• MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    15 hours ago

    unsurprisingly communist analysis predicted this exact scenario many years ago

    Often when I listened to prominent academics giving their takes and recollecting history, I thought to myself 'god damn, they're knowledgable' - because it would take me a long time to read up, and understand the conflicts they were speaking of and be able to talk about it.

    What I hadn't realised up until recently, is that if you keep up with the news for years on these issues, you too end up with this knowledge bank. These academics didn't necessarily go back and read all the history books - they lived through them in real time, and each day learnt and applied communist perspectives in the face of propaganda.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      16 hours ago

      Similarly, the Marxists of this community repeatedly educated me but being more correct and predictive about things than everyone else until I read more theory and caught up.