He somehow seems to think, still, that he can shape the Democrats. "If I thought there was a viable 3rd party do you think I would be voting for them? Fuck no" he says, after scolding someone in his chat, calling them an ultra, for calling him out for his continued connection to the democrats.
But lets think about this for a second...
how the fuck
do you build
a fucking party
do you do it by voting for, another party
do you do it by telling people to vote for another party
or do you do it by building A FUCKING WORKING CLASS PARTY
LIKE FUCKING LENIN SAID
I don't really understand what Hasan thinks these Democrats are supposed to "DO" in this situation. "They're not DOING it!" he yells. What is "IT"? Go against their class interests, defy the fundamental laws of capital and somehow break free of their social relations through pure force of will? His proximity to the Democratic Party is what breeds this weird fucking obsession he has.
"These guys are mad because they talk to ME and not their Pedo sex cult leader, that's why they're mad". What if they didn't talk to you, though? What if tomorrow they just stopped talking to you at all? What if the only reason they talk to you AT ALL is that they know that you have a huge fucking audience, and you are actually effective at moving people to the left? So instead, they give you cookies and treats, they give you access and interviews, they let you into the DNC, they give you access to candidates, like Zoran.
I really do think at this point, that he is being catfished by the Democratic Party. That they understand that he is an effective communicator, and they have somehow convinced him that if he just keeps at it, he can one day kick that football for real.
It's good that Hasan exists.
It's good that communists online criticise him relentlessly.
Hasan takes people from being slightly left of dem and delivers them into the ideas of Lenin while maintaining his position with democrats in order to maximise his audience and the number of people he pulls left.
The criticism of Hasan takes those pulled leftwards and pulls them even further leftwards, fully into organising. Unlike Chomsky who actively told people not to do that, Hasan encourages it or at least offers no barrier and even chastises those who would attempt to stop people moving further left.
Every component in the pipeline is good and necessary. Hasan has a role and he is playing it fine, everyone should loudly and continue to criticise him for it though.
The Correct Dialectical Take
True. We can't be dirty French accelerationists. It doesn't work.
Like what are people expecting of Hasan? If they want Hasan to promote their party and fund it or whatever, then go make one and get his support. I'm not opposed to being more proactive even here, like let's try to build something, but when I say that I'm told that this is a place to shitpost not build something :/
Then I go join an org somewhere else and people here would say they're not good enough either. But every place that says that refuses to do anything when I approach them. I can't tell if feds or just desperately lacking self-crit.