Bree A. Ullman the lawyer ([1], [2]) deleted the 2nd xeet.😂🤣
Zohar Ianovici is an Isnotrael-based “Jewish Israeli antizionist” who "want[s] Is[not]rael to be a full democracy, across all the territory it currently controls " ([3], [4]).
I don’t think it’s accurate to describe him as a full-on idealist. Many of his videos often touch upon more materialist-oriented perspectives and in some case are fully materialist. This isn’t universal though, and that’s where your point lands: he does end up defaulting to liberal idealism often. I will concede that point.
But I don’t think idealism is enough to make one a liberal. To do so means that anarchists, fascists, monarchists, and utopian socialists are liberals and at that point the word becomes basically useless as politics is reduced to a simple binary of communism and liberalism. For sure idealism is a major component of liberal analysis, and is often the sign of liberal thinking and will often lead to liberal conclusions, but that alone isn’t sufficient (at least not in my view) to classify someone as a liberal simply because it’s not unique to liberalism specifically even if they might be the most famous champions of it.
The contradiction of liberal analysis and anti-liberal positions will inevitably resolve itself either by capitulation to, or rejection of, idealism. This might not occur consciously but it can be demonstrated through one’s own actions and I don’t believe FD has resolved this contradiction in either direction yet.
Beliefs are informed by conditions, yes, but they’re also what drive actions. You don’t act on something if you don’t believe in it first. Why would you? Conditions teach but beliefs motivate. This is why workers can experience exploitation for years but never move toward pro-revolutionary sentiment because they don’t believe in revolution or the radical politics that promote & foster revolutionary ideals. I can attest to this personally as I didn’t become a socialist until five years after entering the workforce whereas there are people who’ve been working jobs with even worse conditions than any of the ones I’ve had for literal decades before I was born who are still ideologically liberal despite having it even worse than I do because they don’t believe in socialism as a viable system.
I don’t think it’s accurate to describe him as a full-on idealist. Many of his videos often touch upon more materialist-oriented perspectives and in some case are fully materialist. This isn’t universal though, and that’s where your point lands: he does end up defaulting to liberal idealism often. I will concede that point.
But I don’t think idealism is enough to make one a liberal. To do so means that anarchists, fascists, monarchists, and utopian socialists are liberals and at that point the word becomes basically useless as politics is reduced to a simple binary of communism and liberalism. For sure idealism is a major component of liberal analysis, and is often the sign of liberal thinking and will often lead to liberal conclusions, but that alone isn’t sufficient (at least not in my view) to classify someone as a liberal simply because it’s not unique to liberalism specifically even if they might be the most famous champions of it.
The contradiction of liberal analysis and anti-liberal positions will inevitably resolve itself either by capitulation to, or rejection of, idealism. This might not occur consciously but it can be demonstrated through one’s own actions and I don’t believe FD has resolved this contradiction in either direction yet.
Beliefs are informed by conditions, yes, but they’re also what drive actions. You don’t act on something if you don’t believe in it first. Why would you? Conditions teach but beliefs motivate. This is why workers can experience exploitation for years but never move toward pro-revolutionary sentiment because they don’t believe in revolution or the radical politics that promote & foster revolutionary ideals. I can attest to this personally as I didn’t become a socialist until five years after entering the workforce whereas there are people who’ve been working jobs with even worse conditions than any of the ones I’ve had for literal decades before I was born who are still ideologically liberal despite having it even worse than I do because they don’t believe in socialism as a viable system.