The Leftist Pipeline Back to Marxism-Leninism is a clip by Haz of Infrared.[1]
Outline / notes
- 0:00 Responding to Hasan Piker
- What Grimes said was more intelligent than what most of the US Synthetic Left says
- Marxism-Leninism is the pinnacle of human thinking
- 4:20 Haz explaining the cycle:
- Start as a Tankie, a Marxist-Leninist
- Become critical of ML-ism, become an anarchist or Noam Chomsky Libertarian Socialist
- or Trotskyism, like Jacobin Magazine
- Left Communism
- The hipster path: John Lucas and Guy Debord
- The Intellectual path: Zizek, Hegelianism
- "Capital lover" value-form theorist, Platypus Society
- Endnotes, Post-Left
- Althusserians might read about Nick Land, Accelerationism
- Accelerationism connects you to Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Martin Heidegger and many others
- "But if you're really smart, you'll come back to Marxism-Leninism"
- 10:51 Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov is a good gateway to this return-to-Marxism-Leninism revelation. Also Boris Groys.
- 11:27 Nick Land's fan base doesn't understand his philosophy