Nah. A small percentage of people are radicalizing, a much larger percentage of people are realizing the absurdity of the status quo. They might not see the alternatives yet, but they at least see the failure of business as usual. It's our job to be the educators in increasingly fertile ground.

Whom amongst us in the west was born a principled communist? It was material conditions that gave us the lived experience necessary to become amenable to these ideas, and then sources of education to give us the understanding. For some of us that was independent study and research. For others, someone patient and better read than ourselves helped guide our learning. I'd argue the second is far more effective for the general population than the first, and the more Cadre leftists have the greater we can capitalize on the increasingly harsh material conditions. Between climate disasters, total ineffectual democratic governance, and worsening living conditions, a huge percentage of people are at the very least REACHABLE for the first time in decades. It's on us as revolutionaries to reach them.