Your analysis continues to be cogent and relevant. I'll share what I can in current local "resistance" gatherings and organizations. Do you think this is an especially opportune moment for change--I hesitate to say, "revolution"--to occur? There's stuff happening all over the country. (I'm in New Mexico.) I can almost visualize it in the big US cities where communication and organization are especially possible. Anyway, no better time than the present. Your place in it all is really important. Thanks.
Thanks for the introduction to Avakian. Would love more book recommendations. I bought The Arms of Krupp, too. Could knock a Jehovah’s Witness out with that heavy volume. 👍🏻
Paul, a fantastic insight on the intimate relationship of Capitalism and Fascism, especially in America.
I see Amerikan Fascism as a logically slicker techno driven variant. Lewis Lapham described this as our unique American ability to create “the best version of Fascism the world has ever seen.”
I would agree totally with your point that high level Capitalists have always embraced the 5 Stops, plus Christo-Fascism.
Buried in the slime of American style fascist ideology are the huge contributions we Americans have made to our Imperial fascist Europeon forefathers. Slavery, race laws, eugenics; the genocide of indigenous people as the “other”. All this is driven by the utter self righteousness of a Calvinistic, sociopathic select “chosen by God people”. A select few born of the right ancestors, to rule us all and sanctioned by God to rule the fiefdom with impunity.
One among many of the many threats before us, is what as Gen. Milley, no less described is that of Trump activating his Reichstag moment.
This time the “tech” employed will not be limited to a IBM punch card system to track “Jews and Communists” for genocide. It will employ AI. The implications of this are of course staggering.
Again, my deepest thanks to you for the gifts of sanity and intelligence.
It's clear to me that if it isn't utilized to create a new framework for human relations that rids us of the existing social structures it will be used to enslave the masses or if things get out of hand it could possibly kill us accidentally or purposefully. Oh yeah, not to mention autonomous killing machines doing the bidding of the rulers. That's scary to think about.
Once again the competitive private profit motive is going to destroy the potential for something that could be used constructively for the good of humanity as a whole.
This is going to be a major and the most consequential inflection point in human history I would say.
John, we are in complete synch on AI as the primary means of Fascist control.
I can easily see it used to correlate the government data stolen by Musk’s minions to categorize and target in seconds huge numbers of Americans as enemies.
You may recall Trump’s praise of Orban in Hungary, whose authorities reportedly monitor opposition figures, journalists, and activists using both legal and illegal means. There was a scandal in 2021 when an international team of investigative journalists revealed that the government used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to surveil journalists, lawyers, and opposition politicians.
AI teamed with pegasus types of software is not just Orwellian sci-fi, it is China right now.
A lie...a liar that never believed his own lies and leached off of those that trusted him... Socialist ideas have sunk capitalism...and socialism is the path to communism...communism cannot be forced or it's not even communism it's a death cult...
I was unaware that capitalism has been sunk --- that will be quite a welcome news flash for the world's billions of super-exploited wage-earning toilers! :)
Crony capitalism has prevailed since Jackson...Jekyll Island made that pretty clear...Socialism has been leaking it's way in ever since...communism is the diseased fetus...
Your analysis continues to be cogent and relevant. I'll share what I can in current local "resistance" gatherings and organizations. Do you think this is an especially opportune moment for change--I hesitate to say, "revolution"--to occur? There's stuff happening all over the country. (I'm in New Mexico.) I can almost visualize it in the big US cities where communication and organization are especially possible. Anyway, no better time than the present. Your place in it all is really important. Thanks.
Yes, there is real radical potential in this moment.
Thanks for introducing me to Avakian’s 5 stops
Great words. Thanks!
Thanks for the introduction to Avakian. Would love more book recommendations. I bought The Arms of Krupp, too. Could knock a Jehovah’s Witness out with that heavy volume. 👍🏻
More fun with the transcript bot: at 9:32 the bot came up with “classroom itself”.
What?
Listened and watched: class rule itself.
But that transcript bot is amazing and generally works quite well, as long as you’re still capable of recognizing the nonsensical.
This video makes great points that help me grapple with many questions. Thanks!
Paul, a fantastic insight on the intimate relationship of Capitalism and Fascism, especially in America.
I see Amerikan Fascism as a logically slicker techno driven variant. Lewis Lapham described this as our unique American ability to create “the best version of Fascism the world has ever seen.”
I would agree totally with your point that high level Capitalists have always embraced the 5 Stops, plus Christo-Fascism.
Buried in the slime of American style fascist ideology are the huge contributions we Americans have made to our Imperial fascist Europeon forefathers. Slavery, race laws, eugenics; the genocide of indigenous people as the “other”. All this is driven by the utter self righteousness of a Calvinistic, sociopathic select “chosen by God people”. A select few born of the right ancestors, to rule us all and sanctioned by God to rule the fiefdom with impunity.
One among many of the many threats before us, is what as Gen. Milley, no less described is that of Trump activating his Reichstag moment.
This time the “tech” employed will not be limited to a IBM punch card system to track “Jews and Communists” for genocide. It will employ AI. The implications of this are of course staggering.
Again, my deepest thanks to you for the gifts of sanity and intelligence.
Second the AI thing
It's clear to me that if it isn't utilized to create a new framework for human relations that rids us of the existing social structures it will be used to enslave the masses or if things get out of hand it could possibly kill us accidentally or purposefully. Oh yeah, not to mention autonomous killing machines doing the bidding of the rulers. That's scary to think about.
Once again the competitive private profit motive is going to destroy the potential for something that could be used constructively for the good of humanity as a whole.
This is going to be a major and the most consequential inflection point in human history I would say.
John, we are in complete synch on AI as the primary means of Fascist control.
I can easily see it used to correlate the government data stolen by Musk’s minions to categorize and target in seconds huge numbers of Americans as enemies.
You may recall Trump’s praise of Orban in Hungary, whose authorities reportedly monitor opposition figures, journalists, and activists using both legal and illegal means. There was a scandal in 2021 when an international team of investigative journalists revealed that the government used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to surveil journalists, lawyers, and opposition politicians.
AI teamed with pegasus types of software is not just Orwellian sci-fi, it is China right now.
You lost me at " quoting Marx "...peace brother...
Marx, probably "the greatest living thinker" of his time and arguably before and since. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/death/burial.htm
A lie...a liar that never believed his own lies and leached off of those that trusted him... Socialist ideas have sunk capitalism...and socialism is the path to communism...communism cannot be forced or it's not even communism it's a death cult...
I was unaware that capitalism has been sunk --- that will be quite a welcome news flash for the world's billions of super-exploited wage-earning toilers! :)
Crony capitalism has prevailed since Jackson...Jekyll Island made that pretty clear...Socialism has been leaking it's way in ever since...communism is the diseased fetus...