Why COMMUNISTS Should Value Traditions

okay what's up everybody

we got a lot of shit to talk about today

a lot of shit is on my mind a lot of

shit i want to do

a lot of shit i want to talk about we're

going to talk about china some things

going on in china first things first i

got some stuff on my mind

you know that i was thinking about that

i want to talk about i want to talk

about why

communists

must

be

traditionalists a lot of people ask me

how's why are you so conservative why

are you so traditionalist what's this

traditionalism this why are you so

conservative why do you believe in all

these dumb traditions you know

so i'm gonna explain that to you i've

been watching marco polo the netflix

show but when i watch shows and shit it

gets me thinking you know i start

thinking about stuff right and i want to

really talk to you guys about something

i also want to address a lot of these

smart intellectuals who don't see any

significance in the debate bro culture

and the rhetoric and the sophistry you

know because i was really thinking right

so i saw this video that coconut island

the boss channel shared and it got me

thinking it got me thinking about

narratives i've been talking about

narratives a lot right it's something

i've been struggling with a little bit

even though i shouldn't because i should

know better so vosh has a copium

narrative so look at this title boss

reacts to infrared molding after losing

to a debate to our relevant and then the

description was maulding after losing

debate to our relevant he screams for a

while then tries to cope and blames john

cerca for why he lost the debate it got

me thinking why am i so mad at people

spinning narratives when narratives are

everything to begin with there's so many

ways you can break down the narrative

manipulation but it's not intentional

this is just how they spun it and it's

kind of my fault because i wasn't

thinking about narratives they're making

it seem like i got mad because i was

losing to him i guess he's smarter than

me and more knowledgeable so i lost to

him in a debate and then i got mad and

then i coped and then i blamed zerka for

losing so like there's so many facets to

it first i lose and get mad and the

reason i'm mad is i lost the debate and

then me getting pissed at zerka only

reinforces that narrative right but

obviously you guys know that's not what

happened right he got his ass whooped

the whole fucking time for six hours

then at the very very end the dude was

annoying the shit out of me so i yelled

of course i yell in every debate and

then i got pissed at zerka because he

wasn't defending my character at the end

it wasn't about the debate it was about

the personality let's go thank you man

it was about the personal attacks and

defamation anyone who bitches about shit

like that is a cop and i'm gonna explain

why it's such a bitch move to bitch

about narratives because we could sit

here all day and go no the narratives

are wrong that's not what happened no

the narratives are wrong it's not what

happened narratives are everything it's

why we're doing this right it's why

we're out here in this public sphere of

public opinion and social opinion

because ultimately people are gonna spin

a narrative they're not gonna focus on

the substantive content

but here's what i wanted to talk about

right why do i why am i a mongol why am

i a mongol chat why do i say this is the

wild west why am i the khan why am i a

mongol what is going on here what what

is this kingdoms and mongols and battles

that we're talking about right what is

all this shit well i'm kind of botching

it we can look to hegel for a second

let's turn to hegel just for a second

promise you it's going to be very simple

to understand it's not going to be too

crazy it's not going to be too out of

this realm you when you look at it from

a hegelian perspective hegel has a word

he calls this the spiritual animal

kingdom so in hegel's philosophy he

outlines how we as individuals realize

our inner freedom through the external

state the state gives us rights and we

oblige it with duties but then he talks

at the end in his flaw of his philosophy

of right but something called the

spiritual animal kingdom what is the

spiritual animal kingdom all of you

people who have an issue with this

debate sophistry and this rhetoric and

this smoking mirrors dishonest tactics

and you know all this rhetorical

emotional stuff you should really pay

attention here right because i'm only

going to give you one fucking chance to

stop being nerds and actually i'm going

to explain it to you intellectually so

you can shut the fuck up and stop acting

so high and mighty like you're above all

this dumb bullshit so with the spiritual

animal kingdom i'm not gonna give you a

thorough explanation i myself am still

struggling to really really understand

it's so ambiguous what hegel means by

this to me right but the way you can pin

it down is this there is somehow a

distinction between our inner subjective

feeling as individuals and our

intentions when we creating something or

putting something out there in the

public and the way it's going to be

received by the public so for example in

my state of mind in this debate it's

just me bullying a nerd and putting a

nerd in his place the actual effect of

what i did was just generate all of

these extra narratives that had nothing

to do with how i personally was

experiencing it let's say you're an

artist right and you craft a work of art

and you have some kind of idea in your

head of what this means and what it's

about and what its implications are but

then you put it out into the public and

the public has an entirely different

response and reaction well for hegel

that sphere of the public narratives and

rumors and you know judgments and

perceptions and arbitrary perceptions

things like that i think that's what

hegel means i'm open to being corrected

because here if my knowledge is not this

is something i struggle with hegel was

the spiritual animal kingdom still but

this is the spiritual animal kingdom and

the reason it's a spiritual animal

kingdom is because just like the jungle

in an animal kingdom you cannot account

for what the public effect is going to

be it's like a completely arbitrary kind

of wilderness and the reason debate

culture is so fucking um such a good

example of that is like the most

arbitrary thing can tip a debate

optically let's say i slept that i'm

debating someone and i sneeze and then i

tear up just because of a physical

reaction completely arbitrary the

narrative is that i in the debate i

cried they brought me to tears it's a

wilderness you can't account for it you

can't control it it's like an animal

kingdom right and yet the reason it's

spiritual is it's because this it's this

kind of immaterial intangible sphere of

perceptions and subjective

interpretations and narratives that's

just like spiritual it's like it's not

something you can ground so that's how i

understand

hegel's spiritual animal kingdom

watching it and obviously not giving an

adequate full explanation but that's how

i understand it

you know it really put me into

perspective cause i was watching the

show marco polo and i was watching the

wedding and i realized something that

i've always known is that you know a

good way to explain this to you guys and

this is what gave me the idea to explain

it to you of why traditionalism is so

important what do you think traditions

are meant to account for do you think

traditions are about your subjective

feeling as an individual no that doesn't

matter you can feel whatever you want

traditions are meant to describe and to

give form to give the form to this wild

kingdom of just arbitrary public

perceptions honor and shame like the

reason why for example virginity is

important in marriage in traditional

societies it's not because of the

subjective aspect of course from that

perspective who cares right nothing

matters it's just what is the public

saying about you marriage is a way to

maintain your honor in this face of the

public sphere and you can say i don't

care what the public thinks all you want

but that's still what's going to define

you traditionalism or whatever right all

that is is just a way of managing those

things and being able to live in a

society and live in some kind of like

being bigger than yourself while being

able to manage the public perceptions

and expectations about you in a

consistent and you know familiar way and

it's also a source of great dignity

because not only is it about what you're

doing and what the people around you

involved with you are doing it's about

how you validate yourself in the social

realm that's what honor means that's

what pride means that's what dignity

means like a lot of people respond to

traditionalism for example this is

totally arbitrary wedding practices and

they're just like hey this is stupid

this is like superstition why do we have

to you know pour milk into a bowl and

drink why do we have to do all these

dumb things that you know it doesn't

even make sense because you're thinking

of it in an individualistic way you're

not thinking about the fact that this is

the way people manage and attend to this

just public and you don't really

understand this until you're a public

figure because again i can do the

slightest things and narratives are

gonna get spun about me that are that

are meant to dishonor me and shame me

for things i have nothing to do with

right traditionalism is just a way to be

able to manage that and just kind of

conform to uh reasonable social

expectations just so you can be a free

individual and my understanding of what

it truly means to be a free modern

subject is that we do need a traditional

substantive completely arbitrary it

doesn't have to make rational sense to

you if we have this completely arbitrary

way of ordering ourselves we won't be

thrown to the mercy of this wilderness

of the spiritual animal kingdom where

we're just being defined in ways that

are unclear and not familiar to us and

not accustomed to us and completely um

you know at odds with who we are

on the one hand we're private figures

with inner feelings right and on the

other hand we're public people who are

defined by the expectations and

perceptions around us and liberalism is

trying to make it seem like those are

the same thing and they're not liberals

are the type that go well who cares what

the public thinks that doesn't matter

all that matters is how i feel but

that's not true because you're still

being defined by these public

perceptions like look at twitch debates

do you really think twitch debates are

about like individuals battling their

individual ideas no it's about people

trying to save face in public from being

humiliated and being you know you you

can act like you don't care about what

people think but that's the every single

reason for the actions you're doing can

be explained on those terms

you know who's an example of a guy who

doesn't care about what the public

thinks me at least in that debate i

didn't care what they thought i

literally just wanted to like assert

dominance over that guy i didn't care

what anyone thought i just wanted it

literally wanted to get in his head and

at least show the child like yeah look

what i'm doing to your streamer that's

how i was thinking about it but little

did i know i was being defined in a way

that had nothing to do with my own

intentions did they start doing armchair

psychology oh hi this is insecure has is

coping hazard has care so much and i

don't care like imagine you don't care

about something and somebody goes to you

so much about this you kidding someone

what can you say what literally can you

say you can't say anything it's like

what if you just don't care what then

right the more you like show that you

don't care the more they're gonna accuse

you of intentionally acting that way to

cope with the fact that you do care and

it's like but you can't complain about

that that's the thing you can't complain

about it because again we're not just

subjective individuals we are at the

mercy of just this this

general perception that we're all trying

to address and refer to right it's what

people call optics and a lot of

intellectuals they come through like

don't you think this shit is stupid

actually no one comes to me and says

this but i see people commenting like

dude this is stupid debate broke

culture's stupid it's not actually about

rational debate or anything it's just

about chest beating and guerrilla

bullshit and i think saying yeah that's

very true it's not a sight of truth it's

not a sight of intellectual truth at

least 100 it's not but look at the

debate i had with perspective philosophy

is that actually a debate in the

public's eye about who's right and who's

wrong on the meat and potato substantive

points no it's a debate about who knows

their shit versus who's lying and

doesn't know anything you know what i

mean that's how people are gonna see it

you gotta understand that despite the

fact that this is these debates are not

a site of intellectual truth they are

some kind of site of truth and to me

that truth how would i explain it it's

not a site of intellectual truth but

it's a site of ideological

truth if that makes sense it's a site of

like it's just this vague optics of like

who

is better who is better stronger

better looking even yeah that matters in

a debate believe it or not you know it's

things like that it's not actually about

intellectual truth it's about a more

fundamental social truth i want to

represent a return to traditionalism the

reason i'm a mongol is because just like

the mongols are roaming the steps as

nomads in this wild place all bets are

off there's no establish anything we

live in the wild western america we

don't have traditions we don't have

things to which we measure our honor and

shame and dignity and tradition we have

none of those things we don't have any

sense of substantive truth we only have

a sense of subjective individual

rational truth we don't have any sense

of like this more fundamental social

truth and in order to be able to prevail

you have to win the wild west you have

to be the con that conquers the wild

step

j stalin on why he named himself after

stalin let's see what is this

okay and were you jay stalin back then

no i was like my name was jv but yeah my

name was when i when i by the time the

shit came out on rich album

i had changed my name to j style

okay but my name was just jv back then

little jv okay

and you actually named yourself after

joseph stalin yeah right now i'm russian

myself

this is not a very good dude

right here

stalin soy

soy

toy

the fuck you mean it wasn't a good dude

fucking vibe killing bitch

killed a lot of people

you know what i'm saying this dude's

like i don't give a fuck

i've done that too

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some people even put them up here with

hitler

in terms of the amount of

murderers and everything else when i was

um when i was in the 11th grade i had to

do a paper on styling yeah and i was

just

reading up on him doing a lot of reading

and research upon him again uh

first of all i figured out we got the

same initials my initials is js too

like my government net and then

i figured out

he was only like five four maybe like

five five

so i'm hella small so it was just how

tall it is

five six

bro

yo that's fucking crazy

that's the reason

yo for real real recognize real that's

all i can say real recognize real that's

all i can say

real recognize real you know what i'm

saying don't matter ideology

doesn't matter anything about that

real recognize real

that's the truth we just had a lot of

the same characteristics

okay and then i'm like

i'm gonna be the rap joseph style and

i'm gonna murder all these niggas

all right

i mean you know it's one of those things

where i'm like all right

you know i didn't feel no type of way

about it

but uh you know shit it is what it is i

guess it's better than jay hitler

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so what is the ever grande crisis and

why is china a communist state

and why how is it doing a new land

reform and how is china subverting the

new class of the ruling class evergrande

was a development company right the

development country that has become very

indebted over the years so this is a

real estate development company it's

developing houses people to fucking live

in became very indebted and the debt

sent shock waves throughout markets and

the reason why it became indebted is

because it had ambitions that strayed

far from its core business which is how

it got from this mess it didn't focus on

building homes and shit like that it

just went above and beyond to turn

profits so how is the chinese government

going to respond so a lot of people

think this is going to be a lehman

brothers moment it's going to be a 2008

crisis movement well actually why don't

you look at how the chinese government

responds to companies that get

themselves into messes and endanger the

economy imminent china evergrande deal

will see ccp take control sources close

to the government have said that the

deal that it's going to be restructured

into three separate entities finished by

the communist party and state-owned

enterprises will underpin the

restructure transforming the property

developer into a state-owned enterprise

they're basically going to nationalize

it they fuck up like that that's what

happens now what happened in 2008 during

the lehman brothers crisis and this

financial bullshit huh you had a bailout

by the government the government didn't

take any control they didn't restructure

anything they just bailed them out the

complete contrast isn't it the deal is

being designed to protect chinese

nationals who have bought apartments

from evergrande so the basis of the deal

is to protect the people who are going

to get fucked over like the ordinary

people it has to pay a coupon payment

yeah shareholders will get fucked

whatever right so we're noticing a

consistent pattern in china which is the

chinese communist party is consistently

going after the ruling class within

china now how the fuck are they able to

do that a lot of people people i've

debated have made the accusation that

china is corporatist

but it is literally not corporatist and

i'll explain why the communist party

does not negotiate or share power with

any sector of the chinese economy in a

corporatist economy eventually the ccp

would have to come to terms with the

fact that all these billionaires and all

of these companies that are arising

represent the sectoral interests of the

chinese country and you have to

negotiate

with them and work out a deal with them

to share power the communist party says

no we will fucking annihilate you we

will completely nationalize you we will

replace you you are not party to our

power only the communist party has power

that's why and believe it or not

objectively speaking from a materialist

standpoint china does not have a ruling

class a ruling class comes to a

understanding with the state that the

state is going to serve their interests

and is going to

share power right we are the captains of

industry you need us we need you let's

work out a deal that is not how the

chinese communist party rolls it does

not work out deals with the capitalists

it does not come to win-win agreements

with capitalists it says we are pursuing

a path to develop

our economy to serve the interests of

the overwhelming majority of the chinese

people

if you go against us on this you're done

if you fail you're done

if we decide that you shouldn't exist

anymore

you're

done

what government can get away with that

now i've been watching marco polo the

show on netflix and even i know that the

khan the supreme leader of the land he's

got to negotiate with the lords because

the lords hold power locally they they

outsource a lot of the power that keeps

the order of things intact you know a

ruling class isn't just people getting

behind the scenes and rigging shit those

are the people who like maintain the

order all these billionaires in china

and capitalists who wield so much power

their bosses who maintain the order

right so you think the communist party

would be at like a standstill and being

able to fulfill the requirements of

unleashing the forces of production and

just eliminating them right but that's

not true the communist party is bound by

no private interests it is only bound by

the general interests of the chinese

people and what is an example of that

the reason the communist party is able

to get away with all of these things

it's doing ever grande jack ma alibaba

cracking down on these financial markets

and these industries and these sectors

of society is because it has a mandate

from the chinese people at the same time

that xi's government is cracking down on

china's new class and ruling class it is

uplifting the chinese people and

acquiring the enthusiasm devotion and

support of chinese people who are

getting new apartments they're getting

new deals they're being cultivated with

new enterprises small enterprises that

won't allow monopolies to emerge here's

the tweet i like to save that's an

example of this this is it she and his

underlings still talk about the need to

develop the private sector uh which

accounts for 80 of china's urban jobs

but officials say the focus is now on

fostering small and mid-sized companies

in areas ranging from power equipment to

sensors and semiconductors that aren't

likely to become alternative power bases

these firms are expected to emphasize

innovation that elevates china's

manufacturing capabilities over profits

okay

so how do i

how do we explain this in terms of land

reform and populism let me ask you a

question who benefits from this move by

the chinese government is it the

established big monopolies that exist

within china or is it going to be the

chinese people the hidden talents from

the people who the government wants to

invest in and cultivate to draw out

their talents so that they can be a

threat to these monopolies first and

foremost and how are they going to do

that well innovation is what they call

disruption in silicon valley right you

have disruptive small startups that pose

a challenge to entire monopolies and

this is a good deal for the communist

party because the communist party does

not want monopolies to form that are

going to be alternative power bases to

the government so you know what that

means right it means this is the

equivalent of a kind of land reform land

reform isn't just one thing it's giving

people apart small one-size-department

units it's giving people soil and ground

to stand upon so that the government

actually gives the people a piece of the

pie in the economy not only to give them

wealth but give them the source of

creating wealth you understand the

reason the government in china can go

against this ruling class because you

know what happens otherwise right in a

corporatist economy big companies become

alternative power bases and just like in

feudalism you have to work out deals

with these power bases you have to make

sure they're happy they're happy they're

happy because you're sharing power with

them because they have so much

concentrated economic power that they

become a political power that you got to

negotiate with and suddenly china's

policies are no longer focused on

uplifting and serving the overwhelming

majority of the chinese people's

interests but making sacrifices and

compromises to deal with these

alternative power bases the communist

party says no we are the chinese

communist party we represent the chinese

people

not special interests

and the one percent

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