Comments by "harvey young" (@harveyyoung3423) on "" video.
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Mr. Raja Miah gives and interesting account of how the left work in terms of how they use the shell like nexus of institutions to schematise voting numbers through power. I mean obviously i don't understand his much, and so am trusting his account. It's interesting philosophically in that the complex structures show that politics is not just brut force for the post raw materialist left, rather it is force though complex and externally incomprehensible institutional schemas and in the end about maintaining the foundation of numbers. Until they can dismantle democracy completely.
Mr. Raja Miah in presenting this manifold schematic against the old left's myth of brute force has too external a view still. In terms of reason it remains external and descriptive. I would want to add then, that in my experience with the left and radical left , which is long and extensive and from the inside, that they draw in heavily on internal reasons or first person reasons. this tactic takes many forms but the basic schema is the same.
So rather than diving into Donald Davidson and Bernard Williams, i can give a hypothetical example. So Mr. Raja Miah chooses not to wear a tie. It's his choice but there is or was a norm of wearing tie for those in his position, that would be a limit on his freedom. So a lefty could say to him "This norm limits your freedom. You have the founding basic human Right to choose whether to wear a tie or not. We can help you to avail your self of that right. We have the lawyers and money to do so from finance given by International human rights institutions." So he may consent to accepting their help in this. But then later, and following a considerable payment to their lawyers from the International fund, they will approach him for help and support in a project for some other schema of international right like the right to wear shoes without laces. They will say "Look you heled yourself to this international right over your tie, now it would be under the pain of inconsistency and hypocrisy for you not to support this other freedom and right. "You are not an inconsistent hypocrite are you?" "who has one rule for themselves and another for other equivalent cases of freedom. You are nota selfish individualist are you?
Indeed they will go so far as to create something against you themselves, so you have to then get their help in getting them to stop by appeal to their own rights schema. eg How to get Mr Raja Miah to agree to the right to wear shoes without laces? Make a rule that you can't not wear a tie. and apply shame and the threat of expulsion. i guess at the institutional external level, they will say "no one hypocritical and inconsistent can have a position in their shell like schema.
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