There will be no vegan revolution: veganism is not "class war".
01 May 2017 [link youtube]
Here's the link to the full-length, 35 minute video, "Against Violence in Political Praxis": https://youtu.be/pB4LXyL80Ds
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when I'm completely exhausted no makeup no intro no moto Real Talk violence and non-violence in theory and in practice remain profoundly important fundamental issues for vegans to be able to get to grips with and again why is that it's not just because violence is a means to an end but violence sheeps the end sheeps the objective so profoundly of what you're trying to do that it pollutes or it distorts all of the stages leading up to that so the Green Party are using the same example when I was there they were not even thinking about having a magazine that talked about science so you know like science news new scientific stuff in relation to ecology even though is so obvious like if you're doing fundraising you want people to donate money to you because you're an ecological movement the type of people who donate money they will really value a magazine that comes at every three months telling you about recent events you know within Canada but recent scientific discoveries recent research related to ecology related to pollution in some River or that's what those people want to read about but that was a shockingly new idea the shockingly original idea to people inside the Green Party when I presented them not because they're stupid oh no some of them are stupid but they do not think in those terms at all because the paradigm of violent revolution the paradigm that outcome thinking in those terms means they're not thinking about the really constructive methods of how to build a constituency of how to build an effective movement there is just no reason why preaching a transition to electrical cars would result in the pool rising up that way even if the poor or oppressed in some countries the poor really are oppressed still today in 2016 in some countries the peasants are oppressed the factory workers are pressed we can say yes that's the truth however if they're going to rise up maybe they're going to rise up violently to demand more money to demand a No that our healthcare maybe there's something they're going to rise up for but it's not going to be ecology it's not going to be a vegan diet it's not going to be animal rights you're kidding yourself and you're really making a kind of phony carbon copy of the hype for communist revolutions which today I feel is is fully 200 years at a date this is an echo of [ __ ] made up about the French Revolution this kind of irrelevant radicalism totally counterproductive radicalism that can't can't help you with ecology can't help you with political organization can't help you with any other type of community organizations of the talking about and and it's a way of thinking about social change that because it is rooted in violence and its ultimate ultimate objectives or violence and it's means or balance it never thinks through the type of examples you guys have heard me talk about ten times in this channel what about cigarette smoking and house cigarette smoking is change in society what about social organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving really effective non party forms of activism when I first started talking about cigarette smoking and government attempts to discourage nicotine and social activist movements in relation to nicotine and alcohol Mothers Against Drunk Driving cigarette smoking when I started talking about that on YouTube many vegans written to me and said well that's a shockingly original idea they never thought of those comparisons why again not because they're stupid although stupidity is real many of the people involved are stupid they had never thought of those things because the paradigm of violence this objective these methods so distort the discourse so direct your attention away from really salient considerations of effective activism of how do we organize the movement what are our methods what are our means what are outcomes [Music]
when I'm completely exhausted no makeup no intro no moto Real Talk violence and non-violence in theory and in practice remain profoundly important fundamental issues for vegans to be able to get to grips with and again why is that it's not just because violence is a means to an end but violence sheeps the end sheeps the objective so profoundly of what you're trying to do that it pollutes or it distorts all of the stages leading up to that so the Green Party are using the same example when I was there they were not even thinking about having a magazine that talked about science so you know like science news new scientific stuff in relation to ecology even though is so obvious like if you're doing fundraising you want people to donate money to you because you're an ecological movement the type of people who donate money they will really value a magazine that comes at every three months telling you about recent events you know within Canada but recent scientific discoveries recent research related to ecology related to pollution in some River or that's what those people want to read about but that was a shockingly new idea the shockingly original idea to people inside the Green Party when I presented them not because they're stupid oh no some of them are stupid but they do not think in those terms at all because the paradigm of violent revolution the paradigm that outcome thinking in those terms means they're not thinking about the really constructive methods of how to build a constituency of how to build an effective movement there is just no reason why preaching a transition to electrical cars would result in the pool rising up that way even if the poor or oppressed in some countries the poor really are oppressed still today in 2016 in some countries the peasants are oppressed the factory workers are pressed we can say yes that's the truth however if they're going to rise up maybe they're going to rise up violently to demand more money to demand a No that our healthcare maybe there's something they're going to rise up for but it's not going to be ecology it's not going to be a vegan diet it's not going to be animal rights you're kidding yourself and you're really making a kind of phony carbon copy of the hype for communist revolutions which today I feel is is fully 200 years at a date this is an echo of [ __ ] made up about the French Revolution this kind of irrelevant radicalism totally counterproductive radicalism that can't can't help you with ecology can't help you with political organization can't help you with any other type of community organizations of the talking about and and it's a way of thinking about social change that because it is rooted in violence and its ultimate ultimate objectives or violence and it's means or balance it never thinks through the type of examples you guys have heard me talk about ten times in this channel what about cigarette smoking and house cigarette smoking is change in society what about social organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving really effective non party forms of activism when I first started talking about cigarette smoking and government attempts to discourage nicotine and social activist movements in relation to nicotine and alcohol Mothers Against Drunk Driving cigarette smoking when I started talking about that on YouTube many vegans written to me and said well that's a shockingly original idea they never thought of those comparisons why again not because they're stupid although stupidity is real many of the people involved are stupid they had never thought of those things because the paradigm of violence this objective these methods so distort the discourse so direct your attention away from really salient considerations of effective activism of how do we organize the movement what are our methods what are our means what are outcomes [Music]