Hasan CLUELESS About Marxist Theory

all right we're gonna watch this hassan

shit so i gotta pray for some some stuff

we're gonna move on now we're moving on

jackson made a tweet last night he

deleted it because fucking twitter left

this jackson got ratio really hard and

really bad like i went to bed and it was

like at 600 quote tweets and apparently

he was getting death threats he was

getting so much fucking hate and to my

disgust to my disgust

even people who act like they are

sympathetic to me and jackson joined in

with the fucking mob of dumbasses on

twitter yeah dg gears were literally

ever it wasn't just like the leftists

right it's dg jeers and everyone you

could fucking possibly imagine was going

after jackson for this fucking tweet

literally everyone you could fucking

imagine right everybody going after him

many of you in the chat probably are

like huh what is jackson saying here

what does he mean now i want to quote

mao so you get it through your head

no investigation no right to speak now

do you have to agree with it if you

don't understand it no you don't have to

academics

teachers social workers engineers

managers nurses and network writers are

not working class what if i told you

this was just true and what if i proved

it to you that it was true we're gonna

break down every facet of this tweet and

its implications and by the end of this

if you are coming at this against

jackson you're gonna feel like a fucking

idiot in the main this tweet is true

let's first address before we hear

hassan's reaction because we're gonna

save that i'm going to actually explain

it to you so simply the left has a

madonna complex where class is defined

by the extent of your suffering and

grievances that's the first thing we're

going to begin with why have you made

the assumption

that class is based on suffering and

grievances what are you saying that

which streamers are the working class

no at no point did jackson ever imply

that i have gone on record myself saying

the exact opposite our personal

background is no more definitive

necessarily of our class position in the

realm of politics as with marx engels

lenin's or any other fucking marxist in

history who clearly did not come from

proletarian backgrounds so no

we are not fucking saying that twitch

streamers are working class we've never

said that because being working class is

not the same thing as being good or bad

or suffering enough they've they have

translated marxism into an encyclopedia

of emotional grievances with which to

justify an economy of virtue signaling

suffering and morality the more you

suffer the more good and virtuous you

are they made it seem like he was saying

academics teachers are all bad he said

they're not working class

he didn't say they're bad he didn't say

they're bad people he didn't say they're

less virtuous he didn't say they're not

suffering he said they are not working

class

jackson deleted this tweet he deleted

this tweet because it was bad optics it

did reach some normie nurses and some

teachers who gothel got upset with it

because it was a bad storm it was a bad

storm and it was bad optics i think

jackson understands that i understand

that too and i'll explain to you why

it's bad optics it's very simple it's

this very simple distinction that's

going to literally solve all the

confusion about this ready let's focus

on teachers nurses and possibly social

workers are these people class enemies

no they're not class enemies just

because someone is not working class

doesn't explain what proximity they do

have to the working class or what the

relation to the working class is that's

not enough to explain it all you're

doing is pointing out something very

simple these people are not going to

form the core of the working class

movement in the united states the

reasons for which i'm going to literally

explain to you so simply they will not

form the core of a working-class

movement they may be a part of the

working-class movement they may have a

proximity to it they may not be class

enemies but they will not form the core

of any working-class movement in the

united states now let's be clear about

something in the political sense the

non-marxist sense you do say that nurses

maybe social workers and teachers are

working class in the collegial sense

they obviously are and the reason they

are is because like other working class

americans in the collegial sense they're

doing their daily grind they're busting

their ass every single day to put food

on the table to support their families

and they're working day to day hour hour

to do that they are working class in the

colloquial sense yes but this is why you

have to be very careful about

distinguishing the science or even just

the political strategic scientific

perspective of marxism from the

colloquial and cultural one so from the

political and cultural sense obviously

teachers and nurses are working class

right

but

if we are political strategists and we

are having a class analysis of our

society we have to critique all of the

social formations and elements and ask

the question of what relationship will

they have to a working class political

strategy what is their fundamental and

essential class nature right that

doesn't mean they're going to be class

enemies it just means you're not going

to be relying primarily on them to form

a working-class movement and that's a

very important distinction you have to

draw okay now this is another

distinction we're going to have to draw

specifically only going to be isolating

teachers and nurses and possibly social

workers here right because let me tell

you what netflix writers possibly

engineers i would say engineers can be

split 50 50 and epidemics almost

entirely are class enemies so academics

50 of engineers maybe and managers and

netflix right writers both are class

enemies i will yeah that's just they are

class enemies hundred percent of the

class they're going to be class enemies

right engineers maybe can be divided

along class lines but the rest yes

they're class enemies besides teachers

and nurses for reasons they're going to

explain when you understand class some

people are going to say class is just

based on what your relationship to the

means of production is that's true but

the means of production is very vague

the means of the production of what of

economic value of commodities because if

you're looking at it from that

perspective and you're applying that to

2021 you are not going to be able to

explain classes in terms of ownership

the idea of are you an employee or an

employer that's what defines class

that's a political distinction that's

based on how you're going to be

recognized by the law and tax

distinctions and things like that and

federal regulations that's a legal

distinction that's not actually a

fundamentally economic relation i want

you guys to understand what economics

means i know a lot of people say class

is not income it's not but income is

part of class and the reason it's part

of class is because economics is about

how material goods or access to material

goods is distributed across society so

if you're looking at such variations

employee that's making that's getting

salary 200k a year or like hassan said a

labor billionaire like lebron james

compared to you know a coal miner or

compared to a janitor that is not a

meaningful you don't have a meaningful

concept of class class is supposed to

talk about the different relationships

to the economic means of production

you're defining a relationship to the

economic means of production so broadly

that it encompasses radically different

economic strata and economic ways of

life and economic wealth your notion and

concept of class is fucking worthless if

your concept of class is just about

employees versus employers it is not

specific enough to actually explain

the very observable economic differences

in our society the economic outcomes in

our society because class is about the

relationship to the economic and not

just political means of production and

what i mean by that is it's not just

based on your title in relation to a

business it's actually based and

supposed to be the determining factor as

far as your relationship to the way in

which we produce and consume things so

when you're talking about class you have

to begin with that understanding it's

supposed to explain the economic

outcomes that we see in our society if

your notion of class has absolutely no

fucking explanatory value as far as the

economic outcomes that we see in our

society you don't have a concept of

class

there are clear economic differences

very discreet economic differences

between netflix employees and people

working in factories they have radically

different economic ways of life patterns

of consumption and so on and so on just

night and day right if you're saying

they're part of the same class your

concept of class is fucking worthless

because it is not able to explain the

different economic outcomes between

those different groups remember the

economic relation to the means of

economic production is supposed to

explain the economic outcomes you see in

our society and marx's time the

proletariat was a specific class with a

specific pattern of consumption it had a

specific cultural reality it had a

specific way of life it had a specific

geography and it it could actually be

identified economically as distinct from

the rest of society if your notion of

what the proletariat is is so fucking

all-encompassing that it's going to

start encompassing professors and

graduate students and teach it's

completely fucking worthless you may as

well have no fucking concept of class

whatsoever you may just say are you an

employer or an employee we're for the

employees fuck the employers you're not

talking about economic class you're

talking about a very arbitrary

politically instantiated and politically

recognized distinction as far as

workplace status is concerned because it

rests upon the assumption that the 19th

century form of private property has

persisted up to this present day when it

hasn't ownership so-called ownership of

the means of production is not like in

the 19th century where you had the power

to arbitrarily exercise uh the freedom

to do whatever the fuck you wanted with

your property and it's just your

property is what it is do what you want

with it as marx described of the

commodity that's not how ownership works

today ownership is derivative today and

by derivative i mean it takes more the

form of like um derivative stock

contracts like the right to buy things

the right to sell things the right to

have exclusive contracts with government

projects the right to have a monopoly

over a certain ip it's a derivative form

of ownership and not a direct form of

ownership so the idea that you can

directly transplant the 19th century

classical liberal form of ownership to

the 21st century and base your class

analysis off of that is going to lead

you to extremely stupid fucking outcomes

that are not able to explain the

variations among the various different

social formations and segments of

society along political cultural and

economic lines it has no explanatory

value if that you're going to commit to

such a dogmatic analysis now here's an

important distinction you have to draw

when it comes to teachers nurses and

many social workers in a in a even in a

marxist sense i would argue even in a

marxist sense you could call them

working class but five nurses and as

teachers they are not working class

the basic meaning of that is that in

terms of their labor it is not an

abstract or general form of labor it's a

form of labor bounded up with definite

institutions so when nurses are going to

act on behalf of their interests as

nurses and not just as human beings

trying to make a living and trying to

get by they're not going to be do so as

members of the working class they're

going to be doing so as people who want

to defend their current institutional

and professional position it doesn't

matter how poor they are or how hard

they work in a fundamental materialist

sense they are not going to represent

general labor they are going to

represent these specific and private

interests of the institution that they

work for when push comes to shove if

they act as a class which is incredibly

ironic about asanas one of the ways

nurses and teachers can assert

themselves as working class rather than

as teachers or as nurses it's things

like general strikes where they risk

destroying the institutions that they

work for in order to assert their

fundamental human dignity as deserving a

basic standard of living in a basic

level of living conditions and so on and

so on when they do things like general

strikes that you could say they're

acting as a working class right and it's

interesting hassan is pointing us out

because hassan we're going to get into

this actually attacked the panel um that

was hosted by many influencers to call

for a general strike and strategize

about how they can get a general strike

going in this country a general strike

is a way for people to withdraw from

their specific institutional context and

act as one working class people

nationwide general strike people on

twitter and hassan himself hassan

doesn't like the idea of a national

general strike and the reason why is

because a national general strike is a

great leveling process it means that if

you're a netflix employee you don't have

as much of an incentive to engage in a

nationwide general strike as a janitor

right a janitor is like yeah or a

mcdonald's worker a mcdonald's worker is

like yo fuck my job you know what i mean

like my top fucking sucks i don't want a

general strike but a netflix employee is

like hmm i don't really want to risk it

because i'm kind of in a comfy position

so a nationwide general strike a general

strike is a way for a general working

class to assert its existence right but

hassan doesn't like that hassan prefers

for graduate students to organize within

their cozy confines of the great because

that way their interests will not be

weighed against the interests of the

country's actual general working class

you understand the game that they're

playing they went after jimmy dore and

the rest of them's called for a general

national nationwide general strike

because they fear this tremendous

leveling process which is going to turn

the professional managerials if they

commit to their larpy working class

pretentions it's going to make them

equals of the actual working class of

this country but the professional

managerials do not have the same

incentive to risk their current social

position that the country's general

working class does and the truth is even

nurses and teachers don't have that

incentive themselves features are an

extremely institutionalized social

formation they're very much dependent

and very much instantiated in their

specific institution of government

public education right another important

thing about pointing out how as nurses

and as teachers these are not members of

the working class again as human beings

you can maybe say the members of the

working class as citizens of this

country you can maybe say they're

members of the working class but have

nurses and as teachers they're not and

the reason you can say that the reason

it's important to point that out is

because the left has fetishized nurses

and teachers like the vanguard of the

working class because their interests

have for a long time been aligned with

those of the democrats the social

engineers and the liberals right the

social engineering democrats who have

this agenda of engaging in this cultural

social engineering project are very

easily able to win over teachers and

nurses because those people are already

overly socialized and institutionalized

now you when you have a marxist

perspective you don't have a black and

white perspective you say oh nurses and

teachers are bad oh they're

reactionaries oh they're class enemies

they're enemies of the people oh they're

um they don't work hard oh they're

parasites that's not true they are hard

working people who are trying to get by

day in and day out to support their

families right you have to have a

scientific view of this and not an

emotional one you just have to

understand that as teachers and as

nurses they are not going to form the

nucleus of a working class movement in

this country the way you're going to be

able to define and measure this very

simple understanding of who is and isn't

working class is marx's concept of

simple labor this is the first chapter

of capital the value of a commodity

represents human labor in the abstract

the expenditure of human labor in

general and just as in society a general

or a banker plays a great part but mere

man on the other hand a very shabby part

shown here with mere human labor it is

the expenditure of simple labor power

and this is the important part we're

going to highlight the labor power which

on an average apart from any special

development exists in the organism of

every ordinary individual simple average

labor it is true varies in character in

different countries this is very

important and at different times but in

a particular society it is given skilled

labor counts only as simple labor

intensified what did marxis say here

right let me give you an example of what

he's talking about as far as simple

labor is concerned so he already told us

that it varies in character in different

countries in different times but it

basically and more or less represents it

basically and more or less represents

the type of labor that an average person

an ordinary person in a given society

with an average number of skill is going

to be performing so how do you think

about that well what's the kind of labor

that any old dumbass fresh out of high

school for example in the post-war

period is going to be engaging in what

are they going to do they're going to go

work at a factory for ford or for gm and

they're going to be able to have a

family they're going to have this

average middle-class baseline standard

of living right it's going to be the

factory job now in the post-war period

in the united states you have to have

this understanding of the history of the

working class in this country there was

a social contract that was arrived at

between the government and

the the american citizens more or less

right or at least the baby boomers after

world war ii you are mostly factory

workers and you're mostly doing these

heavy industry coal miner jobs right a

lot of people on twitter are be like oh

you're fetishizing that class just

because they're manly and masculine and

because of their aesthetics no that's

not why there's a very specific

scientific reason why we are privileging

that class as the working class and the

reason is because in the post-war period

the united states as a state was built

on the basis of an economic social

contract according to which an average

normal human being in the united states

um is going to be guaranteed a basic job

a basic standard of living and that the

government is going to organize itself

around in

in a way in a perverted and twisted and

ironic sense the us kind of became a

workers republic but hear me out here

right our state and our government at

least officially formed around

fulfilling the interests of this general

labor of the general working class right

now we all know the story of what

happened we all know the story of what

happened during the 1970s these jobs

started to ship overseas so the shadow

of this once clear form of general labor

of the general working class began to

haunt the country right people like

trump would come and promise the jobs

are going to come back and that is why

trump formed the nucleus of you can say

it's a reactionary but it is an

authentically working class movement

trump's movement was you could say it

was a reactionary form of a

working-class movement but it was a

fundamentally working-class movement

because it represented the general

demand by the population on the basis of

the general form of labor that can be

applied to everyone some may reproach me

as hey has aren't those factory workers

and coal miners and the rest of them

also institutionalized in the sense that

they're very much tied down to their

companies and they're willing to serve

the interests of their companies i mean

haas what better example of this is

there than oil workers oil workers

defend the interests of the fossil fuel

companies because it's how they make a

living right the institution of the

fossil fuel companies and my approach

will be yes but the difference is is

that they only do so insofar as those

jobs represent a general form of labor

for the american citizen for the country

it represents the general form of labor

they have come to expect after world war

ii and around which the political

relationship between the state and the

people has been based and it's the

breaking of this social contract that

actually resulted in trump's movement

and trumps the trump phenomena in

general because this social contract was

broken that's why you had the trump

phenomena right we have to be clear the

working class is not only going to be

defined by where it is working and the

nature of its profession that's a very

important and big factor but the working

class is also going to be defined in the

political sense like if we're going to

say what expression of a political

demand is a working class demand of this

general expression of the general

interests of general simple labor simple

and general labor in the abstract what

forces represent its interests now when

nurses act as nurses they are not

representing the interests of general

labor they are representing the

interests of people who are educated in

a way that the majority or even a

significant amount of the country is not

going to be and the same is true for

teachers when teachers act on the basis

of their interests as a teacher they are

only doing so in so far as it represents

the

whatever barrier entry is to being a

teacher a teacher is not a job that is

generally

replicable for the general broad strata

of the population whereas when the steel

workers and the construction workers and

these type of people are representing

their interests in general like cohering

them in the way that it was in the trump

movement they are at least making the

pretense to a type of job that more or

less anyone can have or at least that's

how they think of the job right well

this is the job that an average joe can

have it's the job of the average joe of

this country right you have spies in the

chat i don't give a fuck obviously i

have haters in the chat are tech workers

in the bro no they are pmc they're

professional managerials it's very

simple your class interest is going to

be expressed at the level of the

interest of labor in general labor in

general not

labor in your small little fucking

graduate student workplace but labor in

general what is your relationship to

labor in general that's what's going to

define it you can also say that well

haas the type of jobs that the heavy

industry people have even something that

the majority of the country can just

have it does represent a specific

segment that may be true but it's a form

of representing general labor now i

agree those types of jobs cannot

represent the majority of jobs people

have in this country why do you think so

many people have to work in this in the

service sector is it is it because

they're lazy and you know they're not

tough enough to work in steel no it's

just those those steel jobs are because

the jobs have shipped overseas not

really attainable for most people

anymore but they do represent the type

of general labor that was uh whose

standards of living was earned by the

working class movement of this country

after the postwar period you have to

keep this word in mind general labor

that's how you understand the interests

of the working class now despite those

jobs no longer being attainable the

heavy industry jobs that form the

nucleus of trump's movement represents

the general interests of general labor

and is therefore the most authentic

working class in this country because

and i'll explain it to you here let's

say you work at a shitty job in

mcdonald's grinding day in and day out

if you try to unionize your job at

mcdonald's all you're basically saying

is this job at mcdonald's is befitting

for a dignified human being no it's

fucking not serving sector jobs are

bullshit jobs that are meant to um waste

the time of so-called surplus

populations which is of course a

malthusian anti-human uh phenom uh like

category that our elites believe in but

that's what they're meant to absorb is

people that are considered not needed

for capitalism right when you act on the

interest of general labor you have to

ask the question of what types of jobs

should ordinary americans have what

types of jobs should we have what types

of jobs should we expect what types of

jobs represent our interests and the

interests of our labor in general and

those jobs are going to be the heavy

industry jobs because those are jobs

that are not only socially necessary in

the like sense of socially necessary

abstracted for material nature but they

are literally the jobs materially

necessary for our reproduction as human

beings you don't need service sector

jobs that's the truth you only need

service sector jobs because we are

having our time wasted by the eight hour

day so we don't have enough time to

attend and serve ourselves and we don't

even have enough money to serve

ourselves but imagine for instance if

the communist party adopted as its

platform shortening the workday through

four hours or two hours even and having

a general vocational trade school

program abolishing the service sector so

that we could all have heavy industry

jobs that we work you know four hours a

day supposedly and we have free time

plus more wealth to do it what we want

with it right that would be a

working-class demand now that's not

something professional managerials are

going to get behind because professional

managerials reproduce their existence on

the basis of managing the way in which

human beings currently have to live

their lives and

like even netflix creative artists are

producing shit to appeal to the ways of

life we have right now that doesn't that

involves this suffocating lack of

economic emancipation and freedom right

how do you solve the problem of

automation you solve it by shortening

the hours of

these short you solve it by shortening

the work day and the work week that's

how you solve automation

shorten the work day and shorten the

work week

simple as that

now many have tried to say there's some

dumbass on twitter who quit the discord

and decided he didn't want to debate

because he's too much of a fucking

coward

um who i debated before and they were so

nice and cordial and understanding

they're like oh it's more like a

discussion and they wouldn't ran their

mouth on twitter saying that uh they

beat me in the debate so i'm gonna i

when i get the chance i'm gonna bring

them back on apparently they're running

away so whenever they decide to uh grow

a pair and come on i'm actually going to

fucking wreck them but they're trying to

say revenue is not what is fundamental

to class ownership is

here's the thing i need you guys to

understand something about marx's theory

of value and his corresponding

understanding of the various classes of

our society for marx marx is very

specifically positive an explanation for

how value in our society is being

produced how is it that you can start

out with a given amount of money and end

with profit how do you get from m

through the investment into a commodity

to m

uh

m

what is the m uh what's the name for it

more money whatever that symbol they put

at the end of them right n prime yeah m

prime how do you get from m to a

commodity to m prime marks marx's basic

explanation for this right was that it

was coming from the abstract human labor

of society in general abstract human

labor is what is responsible for the

production of value and the

corresponding contradictions in the

expression of value in our society in

the form of price like for instance in

the form of the falling rate of profit

can be explained by the relationship

between the value form and abstract

general human labor the whole decisive

point in markson's formula here is that

is not creating some kind of axiom that

anyone who sells their labor is a worker

and that any form of compensation for

any type of service is a form of labor

because you're paying them more

fundamentally the reason for that is

because according to marx that was what

explained or what was responsible

for profit that was that's what

explained not only profit but the

falling rate of profit and general

capitalist crisis this basic

contradiction between the form of value

and the vital material source of value

itself so he wasn't creating a dogma

first and then

drawing from a first premise he was

asserting something and then developing

and proving why it was in the form of

proving the way in which labor is

responsible for the production of value

and surplus value specifically labor was

responsible for surplus value this is

something he took it upon the burden of

himself to prove in capital right but

the way in which he does this does not a

forum afford this dogmatic idea that

just because you're not the employer

means that you're performing some kind

of abstract productive labor that is

responsible for the surplus value being

produced in our society in the aggregate

that is what the burden upon you is to

prove in 2021 because this is where it

gets interesting right these people in

the dsa would have us believe with a

straight face they would try to tell us

in us with a straight face

that the reason why you can explain this

current super profits in our society

despite no real growth in the actual

economy is because netflix workers are

just that productive these netflix

writers who are writing cuties the

reason why netflix is growing because

because they make this stupid like well

if it wasn't for them you wouldn't have

netflix but that's not why marx was

saying labor is responsible for surplus

value if you didn't have machines you

couldn't do it if you're not this you

couldn't do it there's no very specific

reason why marx explains surplus value

in terms of labor and that reason is

that for mark's value itself was just

the estranged expression of this more

fundamental material force that he

called abstract human labor which was

the vital source for the way in which

society was being material materially

transformed it was the material cause of

society's transformation or the

transformation of nature i should say

it's not just that it was defined by how

important it is for the process of

production if words if everything is

just a matter of the technical

necessities or the material necessities

of production among which include

various natural geographical and so on

and so on conditions which marx also

talks about then we would not be

speaking about any human element of

exchange and sociality in general it

labels the decisive element in so far as

we are speaking about a fundamentally

social

mode of production right it is how human

beings divide the general labor between

themselves in the production of a

general social product in the form of

profit in the aggregate

and many you what is profit in the

aggregate well it's already measured now

this is what marx was anticipating for

why he said socialism was inevitable in

the form of like um the unity of

political and economic interests and

states needing to produce profits like

general profit in the form of gdp and so

on and so on or you could maybe if you

want to get more interesting talk about

trade deficits or trade surpluses which

is a different story right but the

important thing you have to mention here

is that marx didn't just didn't assert

some axiomatic definition the reason why

labor general labor had the privileged

conceptual status that it did for

marxism was because marx believed it

could explain the economic outcomes in

the form of surplus value and the

falling greater profit within our

society now those who want to make the

argument that the super profits are

entirely responsible for something

changing in the nature of labor that

well netflix workers are just such

special no flake snowflakes and that's

why they

really produce the billions that netflix

rakes in do you guys seriously believe

that nonsense do you seriously believe

that all of these mega profits that

we're witnessing on wall street and all

that stuff is directly because of the

labor of the employees nobody fucking

buys that because it's complete fucking

bullshit more scandalously

and this isn't something janet's

verofocus has pointed out and this is

what will break the twitter left and the

so-called marxists of twitter here it is

ready you ready for the scandalous

revelation i don't know how to break

this to you but since 2008 and i would

argue before 2008 actually actually

go out of my way to argue after 2008 or

before 2008 probably beginning with the

1970s and the abandonment of the gold

standards and the collapse of the

bretton woods system i don't know how to

break this to you profits are not even

any longer the source of economic growth

in our society not only can you not say

that the type of performance exacted by

employees is responsible for the super

profits that we're witnessing profits

themselves

are no longer the primary driving force

of economic growth profits themselves

are no longer the primary linchpin of

our economy in general if profit is not

even the fundamental mode of economic

accumulation anymore how do these people

expect their dogmatic rendering of

marx's theory of value and his

understanding of labor how do they find

that sustainable what implications does

this have for the various social

formations and classes within our

society that is what we need to start

asking and what we need to start

evaluating if profit is no longer even

what's driving the accumulation of

economic goods and economic growth how

the fuck can you sustain a dogmatic

crystallized class analysis ripped out

of the 19th century and abstractionally

textually applied to today as just

referring to anyone who's an employee

first you have to prove that general

labor is what is responsible for the

production of surplus value then you

have to explain why surplus value

appears to no longer even be being

produced anymore it is no longer the

driving force of economic growth since

2008. you have a lot of explaining to do

if you're going to try and sustain this

idea that anyone who's an employee

is a proletarian you have a whole lot of

fucking explaining to do a whole lot so

what is responsible for the economic

growth that we're witnessing since 2008

actually it's something called

quantitative easing quantitative easing

banks and i'm just going to focus

specifically on europe and america right

now the federal reserve and

the

uh

the euro group

sorry i forget their name the european

central banks and the federal reserve

have simply printed money and injected

it into the economy the so-called

profits that you're witnessing on the

stock market are not authentic

capitalist profits in any meaningful

sense they are not profits based on a

competitive market and based on the sale

of commodities and therefore

redistributing the amount of total

wealth in society and concentrating it

in the form into the capitalist

enterprises in the form of profits and

income it's based on politically

produced credit monetary economic credit

that is being pumped into the economy

and then redistributed among the

financial elites in the form of what's

going on in the stock market they are

just redistributing the political credit

being injected into the economy it's

almost as if we live in a type of

socialism it's almost like we live in a

type of socialism and at a central level

the government is giving out these green

or i don't know what they look like in

europe these green paper slips that say

hey this will give you access to some of

the goods or a given quantity of the

goods that are socially produced in our

society right they're printing out this

money and giving it injecting it into

the economy and then in the stock market

is merely being redistributed among our

ruling class in specific types of ways

not saying it's entirely artificial at

the stock market is all fake

coordination but you saw with the

gamestop controversy how much that shit

is rigged when people decide because on

reddit or whatever people realize like

hold on they're actually coordinating

how the stock market works and they're

planning it in order to reap this excess

of money that's being injected into the

economy by the government what if we use

uh use the power of the internet to

create like an um a decentralized uh

channel of information where we will

signal collectively on the basis of a

common social cause and also on the

basis of trying to get rich that we want

to pump the value of a given stock it

worked and it worked so fucking well

that the platforms that are accessible

to the general public to the stock

market

shut down

shut down because of how much the game

stops stuck stuff created a panic for

the hedge fund investment um enterprises

and these wall street insiders robin

hood or whatever right for this idea

that you have to think about this right

how is this capitalism in any

traditional sense please explain to me

how this is the traditional form of

capitalism that can be explained with a

prior form of the law of value something

is not something is quite alright to say

the least something is quite alright to

say the least in terms of how our

economy fucking works

and how the economy fucking works was

the whole point of marx's capital you

think marx would want you to have this

dogmatic view where he's gonna well in

marxist time you had something called

general labor and the various forms of

skilled labor

were just

multiplications and compounding

forms of this general labor this simple

labor which is the least quantum of

simple labor and marx himself put it

right here in capital skilled labor

accounts only as skilled simple labor

intensified or rather

multiplied simple labor a given quantity

of skilled being considered equal to a

greater company quantity of simple labor

that's why marx can say things like yes

you know

even a a bank teller or even some kind

of you know writer maybe is considered a

worker in capitalism because everyone's

labor is reduced to this general

standard but we no longer have a general

standard of labor or at least as far as

the professional managerial class is

concerned its form of labor cannot be

measured in any general standard it is

fundamentally bounded up with the

technical logistical and social or sorry

organizational necessities of these

institutions to coordinate human bodies

um to fulfill their ends labor in that

sense has been reduced to a purely

technical role

in the administrative and bureaucratic

uh corporate institutional machine as

far as the professional managerials are

concerned

it's not that they are being they're

selling their labor right

it's that their labor is factoring in

their so-called labor is so

fundamentally entangled with how these

institutions operate that it can't even

be abstracted from them the national

struggle has already lost its connection

to the general labor well i would argue

the opposite i would argue that general

labor is only a given expression at the

national level on the national political

level at least that's why a national

general strike would be the most

authentic expression of working-class

power in this country which is why

people like hassan reacted so negatively

to the calls for a general national

strike hassan doesn't want to see a

general national strike he wants to

preserve all of these hierarchies of the

different social formations in our

society so that the netflix fighters can

organize and they all organize

separately and they're not held to a

common popular standard hassan is

effectively defending a neo-feudal

hierarchical

um

social environment where everyone knows

their place oh you're the plumber

cleaning toilets and mcdonald's that is

where you belong oh you should just

unionize so your life can get a little

better how about no one should have to

work at fucking mcdonald's cleaning

toilets huh how about you shouldn't have

to be forced to have these shitty

fucking jobs in the sun huh you want to

fucking unionize city jobs you want to

get rid of city fucking jobs no one

wants to have a shitty fucking job with

son doesn't matter if you want to

unionize it or not oh here's it here's

how it's this is what a song is

basically telling you here's how it's

gonna work i'm the twitch streamer or

i'm the netflix employee or i'm the

actor in hollywood and i'm gonna

unionize and then i'm gonna go to

starbucks tata

can you please get me a frappuccino

worker i'm gonna go to mcdonald's can

you please oh i don't have to feel you

listen you're unionized you know your

place and i know my place and it's all a

harmonious futile

harmonious great chain of being

and

real jobs back to americans let's cut

the working day let's get some universal

fucking income and let's allow us to

live dignified human lives and live on

its economic playing field so that all

the hidden talent within you can

actually be expressed let's give you a

baseline basic income let's get our

basic jobs back and then if you know how

to be a good successful businessman

you'll do better than hassan you see

that person cleaning toilets and

mcdonald's if they were put on a level

economic playing field with a fucking

silly boy like hassan

that person would become a very

successful businessman and he'd get a

bunch of big booty bitches and he'd be

on a yacht and he'd have a fucking lambo

and shit and then someone would be

fucking shining his shoes that put on

some fears that's what hassan fears that

assange scared of the middle class

struggle that these fucking bsa

parasites are afraid of that's what

these fucking dsa parasites don't

fucking want to happen and my only

fucking question for the so-called

communist party is what the fuck makes

you different from the usa we already

have a fucking dsa we don't need another

one we need a fucking working-class

party for working-class americans

we need a future yeah communists aren't

against being able to hustle and get

rich we just want people to have the

opportunity and we want a dignified way

of life so you don't have to choose

between either being super rich or

cleaning toilets yeah maybe some people

will get rich and they'll live a lavish

lifestyle they have big booty bitches on

their yacht but you'll still have a

dignified way of supporting yourself and

your family you don't still live in a

dignified way

and just like how china does we're not

gonna let the rich or people who make a

good life for themselves maybe we

shouldn't even call them the rich no

more it would just be called them the

flourishing class under communism

right the people who are especially you

know they hustled they made they made a

good life for themselves you don't got

to be jealous they're not going to rig

the system in their favor because the

communist party is going to be the

highest power in the land they're not

going to be able to fucking uh rig the

system against you the government the

communist party is going to serve the

people only you understand we're not

against people trying to make a living

for themselves that's why infrared fucks

with the game stop we're about to gain

stop communism yeah we fuck with the

people who work in these shitty fucking

service sector jobs these dead end

fucking corporate jobs and they're

trading crypto and they're on the

fucking

stock market on their phones doing wall

street and shit because they're trying

to gain the system and get ahead and

those people are hungry those people are

hustlers those people are hungry a lot

of talent among those fucking people and

they know how to grind they know how to

fucking work hard and hassan wants those

people to be eating shit fucking working

dead-end jobs not even having a fucking

chance while hassan fucking laughs his

way to the fucking bank as this new

feudal lord this new aristocratic lord

just like that fucking picture with

nancy pelosi let me tell you the fucking

future hassan's trying to fucking give

us huh let me show you our feudal future

with hassan trying to make himself the

prince he's going to be your prince

prince hassan prince hassan and our new

our neo-feudal fucking future let me

show you what the fuck is this huh

nancy this is the socialism vsa is

fighting for everyone knows their place

nancy

bride and husband

everyone oh she knows her place we know

her place we all know our place in our

society we are guys we all know our

place and these are our lords and

worshipers oh socialist gods you are our

socialist gods we are all gonna be left

behind eating shit and and we're gonna

be

we're gonna be unionizing at our

mcdonald's job and we will bow before

you as you walk past meghan markle's

coming to town guys everyone say hi to

meghan markle oh

yes

1619 project america was a mistake the

republic was an aesthetic only or not

born equal some of us do deserve to

clean toilets instead of having

dignified ways of life yes meghan markle

princess

yes i'm gonna throw away my american

flag return to the fold of the british

empire of the sins of the past i'm so

guilty i'm so guilty for the past that's

why we need meghan markle and prince

harry to be

our leaders

oh nancy pelosi oh my god

oh yes yes we will not have 1776 again

oh oh 1776. what do you mean we're going

to rise up and and take back our country

what do you mean 1776 will come commence

again and and and and the people will

rule this country again we're going to

give this country back to the people and

that we're going to have dignified ways

of life and that

you know we're going to we're going to

fight the aristocrats we're going to put

all these nobles and aristocrats and

feudal lords on a on a level playing

field no i cannot be on level please i

would never

never never

please forgive me for the thought

speaker pelosi please please speaker

pelosi speaker pelosi please

speaker pelosi listen

i would never think that

this woman isn't equal to me

i am but a cock who cleans toilets and

watches hassan and i have i'm a member

of my dsa i'm a member of the dsa

i'm a member of the gsa aka the catholic

church uploading the feudal order of

2021 yes just like the catholic church

in the middle ages we have the dsa today

that's upholding the great chain of

being and we all know our place but

we're unionizing so it's okay

oh yes speaker pelosi

we are not equals i could not time but a

peasant i was made to clean toilets i

was made to clean toilets and eat shit

that's what i was made for

well i could i could never dream of a

different way of life yes i can never

know that's not what i'm talking about

let's say

1776 we'll commence again the american

people are gonna rise up and we're gonna

give this republic back to the people

all men are created equal hassan's not

better than you none of these fucking

hollywood celebrities are better than

you all these fucking wall street people

are fucking better than you we're all

fucking men we're all fucking

red-blooded men and women where the

fuckers want to call you sir we're all

fucking human beings here these people

aren't something better than us this you

don't have something more talent than

you you're not something smarter than

you they don't fucking work harder than

you

and you call us fascists you call us

fascists and you're maintaining a

fascist imperialist

form of feudal slavery for the debt

slavery for the fucking population while

you're in the fucking dsa right shut the

fuck up bitch

oh

oh speaker pelosi and you're gonna

listen to hassan right you're gonna

listen to this fucking hassan fraud

right

you're going to listen to hassan the

fraud how dare he's got the soviet flag

in his background 26 to 20 36 let's go

thank you black lennon he's got the flag

of the workers and peasants who rolls up

and overthrew the satanic corrupt

decadent russian aristocracy and fucking

monopoly landowner than fucking russia

who gave their fucking country back to

its people and he's carrying their

fucking flag

let's watch hassan's reaction let's

watch hassan's reaction

got the bernie cuck

cardboard cut out in his fucking back

because he's preparing us for a fucking

fascist blooper with a fucking enemy

scene and you don't want to take

first of all like

the academics side is like

classic okay that's like classic fucking

fascist posturing

fascist posturing to call out the

academic parasites

intellectuals the shit of the nation he

said they think they're the golden key

of the nation in the shoot of the nation

and he calls it fascist he calls it

[Laughter]

[Music]

we can learn anything we could know

anything but we have to preserve the

academics unless you're a fascist oh

apparently we're all they're trying to

dance about fucking history anybody

who's against essential parasites the

fucking monopolies the red tear

intellectual property fucking monopolies

trying to gain keep knowledge to the

bathroom for the people where fashions

depend everyone's a fascist everyone's a

fascist you're a fascist you're fascist

you're fascist unless you bow before

unless you let me show you let me show

you let me show you let's go back i

gotta remind you i gotta show you what

we're up against what we're dealing with

listen listen listen unless

you

bow before this royal couple you're a

fascist classic fascist

let me be an academic

oh yes

i am an academic

i'm an academic my credentials are

wondrous credentials

and i

bow before me you piss aunt peasant

bow before your epidemic

masters

and if you shit on us academics yeah

it's a big club and you're not in it

and if you

dare go against the interests of us

academics

you're a fascist

yeah fascist

we're gonna call you a

nazi and a fascist because fascism just

means anything that makes my tummy

queasy

fascism means anything that makes my

tummy

queasy and uncomfy that's fascism

fascism is anything that makes my tummy

uncomfy

i'm uncomfy

that's fascism

hassan's calling anybody who challenges

why why let me ask you a question i

always pointed this out why is it that

the protected class is the ruling class

oh remember i made a tweet about soy

boys and everyone got mad why is but

bill gates and jeff bezos are soy boys

why are they the protected class they're

literally the people who rule our

country the billionaires why are

academics a protected class how are

academics an oppressed vulnerable well

you can't you can't challenge the ruling

class or they're going to call you a

fascist you can't challenge these people

or they're gonna smear you as the bad

guy well you're just fighting for the

oppressed against the oppressor you're

fighting for the have nots against the

people who have power and they're

calling you the bad guy and you the

fascist what a topsy-turvy fucked up

world these dumbasses don't know what

jimmy's anything

so many of the fucking things that i

heard from them like the criticisms last

night

oh this is one of the speakers academics

teachers oh he's still talking about the

general strike because remember hassan

does not want a general nationwide

strike because he wants to preserve the

class position of the professional

managerials which is threatened by a

general

strike which is going to level everybody

on a playing field

social workers engineers managers nurses

and netflix writers are not working

class

bro when you say t first of all like

the academics side is like classic okay

that's like classic fucking fascist

posturing

classic

fascist posturing according to hassan

classic fascist posturing according to a

song that's fascism according to a song

that's fascism but when you put teachers

on there it's like are you stupid

it's literally no it's not fucking

stupid it means stop thinking that

teachers and nurses are going to be the

nucleus of a fucking working class

movement when in essence they are not

working classes now are they working

people yes but as teachers and as nurses

they are not working class and the

interests as teachers and as nurses can

contradict the interest of a the general

working class can and have now do they

necessarily have to no it's one of those

things where you have to keep in mind

the various social dynamics and social

forces at play in this country in

relation to the general political

strategy again lefties worship teachers

because teachers vote democrat lefties

worship nurses because nurses vote

democrat but you also have things where

nurses are refusing vaccine mandates and

all of a sudden nurses suck then right

so it's all based on which classes are

more going to be able to be brainwashed

and to be buying into their fucking

ideology and nothing more it's not i i

saw this tweet by this one dumbfuck this

literal dumb fuck on twitter i forget

what her name is she goes you're just

saying this because she's like a big

account she's like because these are

female professions and you're

misogynistic that's not why you're just

saying that because these people vote

democrat social workers are not working

class no they're institutionalized and

as social workers their interests are

going to align be aligned with the

professional managerials and with the

ruling class and the status quo now as

human beings they can turn against their

social worker interests and oftentimes

that does that way now let's be honest

we're all human beings our need to

support our families and put bread on

the table and live dignified lives is

going to outweigh the interests that are

bounded up with our specific class that

can outweigh it and usually does

outweigh it actually that's why teachers

go on strike it's why nurses go on

strike why social workers can go on

strike you're really only going to be

able to measure that in a general

nationwide strike literally at the heart

of the working class

okay

how what the

it's wild dude it's so sad it's so

fucking incredibly sad

that like there are brilliant fucking

leftist voices out there

like rooney's son who's the brilliant

leftist voices bad bunny who's the

brilliant voices that aren't being heard

who hassan

who

who are the brilliant fucking voices

whose voices aren't being heard who are

these brilliant people you're talking

about i was talking about matt chrisman

the slob matt chrisman the slob jabba

the mat oh or maybe he's talking about

anthony fantano a guy who's so despised

and resented and shit upon in the

hip-hop community that he's become such

a joke that on literally only people

like hassan vouch for him or maybe he's

talking about anna casparian or he's

talking about g3 g3 g3 g3 or truanon or

aoc is it aoc's voice he's talking about

remember the people coming after me and

jackson

are

and supported funding for israel's

fucking iron dome system

and yet like these fucking weirdos are

are i mean they're not really like

prominent at all they're not really like

prominent at all that's why like

it's only a matter of time before we

surpass even you give it like two or

three years and we're gonna probably

surpass you

so it doesn't even i don't know yeah pol

pot

yeah this is literally paul pot dude you

wear glasses you're not working class

i'm gonna kill you

no it's paul pot

it's paul pot i can't even say what's

actually on my mind this is probably not

allowed so i'm just gonna leave it at

that but i'm not gonna say nothing

further lips are sealed zipped zipped

lips all i can say

is that the history of communism is

important to study

that's what jason popot hinkle uh

thought

his thinking over here i don't know who

the fuck this guy is either

the cap

just like you didn't know who infrared

was right just like how hassan didn't

know who infrared was and yet literally

you could see the fear on his face

whenever i'm so much as mentioned

you guys know marx actually tried to

prove how labor produces surplus value

he didn't just make it a moral argument

like our oh without me you wouldn't be

able to make a profit that's not the

argument marx actually systemically

proved it in capital and you have to

sustain his demonstration of proof today

and what i'm saying is you can't do that

you can't you can't say certain nurses

produce surplus value demonstrate how

they produce surplus value how how do

you measure

that okay you sat through one of these

things

and all they did was talk about crypto

talk about how much of a fucking class

enemy i am talk about rachel maddow

instead of literally talking about like

labor organizing and having labor

organizers and union leaders

on their fucking broadcast where they're

supposed to be talking like the netflix

walk-up that's what he's thinking of

when he says that but he's thinking of

the netflix walkout people

talking about like launching something

that could literally put you in jail

okay people in the past who have tried

to execute general strike have gone to

jail okay the bourgeois capital do not

do not ever think about a general strike

no i'm not i'm totally not cia don't

even try to conceive of a general strike

hold on god go back to netflix go back

to the graduate student unions do not

think about a general strike do not even

consider a dollar strike general strike

very scary very very much no no no stay

away from a general strike

list american government will

not allow you to organize something like

that they will literally kill you they

will throw you in fucking jail they will

do everything you heard that i'm gonna

terrorize you into not even considering

entertaining the idea of a general

strike oh my don't then no general

strike guys just watch me watch me watch

hassan and i'm gonna go hang out with

miss kiff and uh

ludwig watch me don't don't even think

about a general strike

because the people who can you imagine

our academics not working lives no of

course they are dude shut the fuck up

of course they are

how dare you fascist

how dare you imply that academics aren't

working class

i am myself a working class i'm a

streamer

look

here's the thing okay a lot of these

people

are super american okay that's just what

it is

they they adopt the aesthetics of like

fucking you know like pan-african

nationalism or they might adopt the

aesthetics of like maoist uh you know

third worldless rhetoric they might

adopt who are you fucking talking about

hassan those were the people attacking

us every day you dumb fuck you don't

know what the fuck you're talking about

dead as an aesthetic but ultimately they

are so fucking shackled and so burdened

by

a hyper western understanding that is

inherently reactionary

uh

what the fuck are you talking about go

ahead and explain hassan explain why

your perspective is eastern and ours is

western explain what's eastern about

your perspective

that only fans is the proletariat go

ahead

and and completely continues along that

same demystification of the

mystification of class and class

analysis and material like the moment

that you say

academics are not working class like no

you're like you're a fox news

commentator okay what why not from from

the perspective of marx's theory of

value they're not working class they're

not proletarians they don't produce any

fucking value dumbass

they those people were considered petty

bouzou by communist parties forever

communist parties thought they were

petty bourgeois they didn't call them

working class what the fuck are you

talking about assange

academics are

literally one of the fucking areas in

which there is so much exploitation

occurring oh no they're exploiting

they're exploiting the citations

they're exploiting the site data

exploited

the

academics nurses aren't working class

engineers aren't working shut the fuck

up you have no understanding of class

and

analysis

yeah hassan that's why you'll never put

it on the line and see if your class

analysis can hold when someone who

actually knows anything about marxism

fucking challenges you you cannot

fucking sustain your fucking fake

understanding of class you can't

why why wait where have we gotten to

this point where the literal social

elites are the oppressed class that are

victims of the right wing and fascists

like why do those people represent the

left so you're telling me that the right

wing represents the actual working class

who work with their hands and you

represent the fucking pink the

pink-handed soft-handed fucking liberal

aristocrats who live in the fucking

cities

looking down on everyone else it's

literally an upside down world so the

privileged are the oppressed and the

oppressed are the privileged

right

really

the fuck out of me especially when they

are literally doing exactly what i'm

doing just

significantly infinitely less successful

and also way more delusional

all right let's actually measure the

success python started out with tyt

backing with jank jank he already had

hollywood connections was already on tyt

years and years of experience being in

fucking media year later one year later

he's about what 1k average views take

has passed started on mar started march

on twitch zero backing zero connections

zero fucking anything

600 average views by november i'm

nowhere i am not successful i have 13

000 followers and 600 average views and

nearly 2 000 subs if this isn't success

i don't fucking know what success looks

like even if i only had 200 views right

now i would still be an incredibly

successful streamer and you know what

you know what keeps this guy up at night

and this is literally the truth

i am literally a better streamer than

hassan and i don't even need i don't

even fucking need to collaborate with

excuse me

so that's the other part of it it's not

like these are fucking union welders

that are like yo fuck this guy fuck this

piece of shit this hassan guy and that's

that's how you know last night the

entire fucking night it was like these

motherfuckers were like

i bet he's doing this to fucking you

know why doesn't he donate his own money

first of all it's a fucking t-shirt that

i could just pocket next time i'll just

pocket it okay next time i won't raise

money for fucking strike funds okay you

got it secondly oh he's just doing it

for clout lastly

um

on top of that oh

oh it's just for clout right just the

fuck up a son this is a tax deductible

donation no it's not you would know that

if you've ever donated to a fucking

mutual aid

fund or if you've ever donated to a

fucking strike fund it's

have you ever

donated to the netflix walkout fund

literally

not fucking tax deductible it's not a

501c3 it's a gofundme you fucking

jackass you would know that if you've

ever fucking donated but you've never

donated because you think twitter posts

are activism the difference between

me and you is that i buy a three million

dollar house and then call myself an

activist

while streaming in front of 50 000

people on twitch telling them they can't

do a general strike

me and motherfuckers like this is that i

know i am irrelevant ultimately okay i

am nothing without my community here's

the thing is that you're not irrelevant

you fucking dumbass you have 50 000

concurrent viewers how is that fucking

irrelevant you're just not good at using

the following that you have to actually

make a difference in the world which is

why we're gonna fall off hassan i

guarantee you're gonna fall off your

shit is not going to fucking actually

last