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Be told your whole life that Marxism = bad
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Develop enough class consciousness to realize that businesses want to form a two-class system where their owners are in control and the workers are on the bottom
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Not have a term for this thing you realized, but know it's bad
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This is bad, and Marxism is bad, so this must be that Marxism I've been hearing about
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[Your excellent post here.]
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My theory:
- The American discourse has deteriorated to the point where "middle class" now means "has a job" to most people.
- If you think "Everyone was poor and miserable in the USSR, which was a dictatorship", then I guess you think there was only rulers and lower class workers
From polling more than 70% of Americans believe they're middle class (I got this from Citations Needed). So I believe this is pretty much accurate.
The problem with the USSR was they killed all the job creators, and then there weren't any jobs any more!
That's actually the first step towards understanding what's going on in the OP.
ok gotta ask about those dick n balls, cause those tweets are straight up gibberish
We're on the scene, everyone keep your dick and balls where I can't see them
They think they working class is the poors and they are too proud to think of themselves that way.
Maybe this person read (hearsay summaries of) the critiques of capitalism in Kapital and thought the description of capitalism "under ideal circumstances" was what Marx was saying what should happen under communism.
I don't think either of those people has ever been in the same room as a copy of Capital.
