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Anarchist socialist Jiang uses as the anti-vanguard, relation-centered foil to Marx.
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Anarchist socialist Jiang uses as the anti-vanguard, relation-centered foil to Marx.
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diagnosis
Bakunin's objection is that any vanguard becomes a new capitalist class and recreates empire under socialist names.
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Jiang contrasts Marx's object-reflection model with Bakunin's interpersonal reflection: freedom is confirmed by other free people, not by products.
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Jiang returns to Bakunin: inward self-analysis is navel-gazing, while meaning, purpose, love, and freedom are found in each other.
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Jiang reads Bakunin as saying freedom in absolute isolation is not real freedom but nothingness or slavery because freedom is produced socially.
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Reading Bakunin, Jiang argues that freedom exists only through a community of free others; isolated freedom is nothingness and slavery.
diagnosis
Bakunin's anti-vanguard warning matters to Jiang because scientific administration by experts becomes technocracy, alienation, and brutalization.
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"So all Marx is doing is, taking Jacob Frank's ideas and systemizing it. Now I'm not saying that Marx was a Frankist. He's probably..."
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"As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness, but living human reality. And we recognize that man can feel free, be free, and..."
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"If you have a vanguard, they'll just become a new capitalist class, okay? What's the difference, man? If you are a vanguard, if you..."
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"So this is really important, okay? This may seem the same as Marx, but they're saying different things. Marx says, no, the object is..."
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"The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own, as the individualists claim. On the contrary, it is the confirmation, realization, and..."
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"of all this is, as Buchanan tells us, it's all self -directed inwards, which gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself...."
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"Does that make sense? All right. So why would that be bad? Why would the cult of the self be bad? Well, this is..."
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"And we think that's a good thing because we're taught that individuality, individualism means free choice. It means freedom. What he's saying is that's..."
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"of the self, if you believe that you are the source of everything, then you're not capable of collective action. So in many ways,..."
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"God, the figment of God, has been historically the moral source, or rather, the moral source of all slaveries. So what he's saying is,..."
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"And Buchanan lived in the 9th century, but if you read Freud, then you will also argue that the cult of psychoanalysis, it's really..."
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"Okay. Let's talk about the vanguard idea. So, for Marx a really important idea is you need intellectual elite to lead the proletariat into..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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