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This "Praxis Aventures in Living" YouTube prepper guy might actually be a leftist (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dude criticizes The View (for being anti-gun), and conservatives (especially for climate denialism), and how we're all divided through propaganda in order to keep us from blaming "the politicians and the elite" in power, and talks about how bosses often try to keep us from sharing e.g. wage info with our fellow workers....

He literally has "praxis" in the name of the channel, and this particular video is called "Why You're Weak" (no, he's not talking about working out).

His solution is building community, forming relationships, and building "consensus" (even uses that term).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Covid minimizing and floating the idea that there's as many pro universal forced child transing liberals as there are pro school shooting republicans. both-sides

Most leftist ideas can be taken in isolation without posing a threat to bourgeois rule, and people of all stripes do it all the time. We should expect to see subtler and subtler shades of pseudoleftist as the crisis deepens, because bitter experience will have people inventing parts of scientific socialism for themselves, and opportunists will still be wanting to exploit them and lead them away from real theory, so they will cut closer and closer to sounding like the real thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps. Here he seems to actively be promoting building collective organizations and power, though. He's at least strongly pushing the idea that we're "weak" because we allow ourselves to be divided by politicians, bosses, and "the elite". I fully expected it to be another prepper-style "workout routine life hack" type thing, and was shocked he was actually talking about politics. LOL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Collective power is a neutral idea. Once someone details what the power is for, who’s we, who are the rich, that’s when you can start to ascertain politics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He does. He's talking about working class power vs. "politicians and the elite" who divide us e.g. through misinformation. And then also explicitly goes into workers' attempts to share wage info with each other being repressed. He's not using too much leftist jargon (though his channel has "praxis" in the name), but he's most definitely talking about working-class collective power.

I mean, IDK watch the video and see what you think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: