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S4A Office Hours 2023-07-25: Studying Marxism to Solve Present-Day Social-Political Problems & More

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Patreon ☭ Bluesky ☭ Discord ☭ Mastodon ☭ @socialismforall Radio Public ☭ Reddit ☭ Soundcloud ☭ Spotify ☭ Twitch ☭ Twitter ☭ YouTube ☭ Socialism for All does not run ads on its material. Please consider becoming a financial contributor on Patreon today for as little as $2/month! Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction Thanks to the Patrons 2:32 No More Twitter (S4A account is still up, but I’ve moved to Mastodon and Bluesky); Elon Musk’s Rebranding Woes; Bluesky’s Deficits 8:37 UPS strike; building the labor movement 16:14 Weak labor movement? Weak working-class political movement. (Cornel West & the Green Party US POTUS Primaries) 18:15 What’s New on the Channel; Introduction to Revisionism & Anti-Revisionism; Religion Mini-Series 33:31 Coming up in August; New on the Community Tab; #LeftCoalition or #LeftCongress?; A Future for the Green Party US; Eliezer Yudkowsky’s TED Talk on the Existential Threat of AGI; RFK Jr.’s Anti-Science, AIDS-Denying Disinformation 44:49 Chat 1: Necessary labor-time and slacking off; Anti-Stalin propaganda; Trotsky; UPS deal shortcomings; Texas bill against water and shade breaks; X, Musk, & Zuck; TikTok & YouTube shorts 57:36 Chat 2: Marianne Williamson; The Current “Infantile Disorder” (Manifestations of Political Immaturity); Anarcho-communism is half-communism; Parenti as Agitator; S4A comments in the audiobooks; Atheist agitation & education 1:08:31 Chat 3: Religion & counter-revolution; FinBol series on the Moscow Trials; The continuing relevance of socialism; Gig work, independent contracting, surplus value extraction, taxes, & petty bourgeois consciousness; Prison abuses (extreme heat); COVID is not over (Biobot waterwater update), new SARS-CoV-2 wave mounting 1:18:56 Chat 4: Future of S4A 1:32:18 Chat 5: Anarcho-communism as reaction against Marxism; “I agree with Dimitrov except for the Marxist jargon”; COVID in the northeast USA; non-Marxist/non-communist wanting to learn more about it (continues on and off through end); Transitioning to socialism; The development of dialectical materialism in philosophy, idealism vs materialism 1:45:47 Chat 6: “I would be anarchist if not for S4A”; has a decent glossary (but with Trotskyist spin); “Lumpenproletariat” as an abused & overused term; Fascism, the ideology of advanced capitalism/imperialism; Juche Gang; If a nation oppresses another, that nation is not free 1:55:40 Chat 7: “Oppenheimer”; Capitalism is still capitalism (basically), one century later; The point of studying Marxism is to solve social/political problems in front of us today; Antidotes to macroeconomics; Individualist/adventurist apocalyptic & superhero young adult books/movies; Red unions in the USA 2:07:06 Chat 8: Right-wing political movements gaining strength in Europe; Fascism copies socialist aesthetics but with counter-revolutionary content; Criticism of “How to Blow up a Pipeline”; Labor movies; Fascism’s mystical anti-science/anti-intellectual currents; “Traditionalism” as reference to earlier stage of (equally “artificial”) class society; Material reality & ideology; “Metropolis” 2:19:23 Chat 9: Marxism & Humanism; Proletarianization of the population is a true prediction of Marxism indicating a particular direction to history; Sunday Assembly; Richard Wolff’s tailism 2:25:55 Chat 10: Changing minds about Marxism through calm conversation; Socialism, a movement of organized, class-conscious workers, is how to end war, hunger, poverty, pollution, & oppression 2:33:06 Closing #s4a​​ #socialismforall​​ #socialism4all​​ #demexit #leftcoalition #revolution2030​​ #rev2030 #tatertube #socialism​​ #socialist #communism​​ #communist #marxism​​ #marxist #news #politics #antifa #antifascist #antifascism #berniesanders #notmeus #greenparty #dsa #democraticparty #democraticsocialism #union #labor #laborunion #laborhistory #cornelwest #climatecrisis #climatechange #climate #climateemergency #climateaction

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