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- Jul 27, 2017
Indeed, your average BreadTuber's opinions share more ideas with Anarchists or at least moderate Socialists than Marxists especially when considering the dedication to social issues over economics and class struggle, but these people are all radlibs in practice. Despite their calls for revolution, their entire public persona is purely performative rhetorical signaling, and they all depend on the system in its current form to afford their chosen lifestyles. If capitalism as we know it ended tomorrow, so would BreadTube. And, as @ωσкє вℓυє мυѕℓιм qυєєη mentioned, these people generally suffer some form of depression from feeling disenfranchised which is in contradiction with the very fact they can occupy any given social media space with near impunity unlike the Fascists they so despise. BreadTubers clearly want to change the world, but are completely clueless how to enact positive change. What's even stranger is how they fetishize the few legitimately working class people who are ostensibly sympathetic to radical leftism. They fawn over them the same way White Democrats fawn over a Black person.These breadtubers aren't all Marxists, but honestly, I'd say the Anarchist Socialists they try to act like are even worse. Even Marx and Engels realized the issue was one of economic and societal structure, whereas these guys think if you answer the social question, the structural and economic questions will magically go away.
I'd rather they be actual Marxists, because at least then they would have some leg to stand on with arguments about the congregation of wealth flows or the hell that industrialization without worker rights creates for workers, but no, the breadtube clique had to go for something even more stupid than Agrarian Socialism.
I think the worst part is how they take the name of these causes, Socialism, Marxism, etc, and use them for their own identity, despite not even wanting those systems. From everything I can see, what these guys want is just Corporate Capitalism, same as it is now, but where "intellectuals" like themselves are given a stipend, and actual production is out of sight, out of mind in some other country. It's wild.