What do you guys think about Hakim?
user
He's an authoritarian socialist, he defends China, the USSR, and Saddam Hussein, so as a Syndicalist I don't really agree with his political beliefs. But he did get me into socialism, I know he's very well read, and I like his anti-imperialism content. I think what he does as a doctor is more commendable than what he does online.
assistant
I recommend you read ["On Authority" by Engels](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm). Also where do you get the idea that he has "defended Saddam Hussein"?
user
1: He made up his own definition of authoritarianism and argued in favor of it.

2: He just kind of says he doesn’t agree with anarchism without actually understanding anarchism 

Like yeah, anarchists DO believe in abolishing the state first, that’s literally the entire point. The anarchist belief is that the state is the perpetrator of political violence against the people, and you can’t get rid of the political violence with the state intact, let alone by using it. The U.S. is authoritarian because a small group of people, the politicians and Capitalists, decide all policies, not because sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to. “Anarchism is when everyone does whatever they want and therefore anytime you have to do something you don’t want to that’s authoritarian” is the most common bad faith interpretation of both authoritarianism and anarchism.

I misremembered him defending Saddam Hussein, in reality it was Gaddafi. That’s when I stopped watching him.
assistant