I thought I would screenshot Russell Brand’s YouTube Channel description – and am happy to confirm that it more or less conforms to my previous critique of his superficial, inverted and idealistic attitudes toward life. Russell Brand is a man who agreed to have himself photographed as ‘Che Guevara’ – that great Revolutionary man who died for his Marx-Leninist beliefs – whilst simultaneously dedicating a chapter in one of his books explaining ‘why’ he is NOT a ‘Marxist’, and why his fans should relax and stop worrying that he might hold some heartfelt left-wing viewpoints! We know from the quite natural right-wing comments of his father that the fruit has not fallen far from the tree.
The interesting point is that NONE of the three cultural constructs he highlights are DEAD. Religion is the content he discusses the most and this unfounded grasp of reality has come to take an ever-central theme in his life. Capitalism certainly is not dead for Brand – as it has made him a very wealthy man and continues to enrich his existence! Scientific Socialism is not dead for China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos or Vietnam – and continues to be a very strong driving force for many political movements (and millions of individuals) around the world! Given that all three of Russell Brand’s prophetic statements are WRONG – why is he making these statements?
The simple answer is that he is attempting to sustain his ‘income’ and ‘status’ – those two stout pillars of predatory capitalism! Not bad for a socio-economic ideology (‘capitalism’) Brand claims ‘nolonger exists!’ What he is putting-out as social media data is probably partly scripted for him by those he pays to continuously support and empower his lifestyle. This is why it is difficult to discern where the contrived rhetoric of his advisors comes to an end – and the rambling of Brand begins. This is what Brand means when he demonises and denigrates the above three ideologies:
1) Religion – ‘How I feel inside’ – lucrative to pursue (he makes ample usage of Eastern religious symbolism – but possesses no genuine understanding or knowledge of these paths).
2) Capitalism – ‘How I feel inside’ – lucrative to pursue (he is continuously rewarded for his superficial zany individualism).
3) Communism – ‘How I feel inside’ – not lucrative to pursue (Brand is viewed as a typical example of a ‘White’ bourgeois ‘idiot’ propelled into the limelight of privilege through income for no genuine reason that benefits society – by such Socialist countries as Cuba, North Korea and China, etc).
Of course, his sexual behaviour is not unique to him, or even to men and women. Wealth, adulation and privilege only adds to this situation. Every so often – the hypocritical (Bourgeois) media manufacture or pursue a self-righteous drive to build revenue through intensified public interest (basic capitalist economics). A media star badly behaving is the best and most lucrative type of ‘copy’. The strong ‘witch-hunt’ element to this media attack on Russell Brand does not placate or justify Brand’s behaviour – anymore than it justifies the generally poor and deceptive behaviour of the mainstream press. Should Brand end up in prison – his social media presence will vanish. The above should act as an archive to Russell Brand’s duplicity and explain how he did attempt to appeal to the left – before firmly rejecting it for his own version of inverted thinking and anti-intellectualism.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 