00:59:37.180Like if he says parasitic class, this is the only way you might get Jews to hate you.
00:59:41.240Or like the one third of all Canadian citizens who is dependent on the government for income, whether because they're government employees or because they're on like permanent disability or like that doesn't exist in a free market capitalist society.
01:17:25.580It's the party of the future, right? You know, sometimes I think about what it must be like to be one of these people, you know, to be a leftist and still infused with pride when you see these things.
01:17:40.020Because people like us, we can be pretty, you know, forward thinking. We don't get enough credit for being as forward thinking as we are on the side of things.
01:17:47.340But we are often critical of ourselves like, oh, we're just doing too many. We do successful protests, but we still say, well, what's the point of a fucking protest?0.98
01:17:55.200like what's the point and sometimes people are right they're right like what is the point of0.95
01:17:59.040what are we actually accomplishing but kind of like you know if you ever sit down and say man
01:18:04.060must be nice to have down syndrome like wouldn't it be cool to have down syndrome and just
01:18:08.940your your your thing is that you're really into karate and you're really into hot dogs
01:18:16.140and that's it and a good day for you is both of those things happening at once it's the best day
01:18:21.880yeah yeah and then but that that's this like we look at we got 15 guys in a room
01:18:28.800and we're doing it and you're not all because you're not actually forward thinking that must
01:18:34.220be nice it must be nice to feel good well the other thing i was saying is like we they have
01:18:39.540that worldview that like as long as you're doing something anything even if you're digging a hole
01:18:43.680and filling it back in you've contributed because if they didn't believe that they wouldn't believe
01:18:48.200in communism in the first place the whole point to communism is you get paid based on how hard you
01:18:52.260try i mean what with us it's the opposite not that we're all like so super capitalist but the idea is
01:18:58.560you get paid for your actual worth right like when we do we have a protest and it actually has an
01:19:03.760effect if it doesn't have the the it doesn't have the moonshot effect that we wanted we're
01:19:08.320disappointed in it because even though it won it didn't win to the extent that we desired yeah
01:19:14.740You can say something about Marxism that might sound a bit far-reaching for me, but Marxism, like what they say about Hegel, seeks to be the end of politics.
01:19:30.300Just like Hegel, they say, was the last philosopher.
01:19:44.740And I don't think I'm being uncharitable when I say that.
01:19:48.080But interestingly, you know, Marxism emerges as an ideology, just like fascism does, which really grows from the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment.
01:19:58.760Like it is a distinctly like you don't get Marxism without the Industrial Revolution, I don't think, because it's conceptualization of what the surplus is, I think, requires automation and machination.
01:20:11.120But point being that I don't think Marxism can exist outside of an ideological context.
01:20:18.900It can never be anything but that because, you know, for people like us, when we engage in a plan or ideology, we actually have results.
01:20:26.960We have an end game in mind so we can measure KPIs, key performance indicators.
01:20:33.220We can tell if what we're doing is working or not.
01:20:36.820And, you know, even Democrats can figure that out.
01:20:38.580But Marxists, it's this amorphous thing that it's strengthened the more ideology is applied to it and the more ideology it can react to.
01:20:49.060But it can never exist outside of an ideological context.
01:20:52.060And this would be the worst thing to say to a Marxist because they believe they already exist outside of ideology.
01:20:58.420It would probably enrage them to believe that they are slaves to the concept or framework of ideology.
01:21:05.760But it is a purely a product of what we may call theory selling or ideological investigations.
01:21:12.480But it can never be. And if you look at the development of Marxist philosophy of the 20th century, which we have done, it's interesting stuff.
01:21:20.140But it is rabbit holes and then rabbit holes. It's downward spiraling.
01:21:22.980That's how you get a Slavoj Zizek, where he's building upon Deleuze and Lacan and building sort of like a psychosexual view of the universe.
01:21:32.460that's where you get our last thing we talked about spinal catastrophism that book on the last
01:21:37.540episode about geotrauma and how trauma dictates the form of the universe and it's projected from
01:21:44.880our central nervous system look that's all cool i love that stuff it's weird it's trippy it's you0.93
01:21:52.580know psychedelic philosophy but it is fucking useless and not real and it only it only appeals0.98
01:26:28.500So, like, first of all, working class people organizing themselves in a like as a class, like saying, like, you know, we work for a certain thing and we're organizing against our employer.0.97
02:41:02.060and this guy's face, this is a physiognomy thing
02:41:04.780i think we're old enough we get to just say this is the face of a guy who doesn't just lie his
02:41:10.840whole thing he goes out he leaves work early so that he can lie to strangers in the street1.00
02:41:15.460his dick is hard right now from making up a big fucking story and he thinks that he's got you0.99
02:41:20.720this is this is a man who lies for fun like it just sounds to me like a silent film like a three1.00
02:41:28.440stooges thing where you know it's sped up the run around the corner a big angry crowd they pull in
02:41:32.880that they have to get in the coffin and then sneak them out in front of the crowd and the
02:41:36.160crowd just doesn't notice and then the bottom falls out and so they have to like cling to it
02:41:40.220you know it's a real a whimsical situation but i don't think that happens anyway but maybe it did
02:41:47.520maybe i am wrong but my gut tells me that didn't happen exaggeration i heard the story from both
02:41:52.980parties from both from blanche and from stanley years later at different times and they both
02:41:57.740well they're exactly the same so quite a little different okay so he just heard it from them
02:42:02.640yeah oh did they have tattoos on their wrist to prove it anyway i'm doing election campaigning
02:42:08.680in those days as the party gained in strength the ruling class continued to drum up anti-communist
02:42:14.480fervor by any means in 1937 quebec premier maurice duplicy introduced an act to protect the province
02:42:20.160against communistic propaganda known as the padlock act named for the confiscation of meeting
02:42:24.460spaces by law enforcement the padlock act was wielded by the state against communists and
02:42:28.540non-communists alike to hasten deportations of recent immigrants and to terrorize religious
02:42:32.460and political groups this signaled one of the lowest points during the cold war in canada0.99
02:42:36.300this fucking guy again this i i think he is in prison looks that way0.98
02:42:59.340during the second world war the communist party called for a popular front against fascism0.99
02:43:03.420But at the outset of the Cold War, the world was cleaved anew, and the capitalist class renewed its persecution of the global left with vigor.
02:43:09.940As McCarthyism intensified in the United States, its Canadian accomplices escalated attacks on communists.
02:43:15.000Well, okay, I don't want to get into this because we do need to get going soon, but the leftist narrative, they randomly decided to start hating the communists after World War II.0.87
02:43:24.980i mean i don't if you talk to any communist and we covered many many years ago the matrokin
02:43:32.040archives which some people have contested debated the uh legitimacy of but it purports to be um
02:43:39.220documents showing the activities smuggled out of the soviet union um and some great stories in there
02:43:46.540reveals the spy network that was going on and one of the interesting things that i give the
02:43:52.140communist credit i think of the soviet's credit was that they correctly foresaw that once world
02:43:59.160war ii was over uh the soviet union and america were going to be at odds almost immediately
02:44:03.880they were especially if you're a marxist you understood that your existential opponent
02:44:10.100would have been capitalist even if the capitalists don't understand it right now
02:44:13.760so they were first across the finish line with establishing their international spy network
02:44:19.180which is why you had so many spies in america and comparatively few if maybe almost none in the
02:44:26.660soviet union like i don't think there was a really strong foothold of america in there but
02:44:31.060they were america was lousy with communist spies and that was the one i believe truth behind
02:44:36.500mccarthyism regardless what you think about mccarthy it's like yeah there was a lot of
02:44:41.340card carrying communists there's a lot of card carrying members of the nation that you're
02:44:46.860more or less engaged in war with right and so and what i find is communists and marcus will like
02:44:53.420simultaneously deny that there was any communist there but then also say that well of course
02:44:58.980everyone wants to be a communist of course we were popular of course we were infiltrating0.70
02:45:03.600like they need these two things to be true at the same time always they like a marxist must at once0.84