I'm not sure if this is supposed to be posted here but I'm not sure this would be welcome in c/wallstreetbets (lmao) either. It's just sad and dispiriting. Not really gonna say more about this because it's been pretty draining tbh.

Also, before someone says "well I don't think it's WRONG to talk about this, and I don't think it's praxis, and y'know I had to pay rent and spent some money on this and I just like laughing at Melvin eating shit and...." cool, I'm not talking about you, you know which people I am talking about.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      The amount of heavily upvoted leftist agitprop I've seen on the wsb sub in the past week or so begs to differ

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The thing is, that mindset is ironically the most "western leftist" thing I can think of. You're disqualifying a community of hundreds of thousands of people (at least) because they have some reactionary ideological tendencies. I know it's a stretch to compare this to a revolution, but do you think Mao's communists cared that their primary target for recruitment were illiterate peasants? It didn't matter after the revolution, because guess what - they reached out, radicalized them as best they could, and gave them the education they needed to understand communism. Now these people aren't peasants by any means, but they're not competent elites either. They have flawed ideals of capitalism, and their appreciation for it is based on myths and faulty logic. Many smart people fall into ideological pits when they've been brainwashed into thinking the alternative is evil and dangerous. And it's our responsibility to show them otherwise.