• Bad Mouse Productions: The History of Anarchism in 8 Minutes
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[video=youtube;6YitdjMORoU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YitdjMORoU[/video] I really enjoyed this video, and I know not many of you are down with anarchism, it's still a neato historical analysis. I know Libertarian Socialist Rants was at least [I]somewhat[/I] well received, so fuck it, I'm sharing it. This guy is a former "anarcho"-capitalist who went anarchist, so if you decide to check his other videos, keep that in mind.
This feels as if it's skipping A LOT of information. It's less of an historical analysis and more "here are these guys I really like and here's all the good things they did in the last 200 years and none of the context or bad things they did." When I hear "The History of Anarchism", I imagine somebody explaining the tenants of the belief system, who came up with them and why, as well as their pros and cons and how they have changed over time. Something like this (but for Anarchism instead of Capitalism): [video=youtube;dIuaW9YWqEU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIuaW9YWqEU&index=12&list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv8ez3ItKS1Ti3T8o6f7Yy[/video]
Seems a lot like the History of Japan video. Is that just me?
there's this trend of speeding up your speech in these type of videos, all it does is make me zone out half way through the video.
The history of one of the edgier movments in history [editline]10th July 2016[/editline] And it's obvious this person is trying to be cutesy like the Japan video The Japan video was funny and hilarious, this one is nor
[QUOTE=Zyler;50682775]This feels as if it's skipping A LOT of information. It's less of an historical analysis and more "here are these guys I really like and here's all the good things they did in the last 200 years and none of the context or bad things they did." When I hear "The History of Anarchism", I imagine somebody explaining the tenants of the belief system, who came up with them and why, as well as their pros and cons and how they have changed over time. Something like this (but for Anarchism instead of Capitalism): [video=youtube;dIuaW9YWqEU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIuaW9YWqEU&index=12&list=PLwxNMb28Xmpfv8ez3ItKS1Ti3T8o6f7Yy[/video][/QUOTE] iirc Adam Smith was against the idea of full blown capitalism without regulations, I wouldn't put him there with Bill Clinton
That George Orwell joke was great. Too bad that he missed a chance to mention "Homage to Catalonia".
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