The left has a PR problem. No one wants us to be right, and having political views to the left of Hitler is a good way to be alienated by mainstream society. I'm not saying "sigh, we gotta get more racist." or saying "Look, I AM racist, but..." but what I am referring to is stealing right wing arguments and talking points, then using it in our favor. We already (kinda) defused based, and it was a little funny seeing some nazis claim that's cultural appropriation (never mind that Lil' B, a black guy, came up with the term first).

It sounds semi-promising to use demagoguery ourselves, but if this is a no go: I'd rather just learn that right now.

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Alright, gotta do this again on a new account:

    Language shapes the psychology of its speakers as much as the psychology and sociology of its speakers changes the language.

    Adopting the labor-aristocratic reactionary language of chuds would engender labor-aristocratic reactionary thought processes.

    If we seek solidarity with the proletariat, we should instead seek to adopt the language of the lower rungs of the proletariat in our respective countries. This means the language of minority ethnic groups, the poor, and of lgbt intersectional feminists (not all of it is worded in academic terms) whose cultures already filter upward into the fashion world as the upper classes continue to have pastoral fantasies that appropriate the aesthetics of poverty. Being poor is already fashionable, to some extent, if you can have an eye for what makes the culture of the poor unique compared to the sanitized cultures of the middle and upper classes.

    Western Leftists keep trying to appeal to the middle class even though Browder already demonstrated what happens when you do that. Mao, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, and Castro all succeeded by appealing to peasants and working alongside them on the same level.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Name the enemies, always be on the offense instead of defense, actually go and interact in places to gradually seed them with communist ideology like the right is constantly doing with nazi shit.

      There's tactics that can be stolen without actually changing language.

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, you don't even need to reference right-wingers to steal these strategies. They're laid out by Mao, Lenin, Freire, etc. "Actually go and interact in places" is what leftists mean when we say "practice".