"Successful revolutions" and "left unity"
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2022-10-08

We are using the wrong criteria for “successful revolutions”. Leftists have a lot to unlearn before they are ready to work toward revolution.

0:24 what is a successful revolution?
3:17 capitalist criteria for socialism
16:46 revolution or bureaucracy?
19:37 what's the point of left unity?

Links:

The previous videos in this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po_7LAnkPJQ&list=PL3waFZldV-Y2v4Udva9kgk-M1yOVbecY1

Examples of free societies today and historically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqnzu_mQ6Y&list=PL3waFZldV-Y2NZuI-sQAtT_Y1CzXfwJHT&index=6 

Authoritarian leftists: kill the cop in your head by Greg Jackson: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/greg-jackson-authoritarian-leftists-kill-the-cop-in-your-head

Leftism against anarchy: https://medium.com/@NoWing/leftism-against-anarchy-64e83986359c

Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin: https://b-ok.cc/book/17694553/00b698 

“Left unity” in the Iranian Revolution: https://twitter.com/MathanCalifas/status/1573780818962501632?t=gmft-o4NvVPl3OnztZEtGw&s=19 

The invisibility of anarchist organizing: https://twitter.com/magpiekilljoy/status/1558439158439354369?s=20&t=oXg-b4hdc1zm-ekIBvG3DA 

A transcript of this video is available at https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/successful-revolutions-and-left-unity/