re not. At that crucial point you have to be convincing, not wheel out the usual arguments about fairness that every single Westerner has heard for decades.