I've only ever seen Breaking Points content through either a Reddit feed, YouTube suggestion, or the TikTok ForYou Page. I was looking a little more into their show and who these hosts were after getting a video served to me today. Krystal Ball is a registered Democrat and one-time failed U.S House candidate for Virginia, and Saagar Enjeti is a political commentator, former White House Correspondent for The Daily Caller, and registered Republican.

They both describe themselves as "Populists", and their show as a "fearless anti-establishment Youtube show and podcast."

I'm not sure how useful the analysis would be from these two. They seem pretty intent on maintaining this "Plurality" of political perspectives thing they have going on. This was the video that got me looking into them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JaVBYptaU

so what's the temp check on Breaking Points?

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https://web.archive.org/web/20201111193858/https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/14/breivik_video_game_torture/

Should we stay for the revolution? If it’s even possible?

I’ve seen some on the internet (mainly TikTok and twitter, sue me) say that moving to another country to escape your problems (this is mostly directed to those in the US and Canada) is a form of colonialism and you would contribute to gentrifying the country you leave to. Do you agree?

I’ve mentioned on here a few times my disdain for living in Canada and how I am happy to leave when I am able, I’ve even had some comrades encourage me to do so if I can, so for a time I was sure that moving was an okay thing to do but now I don’t know. I don’t want to gentrify another nation and I don’t want to abandon people here who aren’t afforded the same privileges as me. I figured maybe I could help from a distance, or at the very least “visiting”to help but not living here, does that make sense?

Anyway, I really wanted to move away but now I’m not so sure and I may be causing more damage by leaving. I don’t want to colonize another place, I’m already a settler in Canada and I wasn’t planning on moving to Portugal either (locals can barely afford to live there themselves). I know I shouldn’t be taking statements made on social media so seriously but I can’t help but take these criticisms into consideration.

It made an impact in 2017

http://archive.today/J2U2M

Compared to Orwell and Kafka on Wikipedia but he seems to be of a different type. What are your thoughts on him and his work?

Does the Montessori model provide a model for how everyone could be educated? Should a socialist project attempt the reconstitution of public education informed by the principles of Montessori education?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089720

> > > Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to: > > prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups. > > > Specifically, D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest... > > 1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate... > > > Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982... > > > I reached this section over here: > > Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia. > > > > Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant. > > Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

Is this a victory for the Fr*nch working class?

Theyve been sanctioned by the us, which is basically a seal of approval for me. Other than that, i think theyve boosted literacy rates by like 10 percent. They also seem to socialist/state capitalist, somewhat like belarus. Dunno anything else about them tbh.

I personally think they're pretty funny

Eric Hobsbawm is an important historian who is claimed to have been a Marxist. At the same time, judging from what Wikipedia says about his book The Age of Extremes, it seems like he has maintained an anti-AES stance (I happen to have the book and was planning to read it in the future).

> It is a central thesis of Hobsbawm's book that, from the start, State Socialism betrayed the socialist and internationalist vision it claimed to uphold. In particular, State Socialism always dispensed with the democratic element of the socialist vision: "Lenin... concluded from the start that the liberal horse was not a runner in the Russian revolutionary race." This anti-liberalism ran deep.

I was wondering what is your opinion on Hobsbawm and his works in general. Is his perspective really Marxist? Does he do actually constructive criticism or liberal apologia? Is it actually worth studying his approach to 20th century socialism?