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'''BreadTube''' is a group of online content creators, mostly YouTube channels and Twitch streamers, who claim to promote left-wing ideas (socialism, communism, anarchism) while still parroting certain pro-imperialist talking points. This contradiction has led to suspicion and inquiry into who's behind the BreadTube phenomenon. | '''BreadTube''' is a group of online content creators, mostly YouTube channels and Twitch streamers, who claim to promote left-wing ideas (socialism, communism, anarchism) while still parroting certain pro-imperialist talking points. This contradiction has led to suspicion and inquiry into who's behind the BreadTube phenomenon. | ||
Its name comes from Peter Kropotkin's ''The Conquest of Bread'', which is ideologically anarcho-communist and is often used by so-called "anti-authoritarian" socialists. (who are nothing more than utopian socialists, as | Its name comes from Peter Kropotkin's ''The Conquest of Bread'', which is ideologically anarcho-communist and is often used by so-called "anti-authoritarian" socialists. (who are nothing more than utopian socialists, as Engels famously described<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm</ref>) | ||
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