This criticism is 100% valid and applies to a large chunk of people on this website.
There is a sizable contingent of online leftists to whom losing and misery are essential parts of their politics, so when someone is not miserable or accomplishes something they must, by definition, be a sellout. Then those online clowns invent a reality to fit the conclusion. That's how you get smooth-brained takes like "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala." Who the fuck cares?
I mean I don't think "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala" is wrong, it's just not relevant. AOC has never claimed to be a serious threat to capitalism as a system, and a lot of people seem to project whatever their views are onto her like some kind of messianic savior. She is what she is. She won't bring the revolution, never promised to, and without her being beholden to a mass socialist party with the power of recall and the whip she'll never doing anything of note to help this end.
This criticism is 100% valid and applies to a large chunk of people on this website.
There is a sizable contingent of online leftists to whom losing and misery are essential parts of their politics, so when someone is not miserable or accomplishes something they must, by definition, be a sellout. Then those online clowns invent a reality to fit the conclusion. That's how you get smooth-brained takes like "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala." Who the fuck cares?
I mean I don't think "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala" is wrong, it's just not relevant. AOC has never claimed to be a serious threat to capitalism as a system, and a lot of people seem to project whatever their views are onto her like some kind of messianic savior. She is what she is. She won't bring the revolution, never promised to, and without her being beholden to a mass socialist party with the power of recall and the whip she'll never doing anything of note to help this end.