That's right, the praxis thread is back, y'all!

Educated some friends? Shoveled a neighbor's driveway? Read theory? Helped a baby leftist friend dunk on the libs in an argument? Did volunteer work? Lets hear about it! Maybe it'll inspire others to get involved too! :)

  • AKPARTi [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Oh, I just posted this in c/marxism but this thread seems like a better fit:

    A year ago I had the opportunity to give a 30 minute presentation on something of my choice to my housemates (a couple dozen people). I decided to do a brief explanation of Marx’s view of capitalism. Mostly I just ran through Capital but I also talked about how Marx’s observations are all still true, his predictions have been proved right, and his theories are still relevant today. Also a bit on how trying to solve the problem of automation without Marxism is a fools errand. It was pretty dense and boring, but today someone who was there told me that my mini-lecture convinced her to read a bunch of theory and she’s a Marxist now. So it had an effect on one person at least.

    • comrade_24 [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I wish someone had given me a somewhat formal explanation of Marxism. The only real communist I had heard about was Stalin, but he was the evil dictator, of course.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Marx was also wrong because he didn't predict that un-stoppable climate change would lead to the extinction of humanity but he was just some drunk in the 1860s, not a prophet of god, so I'd say he did okay.

        • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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          4 years ago

          No, see, "product of their time" reasoning only applies to people I agree with like our slave-owning founding fathers, not filthy reds!