Antonio Gramsci & The Socialist Intellectual Ecosystem

[@ShortFatOtaku]

YES I USED A WRONG PICTURE OF WILLIAM LIND. when you search his name on google images that pic appears man, he looks exactly like him its not my fault

[@maskedbadass6802]

I feel like I understand what you are saying regarding the definition of "critical race theory" and why conservatives often get the definition wrong, but even so I feel like I am struggling to verbalize how to describe what it actually is. In short, (and please correct me if I am wrong) would it be fair to say that the conservatives get it wrong because they define CRT as "just teaching racism by saying that 'everything that white people touch is bad'" whereas the actual definition is "a theory that says that the liberal values of 'color-blindness' perpetuate racism because...?" Damn, I thought I had something for a second.... Ugh. Help, lol.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Why does Antonio Gramsky look like Trotsky, that smiling nerd with the curley hair, glasses and goblin grin, who was very good at oration for no reason at all - also, some say Hitler was autistic, but then came out of his shell as a really good orator one day (aww, how cute amirite). Hey, why.

[@oldoutlet6946]

lol get rekt

[@bug5654]

We may never recover financially from this.

[@nova_supreme8390]

Well that just means your whole video can be regarded as misinformation. Those are the rules.

[@agaperion]

I remember reading the original Wikipedia article about Cultural Marxism and then coming back to it to find it had been completely changed to frame the idea as a right-wing conspiracy theory. I got to witness straight-up Orwellian revisionism in real-time. Glad to see you mention this for the public record.

[@fxxkuall45663]

Hbomberguy made a video on cultural marxism being a consipiracy theory apparently. And hes openly communist too lol. He said once in a pretty buried clip that "once the communist revolution starts, we'll starg capping people".

[@fxxkuall45663]

Dev should respond to different breadtubers than vaush and breadtubers like hakim, second thought, bad empanada, kavernacle, hbomberguy, Hasan, and shaun, and sheep in the box. Those are much more dangerous than vaush imo. A reponse to conure would. E nice too.

[@markzuckergecko621]

It's a right wing conspiracy theory, and also, hell yea I'm a communist, and also, you can't even define communism, and also, it's a right wing conspiracy theory, it doesn't exist, but it only exists a little bit, and you can't define it.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

@@fxxkuall45663 "Trust me guys, KZbinrs are going to be sooo important after the revolution!!"

[@robertallan8035]

@@fxxkuall45663 Shaun, second thought, and contrapoints are intellectuals relative to the rest on the list, and therefore are the ones who deserve actual discourse.

[@draketheduelist]

"When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because it is in accordance with your values. When I am stronger, I take away your freedoms because it is in accordance with mine."

[@whm_w8833]

“But you overestimated yourself and got owned by facts and logic. So you just use lies to win.”

[@tomtheconqerur]

"Counter argument, you are the definition of a homosexual."

[@williamjenkins4913]

Frank Herbert - Children of Dune

[@Dunge0n]

"We fought the wrong enemy... There is a deeply Semitik influence in the Press." - Patton

[@whm_w8833]

@@Dunge0n “Berlin gave me the blues. We have destroyed what could have been a good race, and we are about to replace them with Mongolian savages.And all of Europe will be communist. It’s said that after the first week they took it*, all women who ran were shot, and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it** had I been allowed.” Gen. George S. Patton, July 21, 1945 (*”It” Referring to Berlin **taken Berlin instead of the Soviets)

[@danielkings2443]

It goes so quickly from “it’s not happening, you are a conspiracy theorist” to “it is happening and you are racist/sexist/homophobic/stupid for paying attention to it because it doesn’t matter” before finally landing on “It is happening and it’s a good thing.”

[@tumamaencosplay]

Exactly, I feel like the historic context is completely unnecessary to address the validity of the quote. It does not matter if the quote was uttered or not by who it is attributed, but if it reflects the real world. We all can see leftist activists behaving in exact accordance to that quote, so it doesn't matter if the dude says it, it is real praxis, and pointing it out is not misinformation.

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

Makes me sick and I don’t need to read a thousand books to see it in everyday life

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Yep. EVERY. TIME.

[@V-RADIO]

I have observed something similar, my timeline though when it comes to things like CRT and drag/lgbtq stuff in schools starts with: 1. It's not happening. And it should not be happening. 2. Ok, it should be happening, but it's still not happening. 3. Ok fine, it IS happening and it SHOULD be happening...

[@TheLegendaryBillCipher]

Welcome to the game plan.

[@__-vu8io]

Add another one to the folder "That thing doesn't exist! But even if it does it is a good thing."

[@__-vu8io]

In my defense I posted this during the premiere before Dev said it in the video :P

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

Celebration Parallax

[@tumamaencosplay]

Exactly, I feel like the historic context is completely unnecessary to address the validity of the quote. It does not matter if the quote was uttered or not by who it is attributed, but if it reflects the real world. We all can see leftist activists behaving in exact accordance to that quote, so it doesn't matter if the dude says it, it is real praxis, and pointing it out is not misinformation.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Certified Tiananmen square 1989 classic.

[@AiluridaeAureus]

There is no culture war in Ba Sing Se.

[@Noperare]

The best way to describe cultural marxism is "there is no culture war, but we are winning"

[@codyjenson5310]

"no matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie." Dark souls 2 might be a flawed game but this quote I believe is exceptional, and true.

[@EPICoutcast24]

Fromsoft Games have a number of surprisingly deep quotes about the world. The metaphysics of Elden Ring is still getting me

[@minespatch]

"A lie... But I knew no better." Aldia's brother. 😆

[@postapocalypse0763]

Remind me when was this said?

[@minespatch]

@@postapocalypse0763 Aldia in Scholar of the First Sin. It's when you enter the undead crypt. Aldia says this after he Jerry Bruckheimers you a second time. 😆

[@sdfabctr]

The souls games takes influences from berserk and clearly has a strong pride in its exclusivity and unique identity. It's why every new release leftists try to grind it down. They can tell that it does philosophically oppose them in its nature.

[@k96man]

Isn't it kind of funny how the people who want to 'help' the working-class have basically little to no connection to them?

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

It certainly is interesting that the only people complaining about workers being exploited don't work

[@propulsidereal]

@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle this is literally false lmao the rail union just had a major strike months ago

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

@@propulsidereal correction, they threatened to strike if Biden didn't bend the knee to them. He didn't bend the knee and they backed down.

[@blah7956]

​@@propulsiderealwell, given their salaries, they're not really working class anymore

[@propulsidereal]

@@blah7956 most idiotic thing ive ever read, you understand the majority of employees in the rail industry are still working class right?

[@GrembloTV]

When I was in college, I took a globalization class during my sophomore year. The professor invited a speaker to present his experience of revolutionary activism (not sure how that had anything to do with globalism either but bare with me). Now, what experience did he present to the class... he was talking about him/his group sabotaging equipment that was being used to build the keystone pipeline. He shared how he'd have to put on a mask and under the cover of night, break into the work sites with his "associates" and sabotage the workers equipment to slow down the construction of the pipeline. At the end of his presentation, he began handing out pamphlets to everyone and left. When the professor asked if we had any questions about the presentation, I asked her in front of the class, "did you seriously invite an eco-terrorist to come here and try to convince us to commit multiple felonies with him, to throw our futures away for the sake of his "cause"? When I first attended university, I never felt like it was an indoctrination camp, it was only after that class, and some subsequent classes during my Junior/Senior years that made me realize we were all being used as pawns for political subversion.

[@Cookieofdoom]

What was the response??

[@doyourbest_uwu]

Did the professor answer?

[@PowerSkiff12]

That didn’t happen

[@williamrockwell9705]

Implying you said that to the "professor".

[@CAnAbrAvA2011]

That might not have happened but I know something that did. Brazil's government movie funding company called Ancine released a movie about Marighella, a terrorist during the 64 dictatorship. What makes this a "gramsci thing" is that the guy was white and they had Seu Jorge (the guy that played Knockout Ned in City of God-which was black) play a white guy, and this Marighella published a book called Manual of the Urban Guerrilla Warrior(Manual do Guerreiro Urbano) that teaches how to torture people you interrogate and how to set heists and create bombs. The movie says he was a "hero against the oppression of the 64 dictatorship" but in fact it was a war against the commies that tried to also take power. The army were torturing the commies but the commies were also torturing who was against them. There were help from news outlets and big names in news like Globo news that were helping the commies. Dilma Roussef was caught in a bank heist and later rose to power as President in 2010. They're deeply rooted in latin america governments, people that are Gramsci fans took over culture, news and other things and are "proud" to say or commit acts of vandalism in the name of the socialist regime

[@Charon-5582]

The reason Gramsci and Goebbles said the same thing coincidentally is because they were both socialists that appealed to the same ideals in people. It wasn't strictly a coincidence or an accident, it is a function of their socialist ideology being functionally the same thing from 2 angles.

[@ORLY911]

Yet you still have people swear up and down fascism isn't related to socialism and taking it "in name only" when it comes to the NS's. It annoys me to no end.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

@@ORLY911 Well their methods revolve on pissing on your face and telling you it's raining. They're gramscians.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Exactly. Same end goals and same ideals led to similar words.

[@SamuelLevant]

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo except, of course, the "slight" difference of hardcore nationalism vs globalism.

[@Biggiiful]

@Samuel Levant. Except when you boil it down, "globalism" isn't any less nationalistic than nationalism. Instead it's even MORE nationalistic. There is nothing MORE nationalistic then believing the entire planet should conform to one set of beliefs and ideals and way of being. Finalists require all nations to be one nation. Nothing more nationalistic than not wanting other nations to exist opposite you're own.

[@Wannabechefguy]

I had no idea that the Wikipedia page for Cultural Marxism was changed. Because I read it between 2012-2015 as that was when the "skeptic" community was going through some kind of invasion of intersectionality and Marxism. I think Armored Skeptic even talked about it briefly in a video. Man. I feel ancient, now.

[@InfernoScorpion14]

You mean the subversion known as "Atheism+". What a shitshow that was.

[@hope-cat4894]

The Southern Poverty Law center perpetuates this, too. That's concerning. 😞

[@alberain]

Atheism+ lol.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

It's creepy, I saw it change in real time. Edit: And yes, I tried to edit it, they didn't allow people to fix it

[@offspringfan100]

Wow, those were simpler times... I wish we could go back. As a side note, still watch Skeptic and he's been putting out some brain melting stuff lately, check it out if you haven't

[@gamingshowerthoughts9723]

This stuff is EXTREMELY important to bring to the mainstream normies. The ascendent "progressive" ideology is not an extension of liberalism; it's a departure from liberalism.

[@williamjenkins4913]

Not just a departure but a hard counter to liberalism. It is anti personal freedom.

[@yeez13]

I’ve actually broken this down to my Pops, who isn’t very politically savvy, and he just kinda scratched his head, shrugged and said “Yeah, all of this is over my head” I’m of the belief that those self-admitted Subversives purposefully poison the wells we “drink” from (Entertainment/ News/ Sports/ Etc.) not because they strictly want to convert the normies but because they despise them and want only to destroy their own means of escapism. It’s why you’re suddenly seeing a massive spike of people like my Pops, who doesn’t care one way or another about policy or theory, coming out and admitting that they hate “the new thing” when in the past…they’d just go along with it until they “liked it”. Between CG, “The Fandom Menace”, the backlash to the Amazon adaptations of The Wheel of Time and The Second Age of Middle Earth (LOTR: tRoP), consumer backlash and protests (those things they wanted/ swear to do in the first place) being weaponized against them has not only shown the cracks in their armor but has gone as far as to prove how nonsense their Political Theories are and have been all along. And they are SEETHING, knowing that they have been pushing for it all and knowing that they can’t make it stick for long.

[@justinhart2831]

This is very important to remember, I believe. It seems to be getting more common online for people who reject CRT etc to trace it all back to the French Revolution and conclude the Enlightenment is where wokeness comes from and thus is the problem. This strikes me as trying to whitewash a fence by painting it black.

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

I may not know these peoples history but I can see their influence very easily once I got my toes into politics. Idk how anyone can miss it anymore!

[@shoopoop21]

No. Its a corruption of liberalism. Liberalism is a body with no immune system.

[@Skullnaught]

What's especially terrifying to me is that in my senior education course my professor has stated that she is a "Gramsci fan"

[@Xplora213]

Abandon it. Transfer out. They are literally just playing a game to collect a paycheque while they do their best to ruin your mind.

[@fruitylerlups530]

imagine admitting youre an intellectual coward like this

[@umwha]

In my 3 years of sociology education and 4 of criminology , I can can confirm that all staff like gramsci and present him positively

[@DailyLifeSolution]

Gransci is where socialists are. My country, India is very ripe for Gramsci's theory. I enrolled for Master of Arts degree in History. I saw many classmates indoctrinated by our professors teaching Indian applications of Gramsci's theory. I fortunately did not get indoctrinated because I used to watch videos on American politics and philosophies behind it. If I had not watched them, I would also have been indoctrinated by the syllabus and professors.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Yeah. They did enter all institutions. Pretty much all educational institutions in my country are already taken.

[@Castle3179]

The far left prayer. That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not our fault. And if it was, we didn't mean it. And if we did, you deserved it.

[@PetroBeherha]

Also known as the Narcissist's Prayer.

[@Castle3179]

@@PetroBeherha 😏

[@LB-yg2br]

Sounds like maga and trump supporters. Trump didn’t say that. Ok he said it but he didn’t mean it. Ok he meant it but it’s actually good that he said that and meant it

[@VicecrackVoldermort]

​​​​​@@LB-yg2br Are you sure? Most Trump supporters either take the last interpretation, or the first. It's not like the media is charitable towards Trump. It has misrepresented him several times. Also, unlike leftists, you never hear them go from 1 to 3 in the same argument. It's usually different people. Of course, for any two people, one of them is wrong but that's a significantly weaker argument than what you're trying to pass here. Also, unlike ideology or general socio politics, I can actually stand by this sentiment for quoting controversial public figures. Demonstrating fractal incorrectness in your opponent's statement (He didn't say that but even if he did....), while ideal, is not necessary for a good argument. Proving the first premise is wrong and getting them to concede before moving on is better. Why spend time debating whether what Trump didn't say is good or not? The reason why it doesn't apply to socio-politics is because it turns from trying to defend a controversial figure to having this ideological bait-and-switch which is disingenuous. No one thinks Trump (even Trump supporters) claim he doesn't say offensive things. Leftists would claim that something isn't happening and then that it is happening but it's a good thing. I don't think it is wrong to go from 1 to 3 infact. It is the second step that usually makes it disingenuous. Fyi, in the video, I don't think it is wrong for SDL to correct the quote. (I would compare Trump to Gramsci) I do think it's incorrect to pretend the sentiment the rightists have about socialist strategy is incorrect. Also, I did a 1 to 3 (If you notice). Is my argument incorrect or disingenuous? If no, then there's surely a difference right? If yes, how?

[@VicecrackVoldermort]

​@@LB-yg2br Are you sure? Most Trump supporters either take the last interpretation, or the first. It's not like the media is charitable towards Trump. It has m1srepresented him several times. Also, unlike leftists, you never hear them go from 1 to 3 in the same argument. It's usually different people. Of course, for any two people, one of them is wrong but that's a significantly weaker argument than what you're trying to pass here. Also, unlike ideology or general socio politics, I can actually stand by this sentiment for quoting controversial public figures. Demonstrating fractal incorrectness in your opponent's statement (He didn't say that but even if he did....), while ideal, is not necessary for a good argument. Proving the first premise is wrong and getting them to concede before moving on is better. Why spend time debating whether what Trump didn't say is good or not? The reason why it doesn't apply to socio-politics is because it turns from trying to defend a controversial figure to having this ideological bait-and-switch which is disingenuous. No one thinks Trump (even Trump supporters) claim he doesn't say offensive things. Leftists would claim that something isn't happening, and then that it is happening but it's a good thing. I don't think it is wrong to go from 1 to 3 infact. It is the second step that usually makes it disingenuous. Fyi, in the video, I don't think it is wrong for SDL to correct the quote. (I would compare Trump to Gramsci) I do think it's incorrect to pretend the sentiment the rightists have about socialist strategy is incorrect. Also, I did a 1 to 3 (If you notice). Is my argument incorrect or disingenuous? If no, then there's surely a difference right? If yes, how?

[@Zetact_]

When someone argues, "That quote is misattributed" but does not say, "I don't believe that nor do my allies," it does say something on their motivations and goals.

[@tumamaencosplay]

Exactly, I feel like the historic context is completely unnecessary to address the validity of the quote. It does not matter if the quote was uttered or not by who it is attributed to, but if it reflects the real world. We all can see leftist activists behaving in exact accordance to that quote, so it doesn't matter if the dude says it, it is real praxis, and pointing it out is not misinformation.

[@daviokamoto2143]

in the end of the day it is true.

[@10thletter40]

Personally I had no idea who this guy was. It doesn't make that quote any less applicable to today.

[@LagrangePoint0]

@@daviokamoto2143 also in the end of the day is night.

[@HonkeyKong54]

It’s always strategic with these slimy pos

[@TheRoseBoy11]

I LOVE your more "philosophy based" videos and feels more timeless and informative than what any CrumbTube would try to do whenever they try to make a video essay that yet again devolves into "muh capitalism & Murica bad".

[@johnseppethe2nd2]

I recently watched an old lefty video essay and i couldn't believe how out of context it actually was, it was quite comical really.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

There’s a reason why Vaush and Hassan don’t invite Dev to their big brained “intellectual” discussions these days, just sayin’. After all, they can’t grift off folks if Dev exposes their nonsense. 😏

[@TheRoseBoy11]

@@johnseppethe2nd2 you could make a compilation of those leftie essay videos out of context and would be as informative and less crazy then adding the context to it

[@gruvio]

Philosophy is pretty based

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Instead of crumbtube, why not call it "Khan Krum's crumby tum tum, found in the bits of mixed belly button lint and smegma at the bottom of a tube"?

[@Aiphiae]

One of the most frustrating parts of being a teacher is listening to everyone tell me CRT isn't in schools when I can literally hear it across the hall on a daily basis.

[@xuantong8240]

define CRT

[@antimarx265]

Having the red communist fist on their wall is a good start.

[@danielbob2628]

​@@xuantong8240Critical Theory as applied to race

[@thefakebriskeh]

@@xuantong8240 Critical Theory as applied to race

[@jerrymartin7019]

​@@xuantong8240 he says, under a 1 hour long video defining CRT.

[@Silvqr]

"The bulwark against this is ultimately liberal, colorblind, value-neutral policies..." "This is why, when they say, 'you need to give MY group special consideration, we need equity, not equality', you simply need to tell them: 'No.'" 🔥🔥banger video dev

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

If somebody wants special treatment, fuck 'em. Everybody gets a seat at the table, no more no less.

[@saisameer8771]

Sargon's gonna be reeeeing for the next few weeks.

[@myriad9597]

​@@saisameer8771 Why would sargon dislike this?

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

​@@saisameer8771 I've not watched him since about a month after he started the Lotus Eaters, but as someone who used to be a fan of him, he looks like a Fascist now. He's said he's not a Liberal anymore and called London an occupied country.

[@Masami_Salami]

Unfortunately, we can't say "no" when the government says "yes" with out tax money.

[@cosmicm8]

Honestly, explaining what Gramsci’s ideology was to my normie friends was insanely difficult. This sums it up better than I ever had.

[@maskedbadass6802]

I am actually trying to come up with a short definition of "critical race theory" to explain in just a few short sentences that normies will understand, but even after watching this video I am struggling and feel my brain melting.

[@tok3659]

@@maskedbadass6802 1. The inquisition of a new religious consciousness predicated on utopian tenets. 2. A movent to reorder the system so that there is no responsibility for people who inhabit oppressed categories. 3. A Marxist perversion of Civil Rights. 4. A constant cynical critique designed to dissolve Liberal society and end Capitalism. 5. The stigmatization of America as a racist project. 6. Calling anything you want to control racist until you control it through. 7. Moral extortion.

[@lordpisces5019]

​@@maskedbadass6802 "It is the racial branch of critical theory, which says all norms exist to uphold the powerful. In the case of CRT, that means all norms exist to uphold the powerful racial group." There is probably a better word than "norms", but that seems like a start. Maybe" "It is a philosophy which judges ideas based on who benefits from them, rather than truth".

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

​@@gavinsmith9871 CRT and Woke have been overused about as much as racism or sexism at this point.

[@Coffee_paradox]

@@lordpisces5019 Institutions are used to uphold the status quo, via economic force, cultural pressure, education and establishing the “common sense”, against *insert oppressed groups*, and the direct challenge against the current superior group from a purely ideological position is ineffective. As such, a direct confrontation from ideological ground should be avoided. Instead must involve ourselves into the current system and co-exist as we create a counter-hegemony of culture and institutions. By subverting and corrupting the current institutions internally, we destabilise the status quo, and demoralise the general public, paving the way for the eventual revolution.

[@-Gorbi-]

Everytime I hear Wikipedia use “far right” I hear a 4th grader saying “cooties”

[@RAGErkgk]

I just recently had a course in my University where we covered "The Frankfurt School" and I was pretty much the only one providing any critique against the things being taught. Everyone else uncritically just accepted what our lecture covered. Watching this video, I realize that even my university is a part of the sneaking in of Socialism in the west and the fact really makes me sick.

[@SamuelLevant]

That's true of literally every university at least in the west.

[@joelalexis7664]

My guess is that people probably don't want to stand out or feel like they're the only one going "against the group". Similar to how you might have the true answer to a question being made yet you don't answer for fear of being wrong. That's definitely not an excuse to just blindly accept what you're told (I've been guilty of this too) but I honestly think that might be the reason why.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@Joel Alexis true. For some people its mostly about not knowing any better and feeling a sense of reassurance by following the crowd, while also simultaneously feeling a smug thrill from still thinking they're part of a "new" "progressive" "counterculture." Others who were at least brought up with a firmer sense how things should be, but are thrown into that environment, may actually be uncomfortable with the atmosphere and what's being taught, but not yet have the words to properly voice themselves fully. Those are two possibilities in my view. Probably not the only ones of course.

[@SamuelLevant]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 that probably holds true for e.g. many students, but the professors/lecturers absolutely know what they're doing. In their case, it's not a case of ignorance, it's a case of malice.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@Samuel Levant Most definitely. Although, perhaps if I were to give the benefit of the doubt, some professors and teachers are themselves probably also gullible sheep just repeating what they've learned. For a so-called teacher that's obviously not much better of course.

[@kojikashiin319]

“Bad people believe this, therefore it’s wrong.” Reminds me of how they have stopped separating art from the artist. The Cthulhu mythos, Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, none of it is okay to consume anymore if you’re a ‘proper’ human being.

[@MrDj232]

I thought the opposition to AoT was the bafflingly stupid interpretation of the story, not something the author said. Anyone I've seen take issue with people enjoying the series claims that the main characters are fascists and imperialists for attacking the mainland countries.

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

​@@MrDj232isayama is based and stated Japan did nothing wrong.

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@MrDj232these people are aware that the rumbling is not a good thing right, the story never portrays what Eren does is good or just. The whole point of the final arc of the series to show how far someone can fall for their own selfish desires will trying to frame it as doing the right thing. The main villain group of the final arc are literally fascists, that both the eldian and marlyian characters have to defeat in order to defeat eren.

[@MrDj232]

@@leviticusprime4904 I'm pretty sure the hate for AoT came before The Rumbling was started, and mainly was aimed at Eren's preemptive strike on the mainland that dragged the island's residents into a war. This attack on fascists, who were trying to invade the island for its resources, seemed to make people think that the story was some secret imperialist message supporting an invasion of China. Admittedly I wasn't following the manga and I never dug too deep into a controversy that seemed so stupid to me. But I do clearly remember the hate coming before fans started complaining about the ending, and it ramped up about the time the anime got to Eren fighting the Warhammer Titan.

[@raze2798]

​​@@MrDj232The thing with AoT is that the ending is one of the worst endings I've ever seen, and this leads to the conclusion of Isayama's beliefs. The story tries to get the audience to sympathize with Eren by having the main cast all forgive Eren. Unfortunately, this assassinated every single character that forgave Eren becomes that's something they would never do. Eren also doesn't really suffer any consequences for his actions either. All of his friends forgave him and he is remembered fondly by everyone... after committing genocide. Thus, the redemption is botched. As a result, people misinterpreted Isayama's intentions to be the extremist beliefs you've heard of. TL;DR: the ending isn't fascist, it's just horribly written Edit: idk about anything else Isayama might have said, I'm just familiar with the ending specifically because of how much I despise it

[@theenditedranger7556]

It's personally funny to me that you released this video today as my college English professor gave a sort of intro to critical theory to my class today. It was annoying as hell to sit through. It's nice to come home and get a sort of counter lecture after all that brain poison.

[@joelalexis7664]

I suffered through a whole sociology class with the last half of the semester talking about CRT and Intersectionality, it was condescending af but I survived it. Never again I tell you

[@DailyLifeSolution]

Gransci is where socialists are. My country, India is very ripe for Gramsci's theory. I enrolled for Master of Arts degree in History. I saw many classmates indoctrinated by our professors teaching Indian applications of Gramsci's theory. I fortunately did not get indoctrinated because I used to watch videos on American politics and philosophies behind it. If I had not watched them, I would also have been indoctrinated by the syllabus and professors.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

you're getting into lifetime debt to be brain-poisoned and Dev here is educating you for free lmao

[@nudirt1274]

@@DailyLifeSolution my god, it's rife in colleges in our country too?? Thanks for letting me know, we are Doomed.

[@cavalieroutdoors6036]

​@@nudirt1274 nah, there has *got* to be a way to counter this. It's not over until they actually manage to topple the nation. Things *can* swing back to the proper order.

[@jacey320]

Accusing Paul Gottfried of being an antisemite is insane to me, its not like he just has some background Jewish heritage, he's literally a Yeshiva University grad.

[@kaiservenom270]

>Communist does something. >Right-Winger: "You just did that!" >Communist: "Conspiracy theorist."

[@ryanlazarus3381]

You’re close but it’s more like: >Communist does something. >Non-communist: "You just did that!" >Communist: "Fascist conspiracy theorist!"

[@emilianosintarias7337]

What makes this a conspiracy theory is the hidden presumptions and absurd conclusion. It never actually says what's wrong with these ideas, it just says they are the same as what a kgb agent wanted to do to enemy populations. Except their aim is what they see as popular democracy (workers councils), not deep state control. I am sure if the british won in 1776, the american liberals would have similar strategies to Gramsci, and we would be watching videos like this about their evil subversion, IE their using political and military strategy they same as any other ideology that has ever tried to win.

[@LeoVital]

@@emilianosintarias7337 The hidden presumptions are only natural if you read the subtext. It's not like commies who partake in cultural marxism are going to go around and talk about how they have to subvert western culture, because that would be counter-productive to their cause. But knowing what Gramsci wrote is enough for anyone to reasonably conclude that any commie who follows his ideas will eventually do the things that cultural marxists are accused of doing. I mean, Dev in this very video gives examples of Marxists who said the quiet part out loud and wrote about how subversion should actually happen in the sexual side, for example. At least I think so, it's been some time since I saw the video. Read Baudrillard, for example. In Simulacra and Simulation, he writes about how it's pretty much impossible to dismantle Capitalism from within. That Capitalism will use all critique against it as a way to strengthen itself etc. Now read the subtext: if you can't dismantle Capitalism "playing by the rules of the game that Capitalism defined" how would a Marxist proceed? Subversion is an obvious choice. Is it a conspiracy theory? Quite literally yes, because it's a theory that commies are conspiring with each other to subvert western culture. But is it unfounded? Definitely not.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

@@LeoVital It's totally unfounded and all you have to do is read it in historical and political context, and not include the account of any and every co-anything-ist that ever lived. IE, "these people" -ing completely different types of people, different organizations, in different centuries and regions because they both are liberals , or confucians, or christians or marxists is nonsense.There is nothing in your comment or this video that is not the mirror of woke, vulgar, anti-western, Hannah Nicole Jones 1619 project white men =bad. Using scary words like subert or infiltrate doesn't show anything either. Political change can always be framed that way on any side, particularly when everyone is jaling each other, preseeing strikes, vying for parliament. The holes in this conspiracy theory are pretty obvious: Gramsci and socialists like him endorsed mass movements, in fact workers councils taking over factories and towns, and direct democracy. So that goes against this video's and your hysteria that subverting capitalism didn't mean by some deep state thing or a cult, but by their conception of the majority of society itself. And unlike the french fry you mention, they made it clear it would need to go with actual social, economic change. Again, of increasing of democracy. They also wanted to see the culture and thought of common people, the majority again, displace the ideology of a small class of capitalist intellectuals who from their POV, propagandized them and kept them backward, and yet harmonized with what those technocratic intellectuals could teach, to create a modern intellectual conversation across society that would hasten politically change and also help democratically plan it. They wrote about this, you can find it in any encyclopedia of philosophy. You don't have to agree with it to see that these were not Blanqists. From Gramsi's POV, liberal republican capitalists had previously done what he was recommending already, but in less democratic way, when they convinced the regions and cities of that actually they should give up autonomy, and become a single country called Italy. Their idea of a single Italian identity was a project to subvert the provinces and tradition, in favo of a central modern state. In fact liberals did do all sorts of things like this all over the world, it's called politics. Abolitionists tried to getting into key positions and printing papers and setting up schools or getting posts in them, colonialists did, nationalists did,religious people did, various groups did. Keep in mind back then, all sides used violence and repression on each other shutting down prices- crushing strikes, taking over factories, farm revolts, violent suppression of farmers, it was no joke. Anyone could make a video like this about western liberalism, the British subverting India on many levels, the tens of millions who died from it, and claim that "it" was always doomed to end like that. They can say "these people " both claim it didn't happen -look at those nice train lines they built, and that it should've happened, or that it happened but it wasn't representative of liberalism or colonialism which is generally good. It's garbage, like this hysteric, paranoid video where you can literally hear this extremely ideological guy, who debates nobody just bootstrap his claims about the inevitability about communism, socialism, or marxism even when literally telling you it's inevitable everything: centralized militaristic statism marching to take over, secret evil behind the scenes cult, and out of control grassroots direct democracy.

[@anfrex3342]

Guys I need to understand this video but not a native english speaker and the youtube translation sucks. So according to the video cultural marxism is real and under certain lines of thought on the left it is seen as a viable way for their goals and this is used against those who use this term to denounce political agendas by calling them nazis? is this so or am i lost on the idea? please if anyone can answer i would be very grateful.

[@kiofea]

*TL;DW:* While the quote is mostly misattributed it is still completely accurate.

[@willhigdon9782]

My music teacher was outright teaching cultural hegemony from Gramsci in our class and she left out all the parts about how he applied this to the capitalist class. It was honestly really funny to watch as she was spreading blatant marxist philosophy.

[@greganator111]

Why was your music teacher talking about cultural hegemony from Gramsci at all?

[@willhigdon9782]

@@greganator111 It was a unit on "Music and Politics", basically how music has been used in the political sphere. It also talks about the third reich, zimbabwe, the civil rights movement in the 60s, and Portugal, and I'm sure more that she hasn't put on our notes yet.

[@cptndunsel2670]

Should have called her out on it.

[@Xplora213]

@@willhigdon9782 THERE IS NO POLITICS IN MUSIC. You end up reciting Kanye West diatribes if you try to find any. It’s not funny. They are literally wasting the best years of your life with this shit. There are kids who desperately need the time to learn to understand and appreciate art. Here is the thing - there is no place for politics in high school or middle school or elementary school. There is no time for it. If they want to discuss politics, ask why they should be entitled to teach it, given they are exerting unchallenged influence over children. They are the privileged bourgeoisie they claim to hate.

[@markzuckergecko621]

​@@greganator111 communists gonna communist.

[@yeez13]

Just looking at the guy, you could tell he would want to tear down society for not accepting his ideas; if he were alive and introducing those ideas today, he’d be considered a manlet incel just at a glance and torn down online. The only reason his ideas are really gaining traction today have everything to do with the fact he was a martyr that basically had nothing to contribute to society other than complaining about it…which is quite telling, seeing as that’s how many of these people who treat it as a religion see themselves as 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@malicekerendu3574]

The amount of times I've heard "It's not happening" followed by "It's good that it's happening" is astounding

[@aphidamas1]

These well researched videos are good enough that I could easily see someone citing them for their own paper. The thought that a teacher may encounter "Short Fat Otaku" as a their student's source gives me giggles.

[@oldoutlet6946]

It always pisses me off when the main argument for socialists/commies is "capitalism is greed and monopolies are evil." Greed isn't something that can only be found in capitalism, it's a human trait and socialist societies are especially not immune to this. It's just at a much smaller yet more destructive scale because the only ones who are able to exploit wealth are at the top (and they always do sooner or later in a culture that makes it near impossible for anyone not in the 1% to gain power). And with monopolies, I agree. I don't want there to only be one source for my food and material goods since the quality of said goods will be downgraded and more costly since there's no competition. Which is another argument against socialism because the idea of competitive markets is non-existent and is a staple of capitalism and liberalism. Btw, like your home? Welp, in a socialist construct, there's no private property so expect to be kicked out without notice. Dream jobs, entertainment devices, diverse cultures, enjoyable meals, traveling, freedom of expression, social media; all and more gone if you're living in the socialist's dream. Look, capitalism has its flaws. A lot admittingly. But the reason I prefer it is because socialism is just those flaws amplified without any of the good. I'd rather live in a world where some of us are in poverty rather than everyone be in poverty except the elite.

[@hildegardvonbingen9092]

Most monopolies are maintained by the use of state force to introduce artificial market entry barriers for Potential competitors

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

They try to say why monopolies are evil but immediately follow with a defense on why the government having a monopoly on education, healthcare, energy, public security, public transport, etc. Is the best possible thing.

[@eliaspanayi3465]

It seems like socialist societies are more susceptible to greed. Some people are more equal than others.

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

@@DonVigaDeFierroBecause to them. If it’s coming from a central government it’s a “good” thing.

[@xuantong8240]

your entire criticisms of socialism are currently happening in our current capitalist system... goes to show how strong capitalist propaganda is...

[@Torvar]

I remember a few months ago, I told you that I had this idea, that if everything is political, then obviously everything counts as propaganda, and then obviously why would you want anyone else's propaganda out there. You told me this sounded like Gramsci. How long have you been working on this video?

[@ShortFatOtaku]

Since 1923. - Dave

[@blvalverde]

​@@ShortFatOtaku Damn. You're way older than I thought. Looking good for your age, gramps

[@bhutehole]

@@blvalverde dave has the best answers lol

[@markzuckergecko621]

​@@blvalverde that's fake news, he's a time traveller.

[@IndirectSoter]

@@markzuckergecko621 he travelled to the present from 1000 AD to defeat our tyrannical reptite overlords and eventually kill some space parasite by spraying it with Raid

[@Supiragon1998]

These are the kind of of videos you should be making the most often, even if they're not as long as this one.

[@BulkernatorKerb]

You may already know of them but if you like this video style definitely check out Aydin Paladin she is amazing

[@burnypython8230]

I strongly agree with this statement, long videos like these dive into such topics in great detail that you can’t normally get from a 10-30 minute long video.

[@velcor]

@@BulkernatorKerb I love Aydin. Destroys her enemies with facts and good memes.

[@a.cameron207]

I found the textbook you mentioned, Critical Theory Today, a really interesting read. About half way through I came to the conclusion that critical theory was not an epistemology (method by which new knowledge can be generated), but rather an academic formalisation of the rationalising nature of humanity i.e. our tendency to pick evidence that supports our presuppositions, rather than to try and draw conclusions from evidence. In this sense, it is the antithesis of what the academy should be, which may explain why academia is going off the rails atm. Great video btw, I find it really helps to go back over the history and evolution of some of these ideas.

[@williamjenkins4913]

It cant be epistemological since it rejects reason, knowledge, and understanding.

[@k_tess]

@@williamjenkins4913 So anti-science AND anti-reasoning. And they vote Greeaaat

[@Gigadramon6]

The way I like to explain the situation with SocDoneLeft is a fairly vulgar saying, but it gets the point across: "It takes more effort to clean human excrement out of the carpeting than it does to drop your pants and shit on the floor." Basically, sophists like him lie for political points because the lie takes so little effort that it costs them little to nothing to throw out it there like a hand grenade and see whatever benefit they can gain from it. But it takes far more effort to explain why what they're saying is total nonsense.

[@Xplora213]

It is easier to destroy than create… anyone who sees a two year old child playing with an older kid knows this is true. These people are not honest actors, or they are simply dumb. They are the two year old. They don’t need to establish facts. They simply COMMENTATE and OPINE and they are never given the reigns to guide us towards anything.

[@CantoniaCustoms]

Not to mention they serve the powers that be (namely CIA, blackrock) well enough they're basically state sponsored.

[@kxkxkxkx]

A key disinformation tactic: flood the zone with endless garbage until everyone is hopelessly confused

[@Leathal]

Pilpul

[@bandaid6550]

Currently in several classes preparing for my teaching licensure, and I see this all the time. Equity, diversity, inclusion, etc. generally with a focus of "think of the children" attached as the motte for the bailey. Thank you for this video, Dev, it's good to see I'm not just crazy.

[@lostalone9320]

"Think of the children" is an explicitly communist argument, only used where politically expedient.

[@CMacK1294]

"Sardinia's flag is the head of defeated Moors" Say it with me now B A S E D

[@yrooxrksvi7142]

Same for Corsica, except they have only one head. P.s. : Sardinian here, and I'm sorry this half-Albanian little man came from our otherwise beautiful island.

[@an2qzavok]

having a conspiracy is very very easy, in current year all you need is a few friend and a private group chat

[@radimnechut519]

Just look at Kraut.

[@Brian_DJ_Mercedes]

@@radimnechut519 What's up with him?

[@burnypython8230]

@@radimnechut519 Wasn’t the rumors about Kraut doxxing people fake?

[@radimnechut519]

@@burnypython8230 was talking about the conspiracy mainly, which it was whether there was doxxing.. I dont think matters, cause it was just so petty imo

[@radimnechut519]

@@Brian_DJ_Mercedes he 'made' a conspiracy group against J. F. Gariepé in 2017, for what I remember as pretty petty reasons

[@lordpisces5019]

There is nothing new under the sun. The idea that "law exists to uphold the powerful" appears in Plato's republic from the mouth of Thrasymicus as "Justice is the interest of the stronger". I find a lot of the proofs in Plato's writing to be unconvincing, but their reply to Thrasymicus was pretty good; though not easily reproduced for a comment section, as it took the form of a series of questions and answers. What I find more amazing is how often I find the last thing I read is relevant to the current situation.

[@mrt77wv]

I took a critical theory class in 2006, and it turned me pretty hard right.

[@justinambru8529]

based

[@AncientIrishCelt]

Same. Went into a Social Science degree for uni. Ended up just like you.

[@hungrygarfield]

I’m in college now and critical theory is used as a lens for nearly every topic that is taught

[@AncientIrishCelt]

@@hungrygarfield even stem courses?

[@hungrygarfield]

@@AncientIrishCelt I’m in IT and it’s used here. For example, in our database course teams are required to include a DEI section in their write-ups (e.g. what kinds of biases does the data have?) They find ways to weave it into every subject.

[@Trid3nt861]

Socialist 1: "That wasn't real socialism because I wasn't ruling" Socialist 2: "No, that wasn't real socialism because "I" wasn't ruling" Communist 1: "No no no.... It wasn't ideal utopia because I was not in power" Communist 2: "Simple fools, That wasn't Socialism nor communism because I wasn't the one who was ruling and equality isn't reached" Commizar: "Dah, you all get gulag for being useful idiots"

[@aregularperson7573]

I like this video Because you explain the philosophical origins of CRT in a calm and rational manner that doesn’t go off the deep end

[@whm_w8833]

Bruh, it’s goes down the deep end

[@Slender_Man_186]

CRT itself went off the deep end of identity politics, so that’s kind of impossible.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Doing so would just be following the twisted path to where it leads.

[@KuroNoTenno]

It's amazing how much shit the legacy of one person ended up creating.

[@KuroNoTenno]

By the way, academic style list of sources would be greatly appreciated.

[@ohwnosrepeht]

One of the most comprehensive and deepest dives on Critical Theory and Cultural Marixsm I've ever had the honour of watching. Thanks for all your hard work, Dev, Dave, and the rest of the SFO crew!!

[@totallynotaspy2686]

These are the types of videos I subscribe to you for. Thanks dev! I can 100% see where the weeks of absence have gone

[@billylee322]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime... says all I need to know about Christianity not only not being socialist, but the complete opposite of it by teaching personal responsibility

[@arcwiz]

It never was. How can the religion started in 33 AD be something that was unfounded until over eighteen hundred years later?

[@TheStainlessFish]

It would be nice if you could archive the sources and put them in the description. Always useful especially when history is being revisioned.

[@phillidaadamus4349]

Seconded

[@tumamaencosplay]

I feel like the historic context is completely unnecessary to address the validity of the quote. It does not matter if the quote was uttered or not by who it is attributed to, but if it reflects the real world. We all can see leftist activists behaving in exact accordance to that quote, so it doesn't matter if the dude says it, it is real praxis, and pointing it out is not misinformation.

[@viljamtheninja]

@@tumamaencosplay This is just stupid. It is very important to see where ideas come from, and when and how their cultural influence has built up and shifted. Of course it is always valid to say that "Even if this is a misquote, it's still true." But I mean... truth is important. Finding out what people actually said is important. Both because objective truth has value (unless you're a total postmodernist who doesn't believe in it) and because, as I said, it's important to trace the lineage of ideas. If it were not, this entire video would be pointless.

[@tumamaencosplay]

@@viljamtheninja The video IS pontless. Only point of tracing lineage of ideas is if you want to prescribe some nefarious intent behind the idea that must be prevented, which can be real and valid yes, but it's ultimately a useless endeavor even if you are right, because people love to not do a thing about stuff, until it directly affects them. It's all conspiracies until they become real. They will cope, lie to themselves, and do mental gymnastics about the validity of your extremely long analysis (and all analysis become more falible the longer they are), because it's not affecting them directly. Just ask McCarthy, forever used as an scapegoat when anybody wants to PREVENT nefarious ideologies from taking root, because prevention WILL require a degree of totalitarian oppression to work at all. Heck, there are things I could tell you are nefarious and should be stomped with all our strength for the sake of long-term human society, but because that would mean oppressing certain protected groups, you would deem me a looney, until it affects you directly. So, we ought to work with what people actually care about and do act around, what's happening right now that does affect their every day life. We don't need to waste their limited attention span with a full lineage of ideas, but with telling them WHAT is happening RIGHT NOW, why it matters to them, who is doing it, why they are doing it, and what they can DO within their every day life to oppose it in an effective way.

[@phillidaadamus4349]

@@tumamaencosplay kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYuZqGyhpdVlb6c

[@Casavo]

I'm a millennial and all my friends growing up eventually went down this post-modernist path. They left me behind for lack of a better way to put it. My own best friend threatened to kill me on my own front porch after he found out i voted against Obama. I did the exact opposite of all my friends , as the older I get, the more right wing I become as I watch these degenerative fools tearing down the very fondations of the nation I once loved. I'd really like to think we have a path forward but I honestly don't see it anymore. The cancer has spread too far to cut it out now without extreme measures. All I can see doing now is fortifying my own castle and waiting for the showdown to come.

[@GeneralProfessor]

If Gramsci was considered extremely dangerous intellectually why was he allowed to write 30 essays from prison and why were those preserved instead of being destroyed?

[@chilbiyito]

The fascist paid him no mind from the looks of it

[@fruitylerlups530]

a lot of his letters were snuck out numbnuts

[@unknowncommenter6698]

If I got it right, then dev states in video that dude managed to sneak those essays out. That and he "censored" his own essays by not using typical commie lingo

[@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf]

Because fascists are retarded

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

Are you really surprised that the fascists were incompetent?

[@torvor2196]

This may just be your magnum opus. Thank you Dev for this masterpiece. You explained everything that I and a few close friends knew was obviously happening but you connected the dots in a manner I haven't yet seen. Very informative, great job man.

[@carsandsports123]

I like how he says conservatives don't know what CRT is, when what he describes is what most Conservatives say it is.

[@offspringfan100]

There's a difference between most conservatives and their thought leaders. The average redneck is not well read on Marxist theory. Default liberals exist and so do default conservatives

[@undeadwill5912]

They still dont understand it. You can ask them, and they wont have a full understanding of the abstraction.

[@mrwednesdaynight]

We aren't good at articulating the fine details like Dev has done. When when you're arguing with someone online, you can't regurgitate an hours worth the material with sources. Especially when at the end of it all, the commie your arguing with won't be moved by or impressed with your work at all. But conservatives understand CRT.

[@somerandomdude343]

@@undeadwill5912 Does it matter? Conservatives can still identify and fight back against it.

[@HonkeyKong54]

@@undeadwill5912 they? You know every conservative or?

[@Overlordough1201]

You are the beacon of hope for my political mind, and I am forever grateful that I stumbled upon you before I went full Right or Left.

[@kavustock]

I used to work on Capitol Hill for a still sitting Dem US Senator. You don't want to go full either way, but at this moment in time the Right is only partially insane whereas the Left is fully insane. The Left doesn't even tell normal lies anymore. Normal political lies are things Joe Biden says now about inflation or economy; lies, but understandable lies. But things like 2 + 2 5, Men Can Get Pregnant, No Biological Difference Between Men and Women, Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests . . . this is not a normal dimension. And it's scary that the left seems unable to see its own sins.

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

I read that as bacon of hope for a second, and thought it was an elaborate albeit obscure way of calling dev fat. Which would be 100% in line with his audience tbh

[@williamjenkins4913]

@@skinnysnorlax1876 He is my hope of bacon.

[@vistagreat9994]

@@williamjenkins4913 He is Bacon (The Food)'s Hope for Survival.

[@inquisitionagent9052]

@@skinnysnorlax1876 Bacon is hope! Bacon is the will to live!

[@blairdurward4324]

I find it so interesting that every socialist writer is either a very spoiled and privileged person, or someone born into unfortunate circumstances, they also have no romance or family in their lives. I wonder if this type of life experience pushes people towards these ideas.

[@Defixio.]

Dehumanized people dehumanize. Like any other cycle of abuse

[@kaizokujimbei143]

@@Defixio. Or more simply. Misery loves company.

[@chAlfred76]

He had a wife and two sons but ok. And you know, in history, before the commies and unions made education available, stopped child labour and made literacy a thing, it was a tad hard to write and get published for the average person, even harder than today. Also you could get killed or imprisoned. So the written criticism against the current order naturally came from people who had the means and possibility to do so. Usually the illiterate and exploited population (unfortunate) would just strike, sabotage, start uprisings, riot and plunder and rob rich (fortunate) people. Then when unions came along together with other assemblies of unfortunates, even these plebs could publish poetry, articles and books. But you might be correct, maybe it had something to do with the kind of life they had and their experiences they had that made them want to cut the throats of the rich. There is one theory that examines the nature of class societies and why it causes perfectly ordinary people to want cut rich peoples throats.

[@BYNL-]

These breakdowns are some of your best videos. Appreciate you taking the time to make them, they're immensely informative.

[@blzzz]

Bennehh!!!

[@KopperNeoman]

I remember when you were just some guy I often found on MajinD's SRB2 servers. :D

[@BYNL-]

@@KopperNeoman Yeah, small world. (^: Hope you've been well, should catch up sometime.

[@BYNL-]

@@blzzz Blzzz!!!

[@simonpetrikov3992]

Years ago, I thought the purpose of cultural Marxism was to get the proles primed for a revolution before I found out who gramsci was

[@justinambru8529]

Really makes me wonder, were the term RED FLAG comes from.

[@randomcomment6068]

Yeah, 4th industrial. Revolution.

[@Aim54Delta]

"The Left" thinks that a 'new man' is just around the corner, if only all of these old ways, ideas, etc did not poison our potential. The people pulling the strings believe that the useful idiots can be used to reset and/or reprogram humanity to behave in accordance with their ordained system of design. Whereas 'the left' sees religion as a toxin keeping us from being 'new men' who can be in a futa utopia or something, the power brokers see religion as an obstacle to the establishment of their own means of cultural definition and control. Only the state - their state - should be the altar of worship.

[@torshavnnewell]

The prole on a roll taking a stroll meeting a troll paying the toll

[@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf]

@@justinambru8529 soccer

[@samoto6943]

Dude I'm never bored at your videos. They're so dense and important. For strategy, don't freak out tremendously over things with little impact that Socialist's subvert, but don't pretend that its NOT subversion. You just earned a twitch sub my friend!

[@ritalinSolution]

I quick google search of “critical pedagogy” will show you that while the straw man that crt isn’t taught in schools holds up, critical pedagogy is pushed EVERYWHERE in education.

[@limabarreto911]

Dev should do a Paulo Freire video

[@AlphaWolfShade]

Every once and I while, you make a video that reminds me exactly why I subscribed to you in the first place. Great content and amazing dedication to being thorough.

[@baylenlucas8923]

They way these people keep use the word "scholar" is really starting to piss me off. It reminds me of the gamer supremacy memes where people joke that gaming is a patrician intellectual activity(the ones that are like "I am a gamer, not because I have no life but I choose to have many"). "Dinner's ready! Get down here!" "I can't mother I am engaged in scholarship!"

[@slightlytwistedagain]

This is easily one of the most comprehensive videos covering Marxist subversion I've ever come across. Well done Dev, your work paid off in spades.

[@Naxela625]

Dev every couple minutes in this video: "This will have to be another video."

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

Good video, I love that this video focuses mostly on Socialism done left. I have to say I kind of hate how much dev focused on Vaush when from an anti socialist people like Hasan,Second Thought and Hakim are clearly the bigger problem and get no where near the scrutiny. On a related note I love how the video focuses on someone besides Marx. I dislike how much people focus on Marx when most of Marx's beliefs aren't relevant to modern socialist. Lenin is the real problem and the most influential to modern socialist.

[@fxxkuall45663]

Yeah second thought and hakim need more debunking. And sheep in the box too

[@phillidaadamus4349]

Don't forget Yugopnik

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

@@phillidaadamus4349 I guess your right but at least form what I have seen Yugopnik isn't winning people over. He isn't to popular outside of people who aren't already socialist. The reason I mentioned Hasan,Second Thought and Hakim is because they are legitimately convincing people to be socialist in big numbers. Vaush on the other hand I don't think is convincing anyone who isn't already a socialist to be one.

[@worldofwarcraftman2]

Do communists have human rights? If we go by every communist state and example of communists in history then the answer is a resounding NO.

[@johnseppethe2nd2]

Goebbels being pronounced as "Goy-eh-balls" is hilarious.

[@michaelr1225]

gerbilses

[@conserva-chan2735]

Most linguistically articulate Canadian(seriously from Dev to JJ to Rudyard why are they so awful at pronunciation)

[@mkv2718]

@@michaelr1225 gerbils? 🐹

[@ssesssusman9417]

Goyehballs 😂😂

[@afuzzycreature8387]

​@Mk V2 hard G but yes. I don't have a hamster emoji on mobile or else I'd match you

[@etrs]

I love that Victor Serge literally just looks like a more attractive version of Gramsci

[@dix0n778]

Philosophy Dev, now with 50% less estrogen and 200% fat goodness

[@Skullnaught]

he really should stick to this content rather than culture war stuff because it actually address the source of the problems we see in it

[@dix0n778]

​@@Skullnaught agreed

[@michaelasnicar6684]

i love philosophy dev

[@adamwelch4336]

It's not fat it's power! 😂

[@vistagreat9994]

Get those estrogen levels down!

[@connoisseurofcookies2047]

Critical Theory: A User Friendly Guide, Must be one of the more casually horrific book titles out there. Particularly if it's taught in schools beyond the case study use-case.

[@jero37]

I doubt there's any major difference between your text book and the modern ones. I wonder if the "You need the current edition" thing is one of their typical hypocritical money making schemes.

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

Pretty much. Textbook companies have to overcharge and constantly release new editions otherwise they go bankrupt. This isn't to say that we should keep textbooks identical because there are new scientific discoveries and the like that should be included in textbooks rather updating them for the sake of updating them is (to put it bluntly) scummy.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

In engineering textbooks if you check 8th vs 9th or 10th vs 11th editions the only changes are pretty much the problems and the answers to check your work. To the point that professors are like "yeah this semester we'll use problems from the 10th edition in the exams, maybe next semester we'll go back to 9th".

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Lol

[@dargoz8]

So I had pondering about socialism for a bit, specifically the psychology of how it came to be. Since it's constantly stated that communism/socialism is the next stage after capitalism, how is it that capitalism worked where as socialism didn't. It's currently taught that capitalism started in the industrial revolution. So with this notion it makes sense that through another period of change the next economic system can take over. However what they failed to understand is that capitalism didn't start during that period. The concept itself has been around since the tribal periods during the Paleolithic period when the various tribes would trade the various resources they had in excess for whatever they were lacking. It carried on into the bronze age which capitalism became the driving force that brought about the first period of globalization. It's even been the force behind the creation of numerous towns. So to sum it up capitalism didn't start during the industrial revolution, but rather it was because of the british revolution that created a vacuum which allowed the already existing system to fill that void. To sum up my whole rant, socialists think that it's the next step forward but that's utter nonsense because capitalism has always been.

[@juanmccoy3066]

Critical race theory hurts latin and hispanic people. Its particularly harmful to working class chicanos. Lgbtq and trans ideology and race baiting nonsense is not compatable with latin and hispanic culture. Its not compatible with native americans or blacks either. Hispanics tend to have strong work ethics. We tend to be family oriented. Very religious. We have many kids and hate birth control and abortion. We hate racism but wokeism isnt worth it either. We like authenticity and its important to us. We tend to be straight. The gays we have are different than white middle class gays. They dont bang you over the head. Traditionally we onlt had female to male transgenders and it was merelt social transitioning and never affected young children. Lesbians often make themselves into men, sociallly. But they dont call themselves men or male. Men are called vatos so the lesbians that dress like dudes are called "vatas" this isnt something small children and young teens do. Its for gay women that like to do labor work and such. Wokeism is not compatible with ANY of this. They try to change latin and chicano people and thats why we largely reject it. So NOW theres this weird thing where right leaning or people they think are right leaning and people wirh light skin like myself, are being called "white supremacists" and theyre saying "latino people can be white sypremacist becahse they are white hispanic" All hispanics are white hispanic. We descend from spaniards! We are mostly white european. Even brown mexicans know this or they used to. They tried the latinx thing and chicanos and latino people rejected it outright en masse. Especially straight people. But gay people do. They said "we are not non binary or transgender. We will not use this term. The term is latino." And latin is already gender neutral. They show their igjorance because genders in the latin languages have nothing to do with sexual gender except when referencing someone or somethings sexual gender. So when you use latino to refer to the.entire populace its already gender neutrel in the context. It only becomes masculine when you say "el latino" or "the latin man" and "la latina" is the latin woman. But when you say culturo latino or latin culture. It is gender neutral. So the term latinx is useless. And its weird. But middle class white liberals push the term and use the term repeatedly even when latin people say "do not refer to me as latinx" they continue doing it. And will lecture you. And these are the people supposedly fighting racism? Bullshit. They ARE the racists. They are the bullies. They believe the lies theyre fed.

[@PeruvianPotato]

Being Peruvian myself, I get _really_ annoyed whenever someone calls me a "latinx" like dude, is it hard to just call me a Hispanic?

[@Tohfool]

Wokeism is just a democratic safe way to be racist without being called out being a racist

[@williamrockwell9705]

It is as if latrineos should not be in our nations at all or something.

[@Nonameisback999]

Whats funny to me about the leftist seeming obsession with Hegelian dialectics is in the post ww2 era we saw the result of their push towards the meeting of Capitalism as the thesis and Socialism has the Antithesis. In many ways, fascism was the resulting synthesis that panned out, it took both from capitalism and socialism and it did exactly what a synthesis of the two ideologies would do. And yet, to this day, leftists are *still* trying to push this thesis and antithesis. It's almost like causing chaos is the point, huh.

[@justinambru8529]

Of course, they cause chaos. How else are you going to bring about a new revolution in the west?

[@UterDemorog]

Thats an idea people fighting each other while globalists "cut a pie".

[@luminous3558]

It is in the way that its basically just ideas and ideals set loose upon future generations by people who didnt have much of a clue but hated their status quo. Its a guidebook with no goal in mind, just the tools for chaos. Once they have torn down the status quo they will start thinking about a solution and come to the realisation that all they know is destruction and subversion because thats all they were taught. Indoctrinated people dont make great thinkers and the great thinkers are all long dead leaving only their ideas to indoctrinate the future.

[@orboakin8074]

Dev, this is honestly your best video this year. The extensive and objective research and discourse you did was amazing and how you helped explain in a way for us lay folk and non philosophy majors to understand. You and James Lindsay are doing good work.

[@jabslant1993]

It’s a shame that more people don’t watch your vids, Dev. With how informative they are combined with the amount of effort your put into them, I’m always excited when I get a notification that you’ve made a new one!

[@BenjaminABoyce]

This is fantastic, Dev. Will be rewatching repeated until I absorb it all.

[@stefanmironov6405]

Hey guys... I know I know the Trucker video is coming don't worry, I'm just rendering it on a Pentium 3 that's powered by a solar panel and we didn't get much sun here in the last couple of months, but it's coming I SWEAR! Anyway....Let's talk about all the different flavours of Marxism aand yes, spoiler alert >>> they all suck 🥴 but not for the reason you might think 😋

[@romansidorov9067]

James Lindsay is right, when you know what Gramsci means by "history". It has special meaning in Hegel philosophy and gnostic hermetic beliefs.

[@nich0la5]

I wonder if the accusations of dogwhistling isn't just projection on their part. That is, they are so hypersensitive to any remark that offends them maybe coz they're doing the exact same thing they accuse others of.

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

i knew that cultural marxism wiki was full of shit but i never had the philosophical background around socialist theory to put it into words. Great work on this shit

[@hope-cat4894]

24:09 So that's why video games, tabletop games, comics, and other forms of entertainment media are so weird now and won't allow for escapism from politics. Edit: I hope this video gets shown in colleges one day.

[@MissShembre]

It always feel like Socialism goes like this: "And then the mercenaries slayed the dragon, and then lived together happily ever after!" They're so focused on the "dragon" that nobody seems to have the "ever after" sorted out.

[@florkyman5422]

Socialist and communist are honestly some of the greediest people I have ever had the displeasure of talking with. The hatred they hold toward people richer then themselves let's them believe evil things. Like that everyone can be made rich. It's an easy one replacement for religion, economics, and mortality.

[@markzuckergecko621]

They're evil, horrible people. And laughable that they accuse capitalism of being greedy, when capitalism is just a system of keeping what you earn, nothing more and nothing less, and what you earn is equal to what someone else is willing to pay. That's not greedy. Thats fair, even if you feel like it's not fair to you in particular. Socialism is a system where someone who has more than you owes you something, and you owe something to everyone who has less than you. THAT is greed.

[@counterrevolution8077]

They are driven by envy, greed, jealousy, and bitterness, but wrap it in language of compassion.

[@pedrofelipefreitas2666]

It substitutes the utopia provided by religion, Marx said something like "work is only productive when it's not done for someone else (a boss) or to put food in one's belly". What he wanted was a world where work was done for aesthetics not for productivity, where all could eat without having to work for it, "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs". The problem is, you have to take from others to create such a utopia. Which frankly Marx was very ok with doing, as he bled dry his family, his spouse's family and Engels. Marx was a narcissist man-child who threw tantrums because he didn't want to work, didn't want anyone above him and didn't understand the essence of what human life is because he was sheltered.

[@Kdub09swm]

The sheer effort it must have taken to put this together. Good job man

[@alexmiles7039]

God damn! I feel stupid all of a sudden, too many big words for my tiny brain to take in. Shortfatotaku your patience and determination to put this masterpiece together is superhuman levels impressive. I love your work mate keep it up!

[@ethanlevandoski4524]

I can't believe he would even try to justify it's not subversive to change human nature from what is currently held as truth. He is either so ignorant of his values or so evil, considering him an intellectual is laughable.

[@nitroexpress6294]

I didn't realize Otaku was an Italian last name. The more you know.

[@justinambru8529]

Good one.

[@conserva-chan2735]

I absolutely love these in-depth videos analyzing the Western left. Similar videos about the various strains of the Western right would be awesome too.

[@dudsummon3803]

I can summarise conservatism for you. No don't.....well I suppose.....all right.

[@etrs]

@@dudsummon3803 lmao

[@vistagreat9994]

@@dudsummon3803 Conserve our Culture!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@dudsummon3803 😢

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@vistagreat9994 yes!

[@__-tt2ot]

I really like this one. It's a shame these videos don't get the reach that they should.

[@fxxkuall45663]

Thats because youtube supports and pushes breadtube because breadtube doesnt threaten the narrative.

[@johnseppethe2nd2]

​@@fxxkuall45663 i think its just because socialism appears to degenerates and morons more so of course it spreads better.

[@notfunny8550]

This content is very difficult to digest as CRT is not a single definition. It takes hours of research to fully understand the ideology of CRT. If the average Joe cant conceptualize Marxism, then why would they understand CRT? its unfortunaltey a really difficult concept.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@notfunny8550 And they count on exactly that. The war of words for power and control over minds.

[@TotalBlackoutPainting]

Damn, Dev's going all Ayden Paladin on us with the hour long knowledge bomb.

[@4JBrewer]

Yeah, but he's not using a bunch of graphs as Ayden does.

[@limabarreto911]

@@4JBrewer He also isn't strongly shadowbanned.

[@kaminsod4077]

​@@limabarreto911 Not yet anyway.

[@claybass3631]

I love these thorough deep dive videos. Thanks for the education. Always a treat. My pappaw told me, when I was little, "Everyday's a school day, to them willing to learn."

[@Agorizer]

Once again: Dev Is Killin It. I may have to watch this three times, or slow it to half speed, to absorb it all properly.

[@sol-hunter2332]

This was all hella useful info, and like you said about Sargon's studies, a lot of this is me remembering because I see all of this stuff in practice in the world.

[@Ultra_Light_Beam]

Great video. I remember looking up the Cultural Marxism wiki 3-4 years ago and feeling pretty gaslit. I had found a source for the origins of the term, but the wiki was both locked and didn’t have a mention of the origin of the term.

[@_Carlos]

Ah just fucking great, a 1 hour Dev video to start on my 15 minute break.

[@wombraider7796]

I love watching marxists snap when I tell them Marxism is anti Semitic and point to Marx’s “on the Jewish question”

[@williamrockwell9705]

Marxism is simply the jewish mode of being manifesting itself.

[@vanillabeanlady]

Never in my youth did I think I'd go from a propagandized leftie who said things like "sex work is work" to a "far right conspiracy theorist," but here I am.

[@MMDelta9]

many such cases...

[@TheAlterspark]

Glad to see folks like you and James Lindsay calling out this subversion.

[@largeegg6505]

You sound like Whatifalthist, this is right up his alley and I like it

[@flamestoyershadowkill6400]

or mentiswave

[@MA-go7ee]

Stop dismissively saying 'a lot conservatives don't know what CRT is'. They might not know how to succinctly explain it, but they can identify its manifestations which is all the average person needs.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

and it will also fall over at the slightest push. you do need to know these things

[@lifes3ps]

Rudy Deutchke also coined the "long march thru the institutions" phrase around 1967-- damnit you got there 20 min later

[@mfmageiwatch]

In this video, two identical groups called by different names (fascists and socialist) fight because even though they want the same things, they want to be at the top of the power hierarchy, not the bottom.

[@EarthForces]

That is why they are both leftist at the core. Now Dev's "liberalism" is more of what was Conservativism that made reforms after "enlightenment", that was called Classical Liberalism but I guess Dev is aiming for what he calls Liberalism to grow a spine against the radicals on both sides. The only thing Dev lacks is a worldview that can hold consistency in both logical and moral angles. ONLY Conservatism can do that and he knows it.

[@williamrockwell9705]

They are not at all identical, their world views are completely different.