YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by vkou on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:13AM (#23710220)

> The idea of having a revolution to replace the bourgeoise with the workers was tried, people watched, they saw it led to dictatorship and so it just got harder and harder to be an open advocate for that.

Your thesis can't be correct, because:

The idea of fascist ethnostates also ended poorly, the last time around - and yet here we are, watching their ideas enjoy a renaissance.

Observing that ideas have been tried, and have failed, clearly does not kill those ideas. If it did, we wouldn't be having this conversation now.

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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by thu2111 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:44PM (#23715139)

Sorry. To be more specific it killed:

1. Marxist terminology and the notion of class war ("proles" and "bourgeoise" are now anachronistic)

2. Marxist economic theory and the goal of replacing capitalism

The dream of overthrowing capitalism lives on in squats and hard-left fringe groups, but it's dead and buried in the mainstream. China's adoption of it put the final nail in that coffin.

The more generalised Marxist theory of dividing the world into oppressors/the oppressed lives on and is seeing a resurgence. With that I agree.

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