He’s gained popularity in the first place because he predicted Trump will attack Iran.
The above has the same value of merit as crypto analysts touted as esteemed oracles because of the serendipity of past price predictions. Liberalism equates positivism with science (which is partly why “racial” science existed as a thing).
His whole channel is what happens when historical materialism is rejected while attempting to explain historical phenomenon inadequately explained by “mainstream liberalism”. Go through that guy’s video channel and please let me know at what point he emphasises significantly class struggle or even means of production in any of his >100 videos. It all becomes essentialising civilisational cultures or equivalents and retrospectively explaining an outcome much like tea leaves reading.
His channel is more interesting about discovering parts of historical perspectives that one may not have come across before for further reading and exploration. He may or may not get several facts right but what leaves wanting is the explanatory power of understanding said facts.
Capital that has developed western supremacism will allow for any narrative to persist and proliferate that scapegoats its own culpability, including modern equivalents of protocols of zion.
It would be worthwhile for self-claimed marxists to learn what positivism is, why it is not marxist and how to supercede it to produce a deeper science.
Book recommendations include:
- Dialectical biolgist by Lewontin
- Rethinking 21st century: war and revolutions by Losurdo
- even Edward Carr’s work
If anyone has good youtube videos or online articles then please feel free to post. On this particular topic I don’t recall an easy beginner guide that breaks down why positivism is wrong though I haven’t searched for one recently.
Wait til you find Efraím Palvanov…
Because they dont really want people to become based revolutionaries with a holistic understanding of the world.
Because Youtube is in bed with the zionists and the zionists love anti-semitic conspiracy. Nothing convinces people of the need for the zionist project better than hate and lies about Judaism.
I heard a similar conspiracy that Christianity was created by the Romans to pacify rebellious Jewish revolts.
What’s wrong with this video in particular?
Persians constructed the Jewish identity
Ooh boy are we in for some crank…
Wow. What a way to offend… everybody.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
