Comments by "Wandering Existence" (@WanderingExistence) on "Second Thought" channel.

@jnmedina8989 "Racism" I feel like this is just some BS like claiming that he's "islamophobic" even though he really just standing up for women's rights.... Give me some concrete examples cuz I've listened to dozens of hours of his sniffly talks and I have not heard much racism beyond having a problem with certain cultural hierarchies, at times flippantly calling them "stupid" or "pathetic". Hardly "racist", he's just a critical thinker that doesn't buy into liberal notions of accepting every single culture as "good".
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@ncpolley I've listened to dozens of hours of Zizek,; he has views that deviate from liberal conceptions of racial justice, but I would hardly consider him a racist. Vulgar for sure, but I don't buy this claim, especially when you only have vague remembrances. Nobody can even tell me what group he was outcasting? Like c'mon, he's admittedly pro-refugee and tries to show how right-wingers utilize ideology too scapegoat certain out groups 😂🤣 His work has been massively insightful but all people can do is throw hollow ad homs, and so on? I'm not believing it until somebody can actually give me an example- and I don't believe that's an unreasonable standard of evidence to have before leveling such a claim.
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@NorthumbrianMarxist Tbh, no it hasn't always been great. Famines, secret police, gulags, torture and terror. Tell me all you want about the technological and industrial advancements that the Soviet Union was able to create, the authoritarian state-capitalist transitionary method that many socialists utilized was/is horrific. People like Xi in China are friends of the working class.
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280 million people already work at worker cooperatives
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 @Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs Thank you for your continued support. Solidarity, my friend.
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@williamrelue So? How does that justify capitalism?
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We hunger for stability but capitalism is a system that's constantly in crisis, one bust after another.
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Personally, I've been interested in a grassroots groups called the Next System Project and the Democracy Collaborative. They have devised a way to keep production local for key anchor institutions and contract service to cooperatives. They have helped multiple cities struggling with job loss due to factory closures build back their communities, in the US and UK. In addition, trade unions, collectives, public banks, credit unions, community land trusts, CSA's, and many other democratically controlled institutions can work together to create democratic networks outside the market to create an economy that doesn't reduce people, their governments, and the environment to a monetary value. I think this can be a viable strategy to give people the autonomy over their work. I believe economic democracy is the only way people who work for the economy will have the economy work for them, their families, and the planet too. This way of revitalizing communities by building community wealth has helped many communities all over the globe, and it is utilized by the UK labor party and touted by Jeremy Corbyn. Preston, Lancashire became the most improved city in the UK because of community wealth building. Not to mention, much of the progress in labor rights has been due to union's collective power. The thing that draws my conviction to the movement is that I can see it now, helping empower people to live happier, healthier, and wealthier lives.
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