Watching youtube vids/podcasts isn’t a replacement for reading tbh, most who do this turn into retarded pseud MLoids who just parrot shit without actually understanding what they’re saying, and most of the youtube scene is dominated by those types.
Watching youtube vids/podcasts isn’t a replacement for reading tbh, most who do this turn into [self-described Stalinists] who just parrot shit without actually understanding what they’re saying, and most of the youtube scene is dominated by those types.
And that’s why studying and reading is a bit better?
Pretty much. It’s always better to read the original work and see what’s actually being said within the context and forming a coherent materialist view, rather than making yourself open to manipulation via being told what to believe, leaving out information (which is unavoidable for abridged marxism) that might be inconvenient for subsequent narrativization and so on.
Not when someone is still learning about what capitalism is and how it works, how it relates to class society as a whole, what its contradictions, roots actually are and so on. One has to first learn about what they’re fighting against before delving into deeper things like tactics or exactly how society would be transformed, otherwise you’re just going to be making the same mistakes as utopian socialists of 19th century, or online socialists who haven’t read anything and just going by vibes.
Marxism is as much revolutionary as it is explanatory, without all the ideology and ‘oughts’.
Watching youtube vids/podcasts isn’t a replacement for reading tbh, most who do this turn into retarded pseud MLoids who just parrot shit without actually understanding what they’re saying, and most of the youtube scene is dominated by those types.
That being said, I’d recommend these 2 channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@RoseMediaYT makes bangers on topical marxist positions and going in depth on them
https://www.youtube.com/@Ultradogmattick/featured goes into history, but it’s a bit boring
And that’s why studying and reading is a bit better?
Pretty much. It’s always better to read the original work and see what’s actually being said within the context and forming a coherent materialist view, rather than making yourself open to manipulation via being told what to believe, leaving out information (which is unavoidable for abridged marxism) that might be inconvenient for subsequent narrativization and so on.
isn’t a contemporary context and transition plan necessary given the failure of the previous attempts
Not when someone is still learning about what capitalism is and how it works, how it relates to class society as a whole, what its contradictions, roots actually are and so on. One has to first learn about what they’re fighting against before delving into deeper things like tactics or exactly how society would be transformed, otherwise you’re just going to be making the same mistakes as utopian socialists of 19th century, or online socialists who haven’t read anything and just going by vibes.
Marxism is as much revolutionary as it is explanatory, without all the ideology and ‘oughts’.