Memes are how ideas are normalised now, like it or not. Communities like /r/historymemes have done more to damage communists than anything else in the last 30 years. But by the same token, r/cth and subsequent spaces that became its children like genzedong and hexbear have created tens of thousands of new communists.
Everyone here says only material conditions convert someone to communism but the truth is that material conditions only create the material basis for someone to be receptive to communism. Something still has to reach them.
The online space has significantly more capability to reach and educate people than any other space. Converting people from the online space into offline contributions is a step the movement hasn't mastered yet, but it will get better at it.
Yes.
Memes are how ideas are normalised now, like it or not. Communities like /r/historymemes have done more to damage communists than anything else in the last 30 years. But by the same token, r/cth and subsequent spaces that became its children like genzedong and hexbear have created tens of thousands of new communists.
Everyone here says only material conditions convert someone to communism but the truth is that material conditions only create the material basis for someone to be receptive to communism. Something still has to reach them.
The online space has significantly more capability to reach and educate people than any other space. Converting people from the online space into offline contributions is a step the movement hasn't mastered yet, but it will get better at it.
surprisingly enough, r/philosophymemes is a very marxist sub that dunks on liberals a lot