Also why it's very hard to communicate the basic ideas of leftism to people when they expect everything to be easily digestible with the ideas they already have. It's not hard to turn someone who doesn't care about politics into a Fascist, you just get them angry about something and tell them that the solution is a strong leader and a tight community that enforces what is righteous and correct. Turning the same person into a socialist takes much more effort because you have to deconstruct their current idea of why the world works the way it does.
narp. I am squarely in the anti-intellectual camp of leftist theory. I don't got to know about alien nations and the beans of production to realize my boss is underpaying me. Everyone is workin' to hard.
Also why it's very hard to communicate the basic ideas of leftism to people when they expect everything to be easily digestible with the ideas they already have. It's not hard to turn someone who doesn't care about politics into a Fascist, you just get them angry about something and tell them that the solution is a strong leader and a tight community that enforces what is righteous and correct. Turning the same person into a socialist takes much more effort because you have to deconstruct their current idea of why the world works the way it does.
narp. I am squarely in the anti-intellectual camp of leftist theory. I don't got to know about alien nations and the beans of production to realize my boss is underpaying me. Everyone is workin' to hard.
:fidel-salute-big: I just think the thinky dudes are neat!
Righties can't think