April 13, 2022 By Stephen Gowans Some radical socialists practice a politics that carries over from the days when to be a revolutionary meant supporting the Soviet Union or China. With the Soviet U…
Radical socialists used to say that they practiced a scientific socialism. It was scientific because it tried to adapt to reality, not obfuscate it or fit it to a Procrustean bed. But what many radical socialists practice today cannot be called scientific, or indeed, even coherent socialism. Their practice instead is based on a detachment from reality and a construction of a pleasing fantasy of a world that once was but is no longer; in other words, on mental illness.
Equating mental illness with a lack of muh facts and logic is purest ableism. This position is inexcusable, it does not belong in leftist circles in 2022. It would probably be advisable to look out for our comrades struggling with mental illnesses by applying a content warning for ableism to this thread and changing the title.
a good way to get me to ignore whatever you're saying is to paint someone with the brush of "mental illness" for seemingly no reason.
This feels like it should be in the dunk tank.
It should, yeah.
The author explains why in the last paragraph
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Equating mental illness with a lack of muh facts and logic is purest ableism. This position is inexcusable, it does not belong in leftist circles in 2022. It would probably be advisable to look out for our comrades struggling with mental illnesses by applying a content warning for ableism to this thread and changing the title.