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[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

maybe you're right...the word is not totally appropiate to define his actions, but we can't ignore the material conditions: he's a streamer who gets big money from a streaming platform in capitalism, owned by people that surely don't appreciate marxism or too militant leftism

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Oh I agree completely on that. It's important to take that kind of stuff into account and be wary of those who are, by their position in life, incentivized to act in various ways against the interests of the international working class, the marginalized, etc.

To use myself as an example: Even though I'm no petty bourgeoisie streamer, I would expect an ML analysis to have some wariness pointed at me because I live in the imperial core and so my conditions are going to incentivize me to be more protective of the status quo than someone who lives in an imperialized country. That doesn't mean I'm de facto a less trustworthy person, or that I must necessarily have a worse understanding of the world than people in an imperialized country, but it does mean that broadly speaking, it makes sense for international efforts and analysis to take that dynamic into account when considering how to organize, where to put the most attention, and so on.

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