Why should I have to hide my beliefs? I understand the concept of not making everything political, but everything that effects us is political. Or at least there is a political root cause of the situation/dilemma/what have you. If someone says something obviously wrong based on any sort of capitalist critique or dialectic material reason, then I should absolutely be able to shut them down and say why they are wrong. Regardless of if it is racist, classist, etc, they should be stopped and told otherwise, especially if in front of others. (If outnumbered obviously be cautious).
I’m tired of feeling not able to speak up about the oppression and fear and imperialism and colonialism and police state and the stupid libs and republicans and whatever. I don’t see any reason to hide if these asshole don’t have to.
The only reason to hide your politics is in situations where not doing so puts you in unnecessary danger. Like at work while the boss is within earshot, for example.
I think the challenges are working through the powerful emotions that caused many of us to become communists in the first place, and becoming flexible enough to turn Marxist terminology on or off. No one is really going to care if you say things like, “I think it’s time that bosses and politicians step aside so that working people can control things for once” in a neutral or cheerful tone of voice.
Maybe this sounds too cucked, but I’ve found it easier to be forthright about my communism in casual conversations as I’ve integrated it more fully into myself, rather than allowing it to be a dumping ground for anger and frustration.
Also, getting involved with a real-life organization should help you be more vocal.
I live in eastern Washington, I think I'm gonna keep things to myself a bit lol
Eastern WA mfers are straight up homicidal. I've lived all over the state and I straight up felt like I could get McVeigh'd at any moment in Eastern WA. Like even in the bumfuck republican areas on the Olympic Peninsula felt more sane than the conservative areas on the East side. What are they putting in the water over there
I've lived here my entire life. Most people are good but the bad ones are real bad. When the BLM protests were at their peak a couple of militias organized and hung out with the cops to "patrol and protect local businesses" I can see several Trump flags from my window rn. And even with all that I saw a La Riva sign here.
Totally get it if you don't feel like sharing but where in Eastern Washington were you?
Oh yeah besides the wackos Eastern WA is really nice. I went to HS and college in one of the bigger cities, and I met a lot of great people. Oh also I see you mentioned a TPUSA guy at your college, which is funny since there was also a bunch of TPUSA guys at my community college as well. They would put up little signs that said stuff like "Socialism Sucks!!!" outside of the library lmao
Hmm I wonder if we possibly went to the same place but I don't want to be explicit about it, were you in northeast wa?
lmao yeah I was talking to a TPUSA guy at a local community college and in our short conversation I was told to read Evola and taught all these cool things about IQ and the bell curve and how we're all inferior to Nordic people and Ashkenazi Jews and Brahmins and then he asked if I was russian/ukrainian bc I looked a bit like it (I'm not at all lmao) and usually I keep it pretty under wraps but this dude was a twig and at the time I was the most in shape I've ever been (I'd been swimming 2 hours/day and lifting 2 hours/day) so i felt comfortable going yeah I disagree that's all BS and he asked if I was a liberal and I said no I'm a Marxist Leninist, the look on his face was pretty priceless
I miss lifting so much :( I've lost so much muscle mass bc of covid
I've been an "out" communist with my close friends and family for a while now. It's actually been really cool, people who weren't political before now come to me to ask about Marxism and for help understanding the incomprehensible mess of contradictions and propaganda in the corporate media. Everyone is scared and angry and can't make sense of any of this shit, so I think you'll find many people more receptive than you'd expect.
The more of us that go mask off, the easier it'll be for the rest of us to.
I literally yell about communism to everyone I know lol. But I am not in chudland
people you can tell:
- your friends and family that you trust
- people who can't identify you
people who will make your life hell if you tell them:
- your boss
- chuds
- feds
- etc.
It's easy to be out if you don't say the S word or C word (socialism/communism). Just say stuff like you think everyone should have access to housing and food and healthcare, even if they choose not to work. Say that you don't think businesses should be able to exploit worker by underpaying them. Telling them you don't trust the "free market" to be ethical in these matters and you'd prefer the government step in in a big way. 95% of people wouldn't recognize this as communism or socialism anyway because they're idiots.
sure, just pick and choose which people you want to think you're schizophrenic
