"Remembering Tomorrow"

[rayMESHUGGAHban]

Loved it; inspirational, motivating. Spread it!

[TheWALOS]

Haha, this is the third talk I've seen him give, and he never fails to hit the mic. Awesome speaker, though.

[Tuathalful]

Talking about activist organisations being structured hierarchically like corporations strikes a cord with me. I was part of a small regional branch of an organisation once. When we went to the capital for mass event I met some great people but at least one that regarded me as unworthy of report or conversation and barked orders at me during the event. The occasion may not have been representative of his behavior generally, but i felt somewhat demoralised and alienated.

[2882890]

What I am shocked about is that my views correlate a lot with what he says, same with Chomsky. Thats one of the main reasons I like him, I don't feel like a weirdo thinking the way I do because I'm not alone in thinking these things, even in a very nuanced sense.

[paulb0188]

do you have the q and a section?

[paulb0188]

Albert is a breath of fresh air. Spot on.

IMO, leftists start with Micheal Moore, and after a while move onto Chomsky. They eventually gain a very nuanced understanding of capitalism/world affairs. Not many, however, get a nuanced understanding of a better alternative "anarchist" participatory economy. Which is why we become percieved as perpetual whingers with no substance.

[2882890]

I am literally right there with you. I think thats exactly what happens. It happened to me anyway.

[nocturnezero]

@paulb0188 I dunno. Those who come to the anarchist-left seem, to me, to grow out of free marketeer right-libertarianism just as much as straight-up liberalism.

[jdugmar]

@nocturnezero Most left anarchist I know actualy were attracted to some sort of socialist organization, but felt they were too dogmatic, and that (after further investigation) found the lenninist maxist ideas to be totalitarian, but they still found value and importance in revolutionary ideas so as to not give up on them. Anarcho-syndicalism offers an alternative to top down unionizing and patronizing communist parties.

[agapeiron]

@jdugmar Let's keep in mind, though, that anarchism has always been a "left" thing, and that only right wing conservative free marketeers like Murray Rothbard (who admitted he wasn't an anarchist) and neo-fascists (like "National Anarchists") have begun to appropriate the name for themselves. Hence the idea that there are "right" anarchists, hehehe. So anarchists have always been anti-capitalist and left wing, they just tended to disagree on analysis and strategy.

[eustatic]

resistance em pee three

[eustatic]

thanks for posting this. it's a better version of his "anarchist economics" talk than i've heard elsewhere

[pennilesscripple]

this is so great

thank you very much for posting

[maprov]

Thanks for posting this!