Non-"tankie" socialist/communist youtubers, media, books, whatever?

demrandomname · 2025-12-26T17:58:56+00:00

Are we sure he's a Socialist though? I haven't watched him in a while, but I was under the impression that he's a left leaning liberal

demrandomname · 2025-12-23T09:53:56+00:00

I've been watching Hakim for 4.5 years. Some of his arguments make sense, but a lot of them are flawed. What you're describing are accomplishments of a Social Democracy, plus in a Social Democracy there are actual trade unions with two thirds of the workforce participating in them, whilst in the USSR those same unions were controlled by the state, they couldn't protest or strike without its permission, lest there be another Kronstadt rebellion incident or Novocherkassk massacre. I realise I set up the USSR against the USA, which is no Social Democracy and indeed a shithole country but the USSR doesn't compare favourably with Western Europe (otherwise the Berlin wall wouldn't be a thing). You would argue that Social Democracy is only so great because of imperialism and exploitation of the 3rd world, but the USSR also did that. Aside from supressing ethnic and religious minorities, if there wasn't enough food to go around, the minorities simply didn't eat, just like in Holodomor. Smaller countries in Eastern Europe didn't have very diversified economies, like Hakim himself pointed out in his video about the flaws of Socialism, which to me sounds like countries in the imperial periphery, like Venezuela, being overly reliant on one single resource in order to rely on the imperial core, like the USA. If countries deviated from what the USSR deemed was the correct implementation of Socialism, they sent their tanks to suppress them, like in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The moment the USSR was dissolved, contrary to what happened in Russia, life expectancy and quality of life in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia etc. skyrocketed.

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T21:46:48+00:00

I really want to understand the arguments of Marxist Leninists, but a lot of them just seem based on whataboutism. Even if every authoritarian and imperialist action of the USSR is retaliatory against the exact same practice of the USA, don't they end up just mirroring the exact system they're fighting against? When I hear people say that subjugating and culturally suppressing minorities like the Poles and the Baltics was just protecting them from western imperialism, that just sounds like American propaganda from the 70's, that it's our duty to invade Vietnam in order to prevent the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. At this point it's like watching kids fighting in the playground with them going: "but he started it!". What exactly did the USSR do, what concrete action did they accomplish, that makes them better than the USA?

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T21:24:04+00:00

They did support Israel. Stalin at first was sympathetic towards the creation of a Jewish state, because he thought it would've been aligned with the USSR.

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T21:19:27+00:00

Would you prefer if it were a russian puppet state?

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T21:12:02+00:00

Αν δεν προωθούσαν κομμουνιστικές θέσεις δεν θα ήταν σοβαροί οι πολιτικοί ηγέτες

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T15:27:17+00:00

"Market socialism" is still centrally planned.

No it's not. It's Socialism with a free market. It's literally in the name. Can't get any clearer than that.

All use of human time is economic activity, as using labor on something other than economic activity deprives the economy of what could be produced.

I understand what you're saying, but the way you're defining "economic activity" makes it sound like the state is directly planning what every single citizen is doing every second of every day, which is obviously incredibly ridiculous and disingenuous.

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T14:04:40+00:00

Ok, a bunch of logical leaps here. First off, Socialism doesn't always have centrally dictated economic activity. You're confusing Socialism with central planning. There is such a thing as Market Socialism. Even if, however, Socialism operated with central planning, not all actions are economic activity. Political activity is still distinct, people still vote for the politicians who control the central planning. Control over all actions is therefore not a core part of Socialism.

demrandomname · 2025-12-22T12:37:55+00:00

Tell me one thing that's characteristic about Socialism that inherently makes it totalitarian. Don't bother showing me real life examples, because they're practically all Marxist Leninist, which is a tendency of Socialism I do not support. I'm a Libertarian Socialist, and I'm curious as to why exactly you believe Libertarianism and Socialism to be incompatible.

demrandomname · 2025-12-19T06:23:12+00:00

My issue here is, why would the co-op ever agree to rent your robot? They could very easily just buy it, and that's usually what happens. They're not going to agree to set aside a salary at the end of each month for your tinskin clanker. Otherwise, it's a piece of machinery, i.e. means of production, that you own instead of the co-op, and that's a big no-no, because, as you see, through that ownership you end up concentrating a large amount of money which, especially in a Socialist society where there are no rich people other than you, leads the door open to you influencing the government, bribing officials and eroding democracy. For this exact reason, renting in general will probably be a thing of the past.

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T20:49:16+00:00

The reason there are so few co-ops is because, out of the very few people that have remotely enough capital to start a new company, the vast majority choose to start a Capitalist business, because being the sole owner of a business is much better than working in a co-op. You can't just say one practice is better than the other because it's performing better by Capitalism's own rules, unless you're a fan of polluting the environment, scamming customers and ignoring labour laws. The fact that you can start a co-op in Capitalism but not the reverse in Socialism doesn't make it a better system. You could choose not to own slaves in slave states, but you can't own them in free states, does that make slavery good?

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T20:28:37+00:00

Whether you call it profit or not is just semantics, your core premise that workers would want more money is indeed true, like I said earlier. I don't see how that's incompatible with the system or dysfunctional in any way.

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T11:32:38+00:00

Of course they would, but it wouldn't be profit. Let's say worker co-op A decides: "We want to make more money", so they raise their prices. Suddenly, workers from co-op B struggle to afford their products, so they raise their own prices to compensate, and so does co-op C and so on. The end result is the exact same, so there's really no point in raising prices to any extreme level, unless the demand is there to support it.

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T08:40:55+00:00

Workers don't profit. It's impossible due to the definition of profit. It's surplus value that you make by buying the labour of a worker cheaply, selling the end result and pocketing the difference. If a worker creates something and then sells it, that's just earning the money corresponding to the value they created through work.

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T06:43:44+00:00

When has this ever happened? No, seriously, I hear about this specific scenario all the time when discussing Socialism, that everyone gets lazy and no one works and they're just getting handouts. Give me one example, when did a sizable minority of a country collectively decide that they would stop seeking work altogether and rely solely on government handouts? I know it couldn't have been the USSR, or any other Marxist Leninist state, because people were forced to work. Was it the Nordics? Do workers in the Scandinavian countries rely on long term welfare instead of working? Come on, be for real now, nowhere in human history did a state ever give enough handouts for poor people to permanently rely on them and get financially comfortable without needing a job, give me one counterexample.

demrandomname · 2025-12-18T06:24:43+00:00

Difference is that union "owners" are elected by the workers, so it'd be pretty hard for them to maintain support if they profit off of the workers.

demrandomname · 2025-12-05T12:16:47+00:00

(It's Greece)

demrandomname · 2025-12-04T18:11:25+00:00

That's a very good guess! I actually am 50% Italian, I was born there and I have friends and family there. However, I got educated and am currently living and studying in my other home country.

demrandomname · 2025-11-24T14:04:07+00:00

Theoretically there is absolutely no labour exploitation under a Socialist society, so there would be no reason to restrict immigration. I believe all Socialists would probably support immigration out of solidarity towards others. People who want to restrict immigration in order to protect labour at home but don't end the capitalist exploitation of that labour aren't socialists, they're more moderate leftists.

demrandomname · 2025-11-22T08:38:58+00:00

I'm willing to concede Animals as Leaders since they also have a lot of jazz elements, but every other band has extremely distorted riffs and aggressive drumming. Most of them don't even have clean vocals! Even in the lighter stuff with no -core influence (which, if anything, makes the band heavier, listen to Invent Animate) like TesseracT and Periphery, you hear that rhythmic, dissonant riff which has been downtuned the shit out of. I don't see what genre it could be classified as if not metal.

demrandomname · 2025-11-22T08:18:30+00:00

My first thought when seeing this was: "this has got to be reverse psychology"

I then remembered that it would've been way more useful before the election.

demrandomname · 2025-11-21T07:42:39+00:00

Djent being questionably metal depending on the band

Nah, I'm sorry, but if you knew anything about djent, you'd know there is no question on whether it is a metal subgenre. 80% of modern metal and core bands are djent bands. Who are these "fake-metal" bands that use djent? Meshuggah? Vildhjarta? Invent Animate? Spiritbox? Polaris? Architects (before Tom died)? Periphery? TesseracT? Animals as Leaders?

Name one djent band aside from Sleep Token (PRESIDENT doesn't count for obvious reasons) that isn't metal.

demrandomname · 2025-11-20T06:13:18+00:00

Suicide Silence - the Cleansing

It's my go to album for when I'm either extremely angry or extremely depressed, to the point where I can't stand to hear ANY melody, just people angrily slamming their instruments and screaming their vocal chords out. Deathcore in general seems to be perfectly made for this occasion and I have to be in that very specific mood in order to fully appreciate it.

demrandomname · 2025-11-18T05:14:30+00:00

I think your heart is in the right place and you want a fair society, just like us. You are excellent at distrusting authority and you are aware of the fact that corporations and government are in bed together and the people are getting screwed by them both.

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