I am including myself in this. Communism is an ideal we are striving towards. It is possible but we were all raised by and in capitalism and we all know it fucking sucks and is evil and gross and smelly. We all have a lot to unpack and relearn about the world, other people, history, everything just about. So when I get corrected on here or someone disagrees with me I love it. It's a chance for me to learn or educate or just reach a mutual understanding of each others opinions.
Struggle sessions are good and the best praxis this site is doing. I have learnt so much from them and I hope the continue until I actually become a communist. If people leave because of them that is tough but I think the site is improving because of them. I think people should come here with an attitude that they want to learn and engage and try and grow not just be fed entertainment. I do enjoy the memes and the bits but it's not why I keep coming back here.
Thank you for listening to my HexTalk.
I agree. I think a lot of leftists believe they become automatically good people because of their political ideology. We are the most ethically sound political ideology but just because we are, it doesn’t make us moral in an individual sense. I’ve come across some pretty hateful and toxic leftists who think they can say whatever they want because of their positions. A lot of the drama here starts because of this fact. As you said, we always have to unlearn and learn new things. Marxists need to be flexible in their thinking and it’s disappointing to see stubbornness persist.
I’m still learning a lot myself about theory and gender identities. A few of my friends came out as non binary and I want to ensure I’m still being a good friend even though there are a lot of things I still don’t understand and probably won’t ever understand. But it’s my duty as a socialist to make sure they’re protected and feel welcome.
We have to be disciplined, calm, empathetic, and healthy. Our success depends on it.
Someone can be as theoretically correct as one can be, but if they're an asshole to everyone else pulling in the same direction they're not going to get much done. It should be the easiest thing in the world to be generous with people broadly on our side (and to be generous with who is considered at least kinda-sorta "on our side"). We're going to need most of them along with tens of millions of other people who aren't currently 100% with us if we want to accomplish anything big. Driving away otherwise persuadable people is the ultimate wrecker behavior. We can't afford to tolerate it.
tbh i would have been radicalized a lot sooner if the lefties i knew online and off were just a bit nicer and not so anxious to debatebro me into the dust