Thursday, October 23, 2014

i finally got around to watching (listening) to this and it is in fact a quite insightful and forward thinking analysis of the situation, as spoken from the mid 70s. i just really wish that he didn't throw the word socialism around like he does...

you have to wonder if he's even trying to take advantage of the cold war propaganda in speaking of the identified enemy. if you actually read his books, you'll learn that the "socialists" he speaks of are high finance bankers and ultra capitalists that are perverting marxist theory for their own goals, in order to "capture foreign markets". he manages to call them socialists, then describe them as hegemonic globalist capitalists. he makes this clear on repeated occasions - he doesn't actually think they're actually socialists, he knows it's all a cynical ploy. further, the system he often references - and there are strong parallels in the three types of collectivism - has nothing to do with workers running their own factories...

the problem is that it makes it hard to recommend his work. you have to read it very critically. but it's very much worth exploring.