This video is so well edited and energetic (but also completely nonsense in a postmodern context collapse kind of way) that it really intrigues me to try to figure out why it was made. Based on the other stuff that the channel that made it seems to have published, I think it’s probably fascist propaganda, but I really can’t figure out how it accomplishes that function. Like, what is the intended audience for this? What’s the message? Can anyone get something out of this?
I kind of want to write out like an alt text explaining what the video is for anyone who doesn’t want to click, but it’s a bit impossible to describe. It’s a minute long, rapid fire edit with lots of different soyjak/chudjak drawings in various settings, edited with some animated filters that make it all very surreal. There’s a few transitions between ‘scenes,’ with each one having a different song. The first sounds a bit like Nightcore, the second is hip hop that reminds me a big of the kind of Memphis rap in similar fascist phonk edits, then a final bit with a cover of Somebody that I Used to Know in a language I can’t identify. The last bit contains images of Jesus in some kind of astral plane.
Fascist hatred of objective meaning of things because they’d rather embrace capitalist-nihilism over socialism.
And these are the guys who love to accuse their enemies of being “post-modernists.” Every accusation a confession etc.
Marxism itself is a Modernist philosophy and something Postmodernists are against on principle. Marxism exists within a scientific method framework where it uses precise definitions and empirical data. Postmodernism rejects rules altogether and even the concept of rules. It is explicitly against Marxism because its very definition rejects the premise of creating a science of economics and societies.
Obviously, there are Postmodern leftists looking from the perspective of the Soviet Union’s failure/collapse. But since reactionaries are all dipshits who don’t know fuck about fuck, they use words without knowing their meanings.
It’s not trying to convince people, it’s more like them spitting out stuff that resonates with themselves and people who are similarly sunk into that scene trying to out-depress each other.