Where they spend 5 minutes talking about the political news. Than spend an hour plus dissecting some shit movie/show no one cares about.

    • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Eh, he can be a little too left-com for me, but he's certainly well informed historically, I just feel like he's a bit too nihilistic about the capabilities of proletarian movements of today

      • Papanurgel [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        His nihlism is becuase he studies history. I have the same problem. You end up realizing that human society never corrects before disasters even if they know it's coming.

        • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Plenty of people study history and don't become so nihilistic so I don't think it's just that. I find it hard to imagine Christman in an organiser context, which reminds me of a lot of my academic left-comm type friends who are super well read but just intractably cynical.

          • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Totally agree. Its the form of Marxism you'll find in academies and universities, one detoothed of real power.

            • jabrd [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              To be fair academics are innately detoothed of power because of their class position

              • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                We shouldn't forget that a lot of the real work in Universities isn't done just by the tenured professors. Sure, they are the ones that set the overall class position of the university's teachings and the direction of research (and get all the glory), but the actual ground work of propagating that ideology to the student body and out to the world is through exploited graduate students and forever-associate professorships, who are only usually boosted to tenure if they are willing to continue the work and ideology of the currently tenured. Which is why organizing university labor is definitely something that should be a goal for any movement looking to capture an ideological foothold

        • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yes, but out of these disasters people still remain, and these people are left to pick up the pieces or start anew. Whether or not there will even be a humanity to progress through 100 years from now is debatable but also irrelevant. If we're not organizing and treating situations like there's even a chance for rebuilding then we're only cementing our doom and forever subjugation. This applies even in the face of climate disaster and the fascist scramble that resulted from it. Any voice telling everyone that its already doomed is essentially confirming the suspicions of reactionary christians who are merely awaiting rapture. The entire point of our movement is getting people to realize that we need to act, and be an active and cooperative people if we have any chance of making it through the next couple centuries. Saying we're fucked now is just giving up. Yes, its scary and looks very bleak, but what good is defeatism of the very movements we support?