Dengism is the highest form of Trotskyism!

very informative episode so far, half hour in. Thank you 🙏

wow, is the song played early in this podcast called "Bubuy Bulan"? A song from Indonesia. By the way, amazing podcast, thank you and greetings from Indonesia.

Principle of "democratic centralism"!!!!! why don't you say it Stanilism? wtf?

The Nietzsche hugging a horse thing most likely never happened. The myth borrows from a dream in the book crime and punishment, a book that he never read as it wasn't translated at the time.

Alway love revleft. Another excellent episode.

Had Nazi Germany been slightly more liberal, all our respectable friends who are oh so outraged at the violence in Palestine would've in the same exact way condemned the Warsaw ghetto uprising Liberals are no friends of ours, and no friend to revolutionary/decolonial movements.

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1959 to1962 the mass famine could also be discussed. As it caused a significant drop in the rural population of China, leading a mass exodus, of Chinese towards the west, Australia, Indonesia etc. The revolution, like every revolution, necessitates sacrifice. They got it right?

At 1:09:32 the speaker says "drops Atomic bombs on Japan...but it does bring the war to an end." Fact is Japanese military had already surrendered, to the allies, excepting the declaration of the Japanese emperor. However America, being what it was, still dropped the two Atom bombs, on innocent people, in spite of having won the war clearly.

Fantastic work. Love listening to Ken Hammond

Is that what we call mass slavery now? "great leap forward"?

Dengism is the highest form of Trotskyism.

What a bullshit cop-out. Dengist revisionism is objectively bad from a Marxist perspective.

Such an incredible series. Glad to see this on KZbin so I can share with more people

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They pushed anti-vax and anti-scientific climate change skepticism crp. That's a much more significant error than their larpy contrarian behaviour. I have nothing positive to say about them anymore.

Communism and socialism have a proven track record of failing so bad that millions of people have died. 1. **Soviet Union**: Under Joseph Stalin, the Great Purge, forced collectivization, and the Holodomor famine in Ukraine led to millions of deaths. Estimates range from around 6 to 20 million deaths. 2. **China**: Mao Zedong's policies, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are associated with high death tolls. The Great Leap Forward alone caused an estimated 15 to 45 million deaths due to famine and repression. 3. **Cambodia**: The Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.5 to 2 million people through genocide, forced labor, and starvation. 4. **North Korea**: While precise numbers are difficult to obtain, it's estimated that hundreds of thousands to millions have died due to famines, political purges, and labor camps. 5. **Other Countries**: Other communist regimes, such as those in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, have also been associated with significant death tolls due to civil wars, purges, and repressive policies. Overall, estimates of the total number of deaths caused by communist regimes in the 20th century often range from 60 to 100 million. Some of the key sources for these estimates include: - **"The Black Book of Communism"**: This book estimates around 94 million deaths. - **"Death by Government"** by R.J. Rummel: Rummel's research estimates around 110 million deaths.

What's the background music at the first part of the video? Kinda sounds like a remix of a traditional music from my country

Very interesting. If nothing else, it shows how depressingly unoriginal these figures are

Great episode guys but I had a couple things I wanted to mention. Alyson mentioned a couple times not seeing any usefulness for LLMs if it was owned by the proletariat. I find that odd because Alyson also mentioned a couple times using LLMs to help code. Breht mentioned a couple times of religion being human nature and that without religion humans are missing something from their lives. You say that without religion you will worship your ego and worship technology. You go over a couple times how bad dichotomies are, yet by saying this statement you yourself are creating a new dichotomy.

Really wanted to hear the guest more but the interviewer just kept expousing and narrating as opposed to asking and listening.

Great discussion! I shared this link with my comrades; sounds like a great resource for addressing capitalist rhetoric! People before profits! ✊🏼

The point about the scientific revolution is crucial. premodern capitalist structures predate the scientific revolution by actual millenia, there has been private property, commodity production for profit, commerce, financial services, and capitalist competition (even more intense than today since capitalists could employ mercenaries!) in Sumeria, Greece, Rome, ancient India and China, medieval Europe, the Islamic world, etc. so we have literal millenia worth of data of capitalism not being particularly tied to a dramatic rise in material welll being. Only the major paradigmatic shift in epistemological approaches to knowledge generation, known as the scientific revolution, could eventually bring about the sustained capacity of humans to iteratively improve and innovate on productive processes and to generate new categories of commodities. This is a necessary prerequisite to modern dynamic industrial capitalism, and clearly, the scientific enterprise was not born out of capitalism as a system of social relations, it was born out of the religious-intellectual establishment and its own distinct system of social relations that had nothing to do with commodity production for markets (though could be claimed to be VERY loosely connected through the practical interest in better astronomical models for better navigational tools which is tied to capitalist imperialist conquest and exploitation). Of course after the capitalist system took hold it coopted scientific development for its own purposes, which is why sometimes this deep interrelation can be misconstrued as a causal relation; undeniably a portion of the several scientific and technological innovations of the modern day came about in the interest of profits, but another larger portion wasn't, as the publicly funded modern educational intellectual establishment has been the primary motor of such developments, the military industry in particular is well known for having a keen interest historically in scientific and technological innovations that eventually seep into the capitalist consumer market. If anything, the current state of academia at several levels has been thoroughly compromised by profit incentives by drastically reducing quality standards, increasing costs of education, funneling areas of research towards only profitable ventures, and straight up becoming a marketing tool for commodities "approved by experts"

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22:00 genes arnt real, you mauthusian dolt. Lysenko was right! This person is an unqualified person as we say in the trades! 1:30:00 also the Big Bang is a crock of shit

The philosopher says IF a system is more egalitarian and satisfies human needs better than another system without violating people’s rights, we should do that. And then you just moved on. It would have been very interesting to investigate the potential counter arguments to that. The one that immediately comes to mind is the claim that private property rights are human rights. There is a reason we had to fight a civil war to end slavery even though it was clearly the morally superior position. When people have built their life, wealth, and power on an immoral system they will fight to preserve that system. It’s worse than that actually, foreign actors all over the world who have invested in that system also have an incentive to protect the current paradigm with force. Remember domino theory? We were the country playing that card, it will immediately be played against us by every other nation state we helped capitalism capture.

thankyou thankyou thankyou!

Music is unnecessary after at least 5 seconds of introduction

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Successes, failures, The next university movements will learn from this and perform ever more effectively

Only program which regularly hear.

Long live Marxism and leninism.

Hey Hey Lenin fans, one hundred years late, but check out a book called the Gulag Archipelago. That should be a good starting point to stop being Leninized.

I find the "good will" necessary to show a podcast quest evidently sends the discourse back

capitalism is incompatible with sustainable life. private property is illegitimate

hey Breht, love the show and been bingeing your long back catalog of podcast/ videos for a while now. I truly can't put into words how much this resource has helped me parse thru the more "in the weeds" topics, that most content I've found just skips entirely. If it's not to much of a pain, do you think you could put all the "Dialectics Deep Dive" videos on a playlist to make them easier to follow?

What's the song at the end? I dont see it in the show notes

1:48:34 "We are lived by powers we pretend to understand" - W.H.Auden.

Black Alliance for Peace refuses to acknowledge the role of Russia and China in the genocides of Sudan and Congo.

Who was the person speaking in the clip around 50:00 ? That was a great.

For someone who wrote a whole book on socialism, Scott doesn't seem to have a firm grasp on socialist history especially concerning the Soviet Union. He clearly believes a lot of american capitalist propaganda and even regurgitates "strong man" theory in regards to the Soviet Union.

Excellent interview. Thank you for having a philosopher’s take as opposed to an economist, whose views I find are often less rigorous particularly about the ethical aspects of the consequences of policy. Prof. has published in the traditional topics of philosophy and his current publication here, a more general audience book, can actually make difference to people who don’t read about traditional philosophical topics. Thank you.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." - Hélder Pessoa Câmara (1909-1999), Archbishop of Olinda and Recife -

This is the finest true crime graphic novel I’ve read. Many non-fiction, war-based graphic novels by Spiegelman, Sacco, Backderf, all of which I’ve loved, the true state crime graphic novel - are elevated here by superb writing and sequential imagery with CLR James the primary credit. Check it out! I’m an artist, perhaps obsessed a bit obsessive with polish and this book looks like pencils, rough, sketchy, a bit adolescent - yet the very abbreviated style allows for the illustrators to take big graphic, sometimes experimental swings and break on through to the other side. The sweeping story, vast cast, and multi-country intrigues whips by at a breathless pace toward thrills, revelations, treachery, bravery, victory & transcendence as I’m sure the estimable authors hoped. Highly recommend this superb novel. In a similar vein, Freedom Fighter, by Wayne Coe, a graphic novel on the secretive US military battle against the black church based on the 1999 Martin Luther King Assassination Conspiracy trial.

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Rock Hill on liberalism and fascism and their symbiosis and the theory industry completely hated by the CIA to traffic theory void of class struggle kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ_RkJWNedKcsNk&si=sDwDOh-INM8WXyr6

[pause] Alan Watts singlehandedly saved me from the throes of Reaction when I was still in university. Thanks, Unc.

Very informative programe.