Jordan Peterson's "free speech" Thinkspot is a subscription-based private club/cult platform (ignoring abundant alternatives like SaidIt, Mastodon, Minds, Steemit, etc.) cloistered away from criticisms and challenges. Cowardly raising his rates he escaped a socialism debate with prof Richard Wolff.

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[–]critias 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He probably doesn't want a gongshow like these open platforms/publishers. People with very limited education and big mouths.

"thinkSPOT is an offsite meeting space for your planning sessions, continuing education classes, seminars, lunch and learns, and much more."

So it's not. It's for a bunch of private and public things. And yes he's trying to make money but who cares?

Why should he debate Richard Wolff and what does that have to do with his own private platform?

Richard Wolff is a tool. Just another, "that wasn't real communism" derper. He's the result of turning our backs on education of history and culture towards social manipulation and integration. He's what we get when high education has been corrupted and infiltrated towards corrupting the state as a whole. He's a fanatic. He's got a grudge. He believes that capitalism is slavery but he's pro-Marxist which states from everyone according to his abilities, to everyone according to their needs. Which is redistribution of wealth which is slavery verbatim. He completely dismisses the mass-death of communism.

As Peterson said, "They don't like the poor, they just hate the rich."

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He doesn't even need to "debate" Wolff, but merely have a civilized conversation. Wolff is an expert on Marxism where as Peterson has a lot of shit to say about Marxism and most of it is utterly wrong - so Peterson in this regard, and many many others, is full of utter shit and spouting nonsense propaganda.

Wolff is very well aware of all the problems of the variant communisms. "Social manipulation and integration" and "corruption and infiltration" are hardly exclusive to the left or Marxists. They are aspects of Big Gov and if you knew much about Wolff, you'd know he's pushing for the 3rd Marxist ideal (as I do), worker coops as a solution for individuals and as an alternative to battle against the corporatocracy.

Big Gov is slavery regardless of whether you are a capitalist forced to pay taxes or a communist forced to pay taxes. Same shit with just a different organization at the top. If you aren't a multi-millionaire then you have absolutely nothing to worry about regarding "redistribution". Further, when he discusses redistribution, he's not talking about taking away wealth so much as simply addressing the means of production, starting with fair wages rather than exploitative.

You clearly don't understand Wolff nor Marxism either.

If Peterson's intellectual explorations are not open to criticism they cease to be legitimate.