3 documentaries that add up to a damning picture of the Trump regime and the Right in the US.
1. The Brink:Steve Bannon's world tour organizing dictators and fascists into a coordinated global force. They failed electorally but the xenophobic program gained ground.
Q: Into the Storm: The three 8chan operators manipulate people to act on manufactured extreme Right conspiracies. They are presented as irony bro pranksters until you see the very real danger their tactics present on a large scale.
Totally Under Control: Trump sabotages the Covid response for political gain killing hundreds of thousands. Some of the insider interviews are extremely damning. Trump is unquestionably a mass murderer.
Beyond Trump's role, of course capitalism exacerbates death tolls greatly during pandemics, as do borders, which among other things are capitalist mechanisms of labor control. This book was a good read on the subject: libcom.org/blog/review-an…
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How to assimilate Marxism and make it serve reactionary, nationalist, bigoted, exclusionary, and anti-working class politics. A 9 part thread with pictures.
1. Dig up ideologies developed by shady ex-Leninists who’ve embraced Right-Libertarianism, nationalism, class collaboration, xenophobia, reformist capitalism, and use anti-”PC” rhetoric to base-build with reactionaries and far right parties, but pretend it’s Marxist.
2. Find convincing thought leaders to promote this ideology while hammering at the liberal left. Lump together cartoonish neoliberal left views with anarchists, libcoms, and all other socialists outside the group while bolstering far right politics as “working class” and normal.
Listening to Amber Frost interview Catherine Liu and not only am I LEARNING a lot about MatERialiSm, it's a SUPER FunnY show! They are the best! soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-hou…
Ha ha! Amber praises Dr. Spock (child rearing author) for restoring traditionalist working class techniques lost to suburbanization without realizing Liu's book trashes him for coddling PMC kids who went on to be spoiled "fascists" as she calls the entire 68 student movement.
Now Amber is comparing a "PMC" viagra ad to a "working class" one and noting how cliched the working class one is with a "USA" logo and bare bones presentation. Like, doesn't that match these Nationalist Left type's fetishizing Norman Rockwellization of blue collar workers?