Boots does some good work from what I hear and he actually calls himself a communist which is pretty significant, I don’t really think you need to be on a FBI watch list to be a real leftist either, that’s absurd.
Hasan I don’t care or know anything about.
comparing Hasan whos basically a lib with a communist like Boots is insulting tbh
Why do you think people like Hasan or Boots can find huge platform in Amazon? Simply they are not an immediate threat to capital.
it’s not that simple because capital commodifies everything - even revolutionary work - as long as it gives them money
like it says in the old quote, the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them
naturally this process of commodification can also trivialize the message and/or co-opt its authors, but that’s another matter
Why do you think people like Hasan or Boots can find huge platform in Amazon? Simply they are not an immediate threat to capital.
No single individual is an immediate threat to an institution.
But, as Lenin liked to say, the Capitalist will sell us the rope we hang him with.
At some point, the middle-manager doing production at Amazon isn’t looking for ideology. That person’s looking for a positive revenue stream. If Boots costs $X to produce and yields $X*2, he’s a good investment whether he’s minting Obama-style white noise or Revolutionary rhetoric. These people just don’t care how they make a buck.
