I’ve been writing the next Very Important Doc. The first draft is done; I’ll be fine-tuning it for the next few weeks before I record the voiceover and begin production. It’s been incredibly difficult because I am attempting to nullify the political spectrum. That isn’t an easy one.
However, I was on the phone with my mom this morning and explained it to her, and she understood. Obviously, readers of this do not know my mom, but I will say that she is an old lib who doesn’t understand Marxism and doesn’t think about capitalism or class.
The document I am currently producing provides a means to understand pretty much all of that. It explains the materialist concept of class and then grounds the left and right in their origin: the French Revolution. At that time, “left” did not mean “progress”. It meant “the bourgeoisie.” And “right” did not mean “reaction”. It meant “the aristocracy.” At that time, there was a class basis for the left/right dichotomy.
After that, however, the bourgeoisie absorbed the aristocracy, and there was no longer a material basis for this dichotomy. The ideals either side stands for are inherited from factions of one class. One thing. “Progress” and “reaction” are concepts; they are subjective. They don’t have to have anything to do with a materialist concept of class, and therefore, at the most general level, they do not.
A horseshoe is one thing. It has two sides, but it is one thing. That one thing is the class whose material interest is preserving capitalism. The ends of the horseshoe represent the two reactions to the capitalist crisis: globalized degrowth (left) and war/isolationism (right). These reactions assume capitalism must (or at least will) survive and do not seek to transform anything fundamentally.
The name of the doc will be Horseshoe Theory is Right, But Not How You Think.
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Nice. Will watch it ASAP.
Looking forward to it