Comments by "Two-Row Euro" (@fun_ghoul) on "India & Global Left"
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OK, so I will preface this comment by saying it's a lot of conjecture; in my defence, when we don't have the facts to ascertain a thing, our choices are conjecture or darkness. I choose the light. Don't hate.
So anyway, I've for a long time assumed that Eddie "Liger" Smith is a daily, hardcore alcoholic from his mannerisms and speech. My father, grandmother and best friend were all functional alcoholics, so I'm pretty highly attuned to the "tells". Anyway, I would never chalk this up to anything more than a medical condition in and of itself...but for the added context of an early-twenties uni student with an apparently unlimited budget to push fake, bastardized Marxism (i.e. "patriotic American socialism") onto kids so they come to believe that one can both have the cake of liberating workers while also eating the cake of liberation for the Indigenous* peoples who are victims of an ongoing genocide to this day.
This being the case, one must ask if the mental "tools", if one can call them that, used by alcoholics in daily life to cope with the stress of being found out are also useful in pushing CIA propaganda. I mean, I'd say Smith and Garrido are both quite well-versed in Marxist literature and thought...yet they come to a completely different conclusion than people like Lenin, Stalin and Mao (while bastardizing their positions and claiming them as allies). In this vein, the concept of a "purity fetish" being pushed by these same people who presume to shut down people's liberation movements with dogmatism over century-old texts is HILARIOUS.
With all of the above said, the actual thrust of this comment was with regard to how Smith and Garrido are behaving on camera. In Smith's case, it's WRT the recent Black Red Guard video "How Much Can He Take? BRG watches Vaush", where Comrade BRG notices how in his "debate" with Vaush, Smith looked evasive and mendacious because he wouldn't look at the camera. (I would add that he was also sweaty and red-faced, like he just shotgunned a can of beer, and his speech was disjointed compared to more eloquent "Liger" videos.)
Now, compare to this video. Even when Jyotishman was listing his bona fides at the beginning, Carlos was turning back and forth in his chair, kinda staring off into space. Now I'm at 8:18, and he's doing it while he answers, turning and not looking at the camera. I don't view this as a "Parenti flubs the mic" thing either, but as a sign of extreme nervousness...but why? He's here among friends, he has wide latitude to present his thesis, he knows his material quite well...but he's nervous.
It's nice to imagine a world where everyone is sincere and has no agenda, but I think enough people are doing that sort of analysis. I'm saying "Midwestern Marx" is Langley all the way.
*The word "Indigenous" is problematic, inasmuch as the original meaning is something (e.g a people-group) which is self-replicating. It didn't originally connote a connection to the place where the self-replication happened.
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