Dude’s an ultra
Bonus: https://nitter.net/uncle_authority/status/1721967810241335347#m
I guess the Deprogram guys are the Three Stooges now? But the joke doesn’t really work
:sadness: I hate it when my dads fight
Who is Roderic besides a guy who runs a (admittedly pretty good) blog? Info on the dude is scant online.
What is the difference between a blog and a website at this point for such a site? It rivals Marxism.org but for another goal: making theory easier to read and understand for a population that reads wayyyy too little. It's mostly works from other people with some of Roderic, Nia, and some others original pieces between.
I've also been scared by the fact that there's little about him online, but it makes a bit more sense when you hear he grew up in Peru, studied engineering (computers) in Canada (?) And works there now. It's not like he's gonna have a huge profile in his 20's. He also does lots of work with programming on GitHub, from before he was of redsails fame.
Just dropping in to say, I don't really know what the fuck anyone is talking about here. Some kinda egghead graph brain nerd talk.
I used to think he has good takes until I saw him railing against Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), on Twitter (funnily enough, it is also somehow brought up in the bottom screenshot of this post).
These people think they understand Marxism, yet they don’t even recognize that Stalin’s economic policies were not only strikingly similar to the principles of MMT, but possibly the only time the core principles of MMT has been put into practice.
Why do you think the USSR was the only country that achieved remarkable success in state planning? It was the financial system put into place by Stalin, which was immediately thrown into dustbin as soon as Khrushchev took power. Not even China could achieve that without relying on foreign investments and cheap labor.
MMT as it has been presented to me is missing class analysis and seems like liberals trying to do anything besides marxism.
i'd prefer it to the current regime but it's incomplete like newtonian physics.
MMT isn't an ideology, it's a theory of how money works, and the fundamental assumptions are absolutely compatible with marxist thought. There are caveats to it and it absolutely could be misused by a liberal state but it could also be used to build socialism in its early stages. You're not going to be able to get rid of money immediately, you need a transitional model, MMT could be that model.
Have you read the rest? Hakim straight up push proselite shit and suggest islam is somehow uniquely and naturally revolutionary.
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