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Because elites means Jews to the people who say this. It's right wing assholes getting gullible people on their side
The antiwork mods have single handedly created a red brown alliance just by pissing everyone off.. honestly it’s impressive
What red-brown alliance? Literally nobody in any of the communist parties that actually matters (not terminally online because they can actually organize something as basic as a food and literature drive. Pretty sad standard but gotta start somewhere.) Even registered this happening.
This is sectarian slander to even joke about.
Took absolutely no time to go from "racism doesn't exist its only made to divide the worker" into this. Anti-idpol wreckers in full action.
Communists drop nazis into the pit, they don't side with them.
...look, if we're really serious about building communism, that means outreach to conservatives. A lot of them already have a more thorough critic of capital's symptoms than some liberals, but they grew up in an environment that keeps them from recognizing the root cause. Of course, not everyone can be convinced. There will be lost causes. People that aren't worth the effort and probably don't deserve it in the first place. But I guarantee there are potential comrades who - at the moment - identify with Republicans. People who vote like their parents, their communities, their churches. People who recognize the system is not looking out for them. People who interact with politics like it's a sports tournament. In fact, I think there are probably more potential comrades than there are lost causes -- because I genuinely think most people are, in their hearts, forgiving and charitable and good. Will it take work and time and patience? Yes, anything that matters does.
I'm not saying go out and hug a skinhead or hand your landlord Das Kapital. Just don't be outright dismissive at the possibility of on-boarding from Republican voters.
Handing your landlord a copy of Mao's little red book would be kinda funny ngl
It would probably get you shot by the cops coming to evict you, but up until that point it's hilarious
Totally. To the extent that we need to win over conservatives around us in our lives, yes absolutely. But in a public anonymous online forum that isn’t suited to a thoughtful and targeted approach? You might be able to make some headway but it’ll probably take an enormous amount of time and effort. And that’s in a subr*ddit that’s not openly hostile to your ideas
i agree with what you're saying in principle, but fuck that shitty website to be tbh there's not a good reason to go on there
the phrase "work reform" sounds like it was focus tested by a think tank and whoever's paying them didn't get their money's worth.
i'm sure it'll start showing up in Dem politician speeches within a year.
be very skeptical when the graveyard of social movements wants to work with you
^lol my brain can longer tell the difference between the symbols of the major bourgeois parties
I have tried to engage with some of the self-identified libertarians and conservatives.
One, I talked to a bit about the areas where we have common interest, and also how contrary to what he said initially that things like queer issues are absolutely relevant to labor issues, and he agreed with me.
Another, I talked to about how a good portion of the things they say that people call them a Trump supporter for -- that our government is corrupt and out of touch and not worth saving, and that the CIA and FBI are tools of tyranny -- actually gives him a lot of common ground with communists, and that the other points he brought up (mostly financial policy issues) are actually very minor issues compared to the others he talked about. Then he went on a bizarre incel rant, saying that because girls value money over looks that he was fully against anything that would involve taking the money he has saved up as part of "courting" some poor woman.
I don't know what to think. Should we make state-provided girlfriends part of the platform?
We should make a form to apply for one and just shoot anyone who fills it out
first one can be worked on, the second needs a LOT of work but is prob not worth it
First one is kind of why I'm interested in seeing this develop. If the conservatives drawn to the sub are the textbook examples of false consciousness that I've seen, then they can be pipelined. As long as they can keep a handle on bigotry and keep a consistent message, it might be a net benefit, or at least better than the "any mention of lenin in any context other than calling him a redfash tankie is bannable" of antiwork.
Same as with liberals:
Do they agree with you on anything except one or two extremely propagandized wedge issues? Then you can probably work on them overcoming these one or two cases of brainworms and turn them into a comrade.
Do they agree with you on one or two issues that directly benefit them and are otherwise fully indoctrinated, committed status quo supporters? Then don't waste your time with them.
"I just got a .0025% raise, we did it folks, shut the sub down!" :so-true:
Protestant work ethic, transmuted into hustle culture, now applied toward revolutionary vigor
It will never happen, but it would be incredibly funny of the Republicans turned into a genuine workers' party and allied with the radical left to overthrow capitalism.
The prediction that the Republicans will swerve to becoming a workers' party for specifically white workers has been the supposed impending doom for decades now. Hasn't happened yet and I doubt it will
Because they can just continue dog whistling without actually doing anything. Why buy the cow, etc
In addition, the demographic that they're courting isn't blue collar white people, it's rich suburbanite psychos who play-pretend to be working class.
i could see them trying to do it if class consciousness were becoming widespread, but in the US even our class war is just culture war.
that would require effort and not making the maximum amount of money though
Well, there's a realistic chance they'll call themselves a workers' party at some point in the not so distant future. In the same way the NSDAP called itself a workers' party.
Maybe if they get really into their Irish heritage? :connolly-shining:
Like how could you not know that a new sub would be taken over by libs and alt righters instantly. Its amazing how clueless people in that sub are.
if you pasted a communist flag over gili's face in the last panel, it'd be a good meme
