Anarchist socialist Jiang uses as the anti-vanguard, relation-centered foil to Marx.
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Bakunin
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Bakunin's objection is that any vanguard becomes a new capitalist class and recreates empire under socialist names.
Jiang contrasts Marx's object-reflection model with Bakunin's interpersonal reflection: freedom is confirmed by other free people, not by products.
Jiang returns to Bakunin: inward self-analysis is navel-gazing, while meaning, purpose, love, and freedom are found in each other.
Reading Bakunin, Jiang argues that freedom exists only through a community of free others; isolated freedom is nothingness and slavery.
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..."
"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..."
"As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness, but living human reality. And we recognize that man can feel free, be free, and..."
"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..."
"The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own, as the individualists claim. On the contrary, it is the confirmation, realization, and..."
"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...."
"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,..."
"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,..."
"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..."
"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..."
"On the contrary it is confirmation realization and human dignity of all persons to see and feel my freedom confirmed sanctioned and expended by..."
"The domination of life by science can have no other result than the brutalization of mankind. Okay. This is a very important passage. All..."
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