COMMUNISM RULES!!!
CAPITALISM DROOLS!!!
i think squidward is an authleft communist character. he’s a lot like me :)
I mean I have not watched this show so I dont have any context beyond the clip you showed but what I see is that there is no real class analysis, this is very targeted aganst ONE capitalist, even by name with no expansion to others. While I am unsure if this one is particularly worse I would hesitate to belive that to be the case.
Also Auth-Left is a kinda meaningless term,
huh, makes sense. i’m still a young comrade learning about this stuff, my bad
I would recommend Engels’s On Authority
I will offer a bit of a more positive counter-point to what the comrade above said, which is that while, yes, it is important to be able to see the bigger picture and articulate a systemic critique that is not just directed at one individual or company, at the same time the way that class consciousness is built is through the experience of struggle, in particular the struggle of labor against exploitation.
It is important to unite the separate, atomized struggles such as: trade unions striking for better labor conditions, community resistance against police violence, solidarity and mutual aid organizations, tenants uniting against landlords, anti-war activism, activism against racism, sexism, anti-trans bigotry, etc. and tie them into the larger framework of anti-capitalist struggle. But also each individual piece matters too and should not be discounted just because the people involved in those smaller scale struggles do not yet see the bigger picture.
Even protests against one single employer are just another piece of the puzzle, and if nothing else they teach workers about class dynamics, about the diametrically opposed interests of capital and labor, and about the necessity of collective organizing and revolutionary discipline. Many revolutionary cadres come from the labor movement and were once naive left-liberals who believed that a purely economist struggle can succeed in delivering better conditions for the working class.
The common experience that they make is they eventually run into a wall and see that there is only so much that you can achieve unless you are part of a larger political movement. And even those hard won concessions can be taken away if the working class lets up the pressure. Some people become demoralized seeing this and betray the labor movement, they get co-opted, bribed, becoming collaborationist like so many union leaders, but others get further radicalized and learn the hard but necessary lessons.
TL;DR: don’t knock comrade Squidward.
(And yes, OP is right that “authleft” is a silly term, we communists don’t see ourselves that way)
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
