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honestly i enjoyed some things he had to say but id rather eat a brick than watch jordan peterson defend capitalism
.@jordanbpeterson this is a huge mistake. the important things that stand antithetical to a marxist view of life are views of life that fail to strip higher ideals from the sphere of human interaction: philosophical and religious positions, not economic ones - such as capitalism.
.@jordanbpeterson u opting to label ur position as capitalism means you walk right into the trap of the marxist. essentially u will be forced to shill for corporations and GDP rather than actually stand against the worst aspects of marxism, which are its non-economic implications
.@jordanbpeterson marxism is essentially bad because it reduces all activity to a struggle between oppressed + an oppressor. this toxic worldview bleeds into everything, + leads to, for example, a mom saying she should be compensated for the “emotional labor” she gives her family
.@jordanbpeterson it removes all higher ideals from the sphere of history, assigning an economic motive to all historical struggles, seeing history only as a war between classes and not as a sphere of battle between higher ideals and an expression of the struggle inherent to life
.@jordanbpeterson capitalism [cannot] address these issues. it either assigns an economic motive to these things as well, just like marxism, or it has nothing to say about them, which is even worse. it cannot meaningfully combat the false picture of life painted by marxism.
.@jordanbpeterson i hope u see this + reconsider ur position. ask urself what capitalism has to say about the most important questions facing us: what is meaningful in life, what is mans place in society, how should man participate in + relate to history? u will see that im right
