I am not because I live in a pretty conservative area. So I try to get some leftist points through to coworkers without opening myself up to the ridicule of just being a “commy degenerate” in their eyes. So I think I can get through to them better without outting myself as a Marxist.

  • purr [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    no because i dont believe in telling my co workers anything as a self preservationist measure but im sure they can tell. (i dont tell anyone anything because im aware that im a black young woman who has experienced racism and misgony in other workplaces, often under the guise of inappropriate friendship so ive learned to be tight lipped about my personal business. but im still friendly and like, will give a nice anecdote about my weekend. we're just not gonna talk about the chauvin verdict because no matter how liberal the workplace, or how cool the boss seems, its downright near impossible to have an appropriate genuine relationship with anyone giving you a paycheck and telling you what to do)

    as someone who does organizing work in a non socialist/communist/anarchist non profit I definitely see the benefit of being vocal about ones lefter political views and dont mind when other coworkers talk about it with me, but ive also seen a lot of career organizers who work for capitalist organizations (who are usually white grew up wealthy gentrifiers) insert their personal politics sometimes in black/brown poor organizing spaces meant to center their specific issues, and thats totally cool but alot of the times its totally cringe to be a white person who grew up in an owned home quoting mao to a small immigrant landlord actually from the community so eh

    some people offer up their ideologies to find community but honestly in my experience its seemed to be brought up to either LARP or signal to a coworker that youre especially down (which could be helpful), but i try to take it a little slower with people, much more coworkers, unless i genuinely think they would want to organize with me, but at that point ive probably regarded them as a friend already