That only works on the assumption that you support capitalism because your class interests allign with it. If you do, and start out a progressive lib, who cheers for LGBT+ liberation etc., but start aging, and working (thus have way less time to educate yourself on future struggles etc.), you might find yourself speechless when a future social movement starts, say in support of disabled people's rights and start becoming a reactionary.
If you're a communist in the first place, I feel like there is less of a danger of becoming a right winger like the libs say, but doomerism might eventually get you to accept grudgingly social democracy, or maybe have the "I don't understand the social struggle anymore" make you a KKE boomer or something.
in Russia the Russian Communist Party is basically the just the pensioner party now. They can mobilize huge numbers of boomers whenever Putin tries to cut social security, but they know they aren't launching a second revolution anytime soon. They still call themselves communists though, but the conditions just aren't right.
That's because the Party went socdem in the mid 80s (Perestroika anyone?) and has not advocated for socialist economics (iirc they support a "mixed economy") since the same era
I think it's less culture war or "progressive" issues and much more rooted in being self-serving. If you're young, which generally tends to mean little wealth, even your selfish interests align with more leftist positions.
Once the mony starts rolling in though, your self interest changes though. I mean, at least under the premise of all the usual brainworms. They're the same people, just different wealth.
That only works on the assumption that you support capitalism because your class interests allign with it. If you do, and start out a progressive lib, who cheers for LGBT+ liberation etc., but start aging, and working (thus have way less time to educate yourself on future struggles etc.), you might find yourself speechless when a future social movement starts, say in support of disabled people's rights and start becoming a reactionary.
If you're a communist in the first place, I feel like there is less of a danger of becoming a right winger like the libs say, but doomerism might eventually get you to accept grudgingly social democracy, or maybe have the "I don't understand the social struggle anymore" make you a KKE boomer or something.
in Russia the Russian Communist Party is basically the just the pensioner party now. They can mobilize huge numbers of boomers whenever Putin tries to cut social security, but they know they aren't launching a second revolution anytime soon. They still call themselves communists though, but the conditions just aren't right.
That's because the Party went socdem in the mid 80s (Perestroika anyone?) and has not advocated for socialist economics (iirc they support a "mixed economy") since the same era
I think it's less culture war or "progressive" issues and much more rooted in being self-serving. If you're young, which generally tends to mean little wealth, even your selfish interests align with more leftist positions.
Once the mony starts rolling in though, your self interest changes though. I mean, at least under the premise of all the usual brainworms. They're the same people, just different wealth.