So after reading some Adorno alongside a handful of critiques others have made of Jason Unruhe, the LLCO, and the Maoism-Third Worldism last night, I've figured out the real issue with the entire Turd Worldist platform: far from being scientific, it is SCIENTICISM, plain and simple. It's literally no better than the mindset of fascism, and would no doubt have identical results if put into practice.
Just like New Atheists, MTWists fetishize "logic", "reason", and the ETERNAL SCIENCE of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Lin Biaoism-Gonzaloism-Leading Lightism to the point where they override human agency and the will of the people. MTWists like Roo infamously tote around all the charts and graphs concerning wages, GDP, and such in order to deduct socialist revolution in the First World is impossible. They're also not at all concerned about the real-world consequences of their own rhetoric like: "all First World people are parasites", "white people can never be 'real' comrades because they're literally living off stolen indigenous land", "the basis of western culture is imperialism", "the people in the Twin Towers deserved to die because all First World people are fat and degenerate", "white people suck", and so on, and how all of this will undoubtedly lead to full-blown authoritarianism since it reduces the people in question to nothing more than objects. According to them, a white single mom in West Virginia who is struggling to feed her three kids by working two low-wage jobs deserves to be tagged as an enemy because she's living on stolen Cherokee land and benefiting from Third World exploitation by consuming cheap sweatshop-made goods. It's identical to how Sam Harris supports imperialist US wars in the Muslim World on the basis that "medieval Islamic barbarism" needs to be wiped out and replaced with muh logic muh atheism. (Just imagine a MTW fantasy scenario where Native American mercenaries are running around Portland scalping anyone whose skin tone is lighter than hazelnut to cries of "fuck you white colonials!".)
Even in its simplest understanding, MTW claims organizing for revolution in the First World will be impossible because it's not in the RATIONAL SELF-INTEREST of First Worlders to revolt for genuine socialism, whereas it is for Third Worlders. Right off the bat, the assumption is said people are inherently rational and will do whatever "logic" tells them to. But human psychology tells us otherwise, that most of our impulses and desires can't be shoehorned into "logic" (at least, not the kind of hard logic that you learn in Philosophy 101) and most of what drives us isn't based on what we have deducted is "logical" to do. And if logic and science really ought to be the end-all-be-all, can they explain why socialist revolutions haven't been popping up all over the Third World in decades? The only place in the world right now that's anywhere close to socialist is Rojava, a place I've never seen MTWists speak of favorably. When we look at the Third World, we see religious extremists and nationalists gaining power and influence everywhere from South America to the Middle East to East Asia. Meanwhile, something like 60% of European net exploiter youth say they would participate in a left-wing uprising against their existing governments.
