Of course I wouldn’t directly say that to someone who isnt on here or is not a lefty.
OK, consider that the Bad Faith audience (or at least the audience they're aiming for) isn't here and plenty of them are probably more radlib than lefty. I doubt they were expressing much sympathy for the cops, anyway.
"Congresspeople are all fascists and get the wall" makes you look like a crank to anyone who isn't already a leftist. If you're at all concerned about convincing enough people to become leftists that we have a real chance at achieving socialism, you wouldn't rip people trying to do exactly that over something as mundane as "wow that fascist mob must have been scary."
She made a big point about “I can drop the Democratic for Democratic socialist now.” Then turns around and has misplaced empathy for the very people who helped sabotage the Bernie campaign, won’t raise the minimum wage, won’t provide nationalized healthcare, aren’t going to fix infrastructure, isn’t going to house the homeless, close all military bases and end the imperialist venture.
It’s not just about making people leftist. Sure, we need to bring more and more people to the left, but the masses aren’t all going to. If you tie in why someone’s life is in misery and why their conditions are the way they are due to the ruling class gerontocracy and corporatism, they can become sympathetic. Especially as we see an increase in proletarianization of the “middle class.”
You don’t start to build class consciousness of the masses by saying “feel sorry for the people making your life hell.” You teach, educate, and explain to people what it is that capitalism does to them and who is profiting off of their labor. You can’t force it down their throats. They have to recognize it from their own experiences living under capitalism.
Not every one of your emotional responses needs or can be mediated through your ideology. Nobody lives like that, sometimes you see something happen and react to it without first analyzing the class dynamics of it
You’re right, but she’s a public figure and was involved in politics and is on a politics style podcast. If she’s a “socialist” then she should have an analysis and a critique bigger than “oh no the ruling class” especially a week after the fact.
OK, consider that the Bad Faith audience (or at least the audience they're aiming for) isn't here and plenty of them are probably more radlib than lefty. I doubt they were expressing much sympathy for the cops, anyway.
"Congresspeople are all fascists and get the wall" makes you look like a crank to anyone who isn't already a leftist. If you're at all concerned about convincing enough people to become leftists that we have a real chance at achieving socialism, you wouldn't rip people trying to do exactly that over something as mundane as "wow that fascist mob must have been scary."
She made a big point about “I can drop the Democratic for Democratic socialist now.” Then turns around and has misplaced empathy for the very people who helped sabotage the Bernie campaign, won’t raise the minimum wage, won’t provide nationalized healthcare, aren’t going to fix infrastructure, isn’t going to house the homeless, close all military bases and end the imperialist venture.
It’s not just about making people leftist. Sure, we need to bring more and more people to the left, but the masses aren’t all going to. If you tie in why someone’s life is in misery and why their conditions are the way they are due to the ruling class gerontocracy and corporatism, they can become sympathetic. Especially as we see an increase in proletarianization of the “middle class.”
You don’t start to build class consciousness of the masses by saying “feel sorry for the people making your life hell.” You teach, educate, and explain to people what it is that capitalism does to them and who is profiting off of their labor. You can’t force it down their throats. They have to recognize it from their own experiences living under capitalism.
Not every one of your emotional responses needs or can be mediated through your ideology. Nobody lives like that, sometimes you see something happen and react to it without first analyzing the class dynamics of it
You’re right, but she’s a public figure and was involved in politics and is on a politics style podcast. If she’s a “socialist” then she should have an analysis and a critique bigger than “oh no the ruling class” especially a week after the fact.