Second Thought Socialism

Second Thought Socialism is an ideology based on YouTuber JT Chapman and his channel Second Thought, that even his first video is about Mother Teresa, he still only started making political videos from 2020 with the video "Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response". Since then most of his videos are in support of Marxism-Leninism, opposition to  multi-party liberal representative “democracy”, and advocates for a socialist wordwide revolution against  capitalism and  imperialism. It is implied in multiple videos that he hopes for a transition to a stateless, classless, moneyless society where the means of production is owned by the workers

Beliefs

 * Anti-US Government and Anti-Nationalism: His Criticism for the American Government is evident in his videos that criticize politics, police, way of working, economy, education, health, responses to covid among countless others. Even so, his Criticism for the American Government is even more evident in his video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization", in which he shows himself to be a strong opponent of American interventionism., also accusing them of committing various tortures. [[File:AntiNation.png]] Anti-nationalism and anti-chauvinism are evident in the video "America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline", in which he states that pride in his country could frustrated with the perspective of other countries, turning patriotism into nationalism, which would mostly lead to bitterness and distrust, then radicalizing itself to fascism.


 * Support for “authoritarian” regimes: He is a supporter of [[File:MaoHair.png]] Mao Zedong, in which he placed Maoist propaganda in the thumb of the video "The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism", also following [[File:Tankie.png]] tankies and [[File:Juche.png]] pro-North Korea twitter accounts, as well as being strongly pro-Cuba and pro-Castro, in which in the video "The Truth About The Cuba Protests" he opposes [[File:Anticommunism.png]] anti-communist protests and American imperialism. He is also in favor of Vietnam in the Vietnam War and a strong opponent of the banana republics. He perceives [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] Xi’s [[File:Cball-China.png]] China, [[File:Castro.png]] Castroist Cuba, and Modern day [[File:Hochi.png]] Vietnam as model societies and examples of actually existing socialism that everyone should take example of.


 * Anti-capitalism and Anti-neoliberalism: He made numerous videos against capitalism and neoliberalism, such as how these systems would discourage innovation, would bring back slave labor, would encourage drug consumption, environmental destruction, would be responsible for diseases and pandemic like Covid-19, also opposing Democrats and Republicans, that would have monetized the pandemic among countless others. YOU ARE SOCIALIST


 * Anti-Moderatism: In his video "How "Moderates" Serve The Right", he claims that moderates are actually right wing and that many centrist arguments do not make sense because they are extremely opposed to the left and the right, such as “we need a mixture of socialism and capitalism”


 * Supporting Workers' Cooperatives: In his video "Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace" he believes that worker cooperatives would give a more just, egalitarian and humane system than oppressive capitalism, providing more democratic working conditions with collective enterprises that would act as non-profit organizations.


 * "Supposed Anarchism:" W.I.P

Personality and Behavior
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Friends

 * [[File:Mao.png]] - Mao did nothing wrong!
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Castroism and [[File:Hochi.png]] - Cuba and Vietnam are shining examples of actually existing socialism and anyone who disagrees is on the CIA pay-roll.
 * [[File:Ancom.png]] - A stateless, moneyless society is indeed the end goal.
 * [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] Xi Jinping Thought - Bringing back socialism to China!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Demsocstar.png]] - Once I was you but electoral doesn't work and the system is rigged against us!

Enemies

 * [[File:Necon.png]] - Death to western imperialism!
 * [[File:Fash.png]] - Capitalism in decay!
 * [[File:Nation.png]] - You're the pipeline to the guy above!
 * [[File:Consocf.png]] - Fake leftist!
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] - You only exist to preserve capitalism and imperialism!