The Truth About Anarchism

The Truth About Anarchism is a video by Haz of Infrared from Jan 7, 2022.

Outline / notes

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• 6:54 Stream starts
• 9:35 Introduction (PCUSA attacked by anarchists, Infrared book table, and Haz’s tweet that got all the midwits riled up)
• 21:55 What is anarchism?
• 26:03 Haz’s interpretation of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “The Mask of Anarchy”
• 33:23 Anarchism as the vacuum of statehood (The English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes, and Max Stirner)
• 43:08 All that is solid melts into air (The French Revolution, negation, and the modern state)
• 50:41 Hegel against the anarchist view of statehood and history
• 56:43 The common metaphysical basis of anarchism and liberalism
• 59:50 Marxism and anarchism are fundamentally incompatible + Australian Dreamtime
• 1:31:59 Anarchist vs Marxist views of the state
• 1:43:46 Where does fascism fit into this?
• 1:45:45 Anarchism as an ideological tradition (Proudhon and corporatism)
• 2:12:31 The urban lumpenproletariat
• 2:18:12 How fascists ‘abolished the state’
• 2:32:40 Anarchism is a lumpen cultural trend
• 2:33:27 The Spanish Civil War
• 2:42:08 Anarchism as the idealogical form of American cultural globalism (The revival of anarchism during the Cold War and May ‘68)
• 2:57:34 Azov anarchists
• 3:06:43 Contemporary anarchism
• 3:08:41 Anarchist American cultural globalism, China’s Cultural Revolution, and multipolarity
• 3:14:20 The Leviathan of American globalist cultural and punk rock gatekeeping
• 3:31:14 Western Marxism and Leftism is anarchist + The meaning of Marxism-Leninism in the age of multipolarity
• 4:02:26 Conclusion: Hitler was an anarchist.
• 4:05:14 Outro