someone give benn jordan a political education PLEASE
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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sigh .. you don't need to make up words my guy...
"nooo I love capitalism! What I hate is [Capitalism]."
"Nooo I can't talk about financialisation, people might learn who Harry Magdoff, Paul Sweezy, or Hyman Minsky are!"
You can't tell me what to do. I'm going to invent another term for "I skimmed a Bookchin book once".
the thumbnail of this put me off watching it so i'll comment on benn generally
he's some kind of liberal libertarian is the best i can come up with. he's not a left-lib like deviant ollam, but he's not a hog either. he believes in america in that naive way white liberals do. glazes cops in some of his anti-surveillance videos which is kinda wild.
the technical info is good and his projects are cool but somebody should trick him into learning some theory
I find Deviant Ollam much more tolerable for exactly this reason, that behavior kind of put me off of replicating some of Benn's stuff.
i wonder if his politics will improve now that he's not married to a fed or whatever i forget her exact job but it was weird for a vaguely left anti-government type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarah_Wheeler
Senior Fellow of Global Cyber Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations; only now just learned that Ollam & her split
I don't live in u.s. (everyday i realise than God was merciful upon me for that) but what i could notice in this video is not a direct critic or a informative video essay, it was more a compilation of a sad nostalgia for a simple time where he grew up with more hope in the world and the things used to be more positive, because we didn't have access to the information we have now
WHAT ARE THEY LEVERAGING WITH BENN???? WHAT???????? FUCKING SEASHELLS? NO!!! IT'S CAPITAL!!!!! FUCK!!!!
capitalism is not the "rules as they are written" it's what the capitalist actually do, and often the rules follow from what they want, not the other way around. this fetishization of "correct capitalism" or the FDR politics is gross. the reason FDR era ended in the 1970s is because decolonisation (and the start of neo-colonial rule) wasn't a 1940s thing, it happened in the 1960s and 70s and somehow this modicum of nationalisation and autonomy collapsed the western economies (although the oil shock in particular was far more disastrous for developing countries).
this whole video is a minefield full of these asinine statements. privacy liberalism is not radical, doesn't matter how much you try to vibe your way into anarchism.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: