Considering that it seems few have commented on it (probably not to feed the guy's ego), I thought it would be germane to talk about this influencer. I'm sure you might have heard of him in his interview with Dasha at the redscarepod, or back when he debated (together with Haz al-Din) against Keith Woods and Joel Davis on the killstream on fascism vs communism where he roundly lost.
But to summarise: Logo_Daedalus is some wannabe communist influencer on Twitter known for being a pseudo-intellectual crank who talks about labor despite being a stay-at-home dad and living off of his wife and, together with gene-denialist Chris Morlock et al., he forms what I term as the "Logo-sphere": A network of idiosyncratic pseudo-intellectuals trying to reconcile communism and TEA party politics into one big meme.
Personally, I think Logo does say some interesting things from time to time like his takes on modern music, but overall he is mid (especially with politics) or outright delusional (as with Christianity).
If I had to describe him in a single sentence, it would be "linguistically fluent, but conceptually illiterate". Everyone has this issue, but with Logo it seems more extreme given his tendency to treat every concept as a meme ripe to fit into his incoherent worldview. I used to think he is smart until he talked about something that I'm more knowledgeable than him on. Case in point, he made a whole-ass thread on how gravity is satanic (yes really, just look through his feed for "electrogravity") while electromagnetism is le divine light of God, and then mumbled about electro gravity being this new "force", ending with citing a Wikipedia article on it. For context, "electro gravity" refers to a mathematical analogy between the forces of gravity and electromagnetism, not an actual force. So Logo was clearly pulling shit out of his ass just to sound clever. I could cite more examples, like how he tries to sound clever by citing American conservative interpretations of Orwell's 1984 as gotchas despite Orwell disagreeing with it back when he was alive, or how he harps on about the US founding fathers akshually were absolute monarchists by citing some random document. But I think Logo's relationship with marxism is more of interest.
A key example would be his attempts at reconciling Christianity as it exists with communism, where he often has to sideline the more inconvenient passages (e.g., the ten commandments, slavery, etc…) and selectively interpret Christian history in order to make his case, as well as going back and forth between Jesus being some meme or an actual historical figure.
Indeed, it's all the more ironic since he regards any church as "bourgeois" despite Christian communism and liberation theology being pioneered by said bourgeois church adherents, particularly the very Catholics he hates. As indicated in his interview with Dasha his understanding of Christianity is really unserious and shows a lack of understanding, such as when he answered to the question "What is hell?" with "Look at all those homeless people".
I'll have to bring up that, before the eventual block that comes to every one of his critics that show any degree of competency, that I confronted him on his bizarre Christian communist pseudo-intellectual pursuits in an attempt to make him admit he isn't a marxist, and what'd you think? Not only did he broke the first commandment, he also went on to blubber idealistic gibberish in-between trying to assert some continuity between Christianity and communism and being Machiavellian about it. It didn't work as he'd expect:
https://xcancel.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1958609945521528853After blocking me, he went on to post schizo-cope to sooth himself:
https://xcancel.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1958992930615828526I did managed to get another of my alts blocked by his account. The reason? I made a thread stating that if John Brown and William Blake were alive they'd be pro-trans, pro-BLM, and pro-Palestine, something that Logo didn't like considering that to him both John and William aren't actual people as much as fictional characters meant to validate his ideology (in his case, conservative and puritanical Christian communists going on a crusade to fight wokeness or whatever in the name of Stalin and Mao), which brings me to my next point:
https://xcancel.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1984082176602993009I think I won that out. Well, not that it matters since his he reverted back like a chameleon:
https://xcancel.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2021700822384660679Maybe there are merits on integrating Christianity with communism both as a strategy and as an ideological project, but personally I don't see any since all of these attempts only ended up with reifying hierarchy and the church' status as arbiter of society.
This is to say: He really likes to play with dolls to own some imaginary enemy that he thought out of his head, much like Haz. Matter of fact, their ideological framework can be described as "capeshit" in that it's tied less to marxism and dialectical materialism and more with idealism and simplistic good vs evil narratives, since much like chuds they breath and analyse situations solely through memetics.
None exemplifies this than Logo's takes on baristas working for Starbucks, whom he claims aren't proletarian on the account of not being productive labor, unlike cookie manufacturing workers. And it's obvious that he sees it through a culture wars lens, using Marx like a doll to validate his views.
But here's the thing: Marx's definition of who is and isn't prole is very clear, and is based less on productivity and aesthetics than it is on the relationship between labor and capital, giving abstract examples like how a jester working for a baron wouldn't count as proletarian unlike actors that work for a film studio. Essentially: If baristas working for Starbucks aren't proletarian, neither are assemblymen at some Toyota plant since neither workers produce anything, merely put together other products to produce a finished product.
All in all, wether it's him blocking his critics and thus building up his own echo chamber, posting a load of bull at obscene rates, or just trying to sound clever by twisting others' content or recycling others' opinions as hot original takes, Logo is a good example of what happens to chuds when they come across communism with an open mind: They either integrate class analysis without letting it displace their racialism (like Eric Striker) or become total schizos (like Logo).
What do you guys think of the Logo-sphere?