I didn't even mean to watch this video it just autoplayed one day when back in like 2017 I was watching breadtube shit and it hit me like a Chinese high speed train.
"Well I mean, they have nothing in terms of an argument or a coherent worldview or a useful praxis but what they do have is they are speaking on behalf of a hegemonic liberalism that's going to get us all fucking killed. I agree, don't talk to them, but because they're a distraction from the real fucking problem, which is that fascism arises from the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions.
That's how we got fucking Trump, that's how we get what's coming next after him that's gonna be even worse. Because if you think there's not gonna be more ecological and economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unequipped to deal with, and that that failure isn't gonna lead to fascism filling that fucking hole, then you've got another thing coming.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide.
And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
:yea: The best I can hope for is to plant trees in the ashes of the empire. There's no spontaneous unorganised uprising that can make a dent in a machine built to slaughter civilians and the monologue I feel most accurately describes this era is Brace Belden's "You are a serf". We aren't proactively on the verge of a 1917 or 1905 because class consciousness isn't established, but as the empire decays it stops meeting needs and allowing for civic participation and fostering organic community.
Building up dual structures in the way the Black Panthers did in the 1960s-70s seems like the most pragmatic path to achieve anything in the US so I became what they were at that point. We need to use our orgs to replace the things late stage capitalism steals from people because the people learn through observation.
edit: https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/1969/05/19.htm