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Ryan Dawson Thread Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 20:31:28 No.1314

What is /marx/'s opinion on Native American Indian Activist Ry Dawson's youtube channel?

He did a very good 10/10 video exposing the Zionist and Imperialist agenda in Syria here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vD6JpJAFI

He also created a much longer 1 hour long video explaining the entire history of imperialist US foreign policy here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3TJXTtE4g

And the link to his youtube channel where he speaks out against Neo-Con Republicans and Zionist imperialists is here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Rys2sense

I don't think that Ry Dawson himself is a Marxist or a leftist but I think that leftists such as yourself can find useful arguments against imperialism in these videos that might help your cause. For example, somebody who posts here could create a new youtube channel where they take Ry Dawson's ideas about imperialism and Zionism and "reblog" them or make their own videos containing these same basic facts about oil pipelines and capitalist imperialism in the middle east but filter these facts through a Marxist perspective and use them to promote a Marxist agenda.

Please let me know what you think about these videos!

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 12:52:20 No.1333

I saw this first video before, seemed pretty good.

>Please let me know what you think about these videos!

Are you him?

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 01:18:32 No.1360

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>>1333
>Are you him?

No, I'm not him. I was fishing for marxist responses to his videos so that In could get ideas for comments to post at the bottom of his youtube videos that might steer his opinions more to the left. Did you watch the second video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3TJXTtE4g

all the way through?

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 09:46:39 No.1364

>>1360

I think I did, but I can't remember since it was a decent while ago.

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 10:16:00 No.1366

>>1360

Has he said anything about Marxism or socialism in general?

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 11:36:40 No.1370

>>1368
>Send him a message on youtube and start talking to him in that case. And maybe I'll rewatch it.

Sorry about that post deletion and re-posting. I was editing mis-spelled words in my previous post.

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 11:39:20 No.1371

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>>1364
>>1366
>>1364
>>1366
>Has he said anything about Marxism or socialism in general?

Please watch this 60 minute video all the way through and find out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3TJXTtE4g

How are you going to lead the vanguard of the proletariat to bring the people to socialism if you don't have the attention span to sit through a 60 minute long video and then discuss it with a fellow comrade?

I've looked at a few Marxist youtube channels so far and many of them have a solid Marxist theoretical background but they lack a close focus on the actual details of what is actually going on in the world which is what Dawson has. Dawson has massive talent when it comes to his ability to analyze world events and see which direction the winds of imperialism and capitalism are blowing, if we could win him over to our side he could maybe be the Lenin of the 21st century, who knows?

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 15:57:20 No.1373

>>1371

Yeah I noticed that problem as well. They have a fine historical point of view and understanding of dialectical materialism, etc. But then they fail to correctly apply it to the current situations.

Anonymous 11/14/14 (Fri) 07:03:58 No.1405

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>>1373
>But then they fail to correctly apply it to the current situations.

Exactly! So what was your opinion of the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3TJXTtE4g

Any idea how the information in that ^^ video could be transformed into another video that told the story more from a Marxist perspective?

Anonymous 11/15/14 (Sat) 02:11:59 No.1411

>>1405

I guess you could talk about the reasons why we have groups like Zionists and elites ruling the government and going to war. Bring in some discussion of the profit motive and monopoly capitalism/imperialism. I guess to abstract it out from just being about Zionists and particular groups, and make it about class conflict in general.

Anonymous 11/16/14 (Sun) 06:07:54 No.1418

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>>1411
>Bring in some discussion of the profit motive and monopoly capitalism/imperialism.

Do you have a good link to a youtube video or a short 1 page or 2 page document that gives a brief outline of how the profit motive ties in to capitalism, imperialism, and zionism?

Anonymous 11/16/14 (Sun) 10:43:20 No.1425

>>1418

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Also it should be relatively simple to research on your own since that's not exactly some obscure element of Marxism.