The Leftist Pipeline Back to Marxism-Leninism

The Leftist Pipeline Back to Marxism-Leninism is a clip by Haz of Infrared.

Outline / notes

• 0:00 Responding to Hasan Piker
• What Grimes said was more intelligent than what most of the Western left says
• Marxism-Leninism is the pinnacle of human thinking
• 4:20 Haz explaining the cycle:
  • Start as a Tankie, a Marxist-Leninist
  • Become critical of ML-ism, become an anarchist or Noam Chomsky Libertarian Socialist
  • or Trotskyism, like Jacobin Magazine
  • Left Communism
  • The hipster path: John Lucas and Guy Debord
  • The Intellectual path: Zizek, Hegelianism
  • "Capital lover" value-form theorist, Platypus Society
  • Endnotes, Post-Left
  • Althusserians might read about Nick Land, Accelerationism
  • Accelerationism connects you to Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Martin Heidegger and many others
  • "But if you're really smart, you'll come back to Marxism-Leninism"
• 10:51 Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov is a good gateway to this return-to-Marxism-Leninism revelation. Also Boris Groys.
• 11:27 Nick Land's fan base doesn't understand his philosophy