I'm seeing a massive leftward shift in /r/politics now that election is over and the Biden consent manufacturing astroturfers have left.

Every third comment is a solid progressive take, lots of class conciousness.

Now since this is an independent community, and we cant be banned for brigading, what do you guys think about manufacturing our own consent.

Below is an example of an informational post that can bring communist ideas to potentially thousands of people if it is made one of the top-voted comments in a post with 10k+ upvotes.

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Austerity, privatisation, financial deregulation and loss of labor union power is what is causing America's problems. Please read these texts, they offer an alternative view of society and solutions.

  1. Communist Manifesto (30 pages) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

I know you think "communism is scary" and "communism doesnt work" etc, but just read the Manifesto, just give it a try. At the very least, it gives an idea about what communists want, why they believe what they believe.

  1. Albert Einstein "Why Socialism?" - https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

  2. ABCs of socialism - https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pdf

  3. Excellent video that debunks most of what people "know" about socialist states and socialism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14&list=PLvNQvOq4XvUQ_oo_NISIXrB351pYUwyPp&index=1

If you guys think this is a good idea, ill pitch it to the mod, we can make a sticky that contains all the comments to be brigaded.

  • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    true, and if someone is receptive to the ideas, they're eventually going to read that anyway. Its far better to post stuff that doesnt completely ignore the past 150 years of history and has relevant anecdotes for the present. Like yeah, I'm a nerd, I enjoy reading about people's contemporaneous feelings on the decades leading up to WWI, and how much of a different world they thought was possible and who was able to correctly predict what'd happen. Most people don't give a single shit about that sort of thing though, and would much rather read theory that discusses Bezos, the 2008 economic crash, the gig economy, and other relevant stuff to them, rather thoughts on if the new unified germanic empire has more revolutionary potential than prussia.