Ah comrade, you are mistaken - a luxury vehicle capable of having a fart noise as its horn, built by abused labor is not bougie. You see, to recall AOC’s own definition:
I think it’s real bougie to grow up with a defined political ideology,” she adds. “You need to have college-educated parents for that, with a political lexicon. My mother doesn’t even have an English lexicon! When people say I’m not Socialist enough, I find that very classist. It’s like, ‘What — I didn’t read enough books for you, buddy?’ ”
I think it’s real bougie to grow up with a defined political ideology,” she adds. “You need to have college-educated parents for that, with a political lexicon.
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TIL Vietnamese communists were all PHD students who simply got bored and ventured into the jungles to fight for Marxism Leninism
It certainly helps. All these movements and groups had some high level thinkers in their inception, but the difference is that they weren’t dumb like AOC to think uneducated people and informally educated people weren’t capable of learning and understanding.
In fact, many of them believed that the “less educated” were able to understand communism and anti imperialism much better than the bougie academics in their own circles.
But that was a bit different back then. The only people who could afford to be the first ones to study theory had to be well off enough to be formally educated. Nowadays everything is available online that a poor person with a phone can read several books about socialism, so the bougie academic figurehead isn’t all that necessary anymore.
Here I am growing up the child of poor anarchist hippies and all I needed was an internet connection and an army of internet nerds to bully me into reading capital.
She's right up until she then uses that argument as justification for being AGAINST learning the fucking theory that would make her more effective and benefit the working class. Fucking americans are constantly arguing against learning to their own detriment.
Nah there's definitely truth in educated families having more ability for children to receive education at an earlier age, the problem is then claiming this means you should be against education entirely. Improving education among the working class is literally one of the most important things to achieve.
But she went to a private college and studied political science/economics while there. You'd think she would have done exactly that and read books on different ideologies while studying both.
I kinda get what she's saying though. Material conditions have an impact on the information one can consume, the amount of time they have to read and think about theory, etc. There's definitely (at least on the internet) a very sizable amount of leftists who spend more time reading and are better versed in the vernacular, history, developments which is all well and good but it almost becomes a certain kind of leftist gatekeeping. If you haven't read this book, seen this lecture, understood this completely complex concept or historical development, or don't use this specific phrase or term to define yourself, you're not a real leftist apparently regardless of your perspective on the world and your lived in material conditions. As based as they were, I don't think viet Cong members spent much time arguing about theory
Ah comrade, you are mistaken - a luxury vehicle capable of having a fart noise as its horn, built by abused labor is not bougie. You see, to recall AOC’s own definition:
…it is theory that is the mark of the bourgeoisie
Wtf, this is honestly some of the most ignorant shit I've ever heard. Literal :cia: :fedposting: talking points from AOCIA
Insert Angela Davis quotes about people learning how to read though theory at the Black Panthers.
Hell, leftists groups here regularly held fanon reading groups in shacks.
Don't confuse education with accreditation
real political conversations can only be done with big English words, you see
Also translations exist.
Fanon's wretched of the earth for instance has been translated into many languages in colonised countries, including Swahili.
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TIL Vietnamese communists were all PHD students who simply got bored and ventured into the jungles to fight for Marxism Leninism
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lmao
Chinese peasants, the Black Panthers, and anti apartheid fighters, famously colledge educated.
It certainly helps. All these movements and groups had some high level thinkers in their inception, but the difference is that they weren’t dumb like AOC to think uneducated people and informally educated people weren’t capable of learning and understanding.
In fact, many of them believed that the “less educated” were able to understand communism and anti imperialism much better than the bougie academics in their own circles.
But that was a bit different back then. The only people who could afford to be the first ones to study theory had to be well off enough to be formally educated. Nowadays everything is available online that a poor person with a phone can read several books about socialism, so the bougie academic figurehead isn’t all that necessary anymore.
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Here I am growing up the child of poor anarchist hippies and all I needed was an internet connection and an army of internet nerds to bully me into reading capital.
o7 o7 o7 based af for reading theory
I am currently being bullied, and bullying others, to read third worldist theory.
Next up on my list is A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James
She's right up until she then uses that argument as justification for being AGAINST learning the fucking theory that would make her more effective and benefit the working class. Fucking americans are constantly arguing against learning to their own detriment.
no she isn't
the idea is fucking ridiculous to begin with
Nah there's definitely truth in educated families having more ability for children to receive education at an earlier age, the problem is then claiming this means you should be against education entirely. Improving education among the working class is literally one of the most important things to achieve.
is an out of touch middle class college dipshit thing to say
Fair!
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But she went to a private college and studied political science/economics while there. You'd think she would have done exactly that and read books on different ideologies while studying both.
Ah yes socialist theory, famously only available in english
I kinda get what she's saying though. Material conditions have an impact on the information one can consume, the amount of time they have to read and think about theory, etc. There's definitely (at least on the internet) a very sizable amount of leftists who spend more time reading and are better versed in the vernacular, history, developments which is all well and good but it almost becomes a certain kind of leftist gatekeeping. If you haven't read this book, seen this lecture, understood this completely complex concept or historical development, or don't use this specific phrase or term to define yourself, you're not a real leftist apparently regardless of your perspective on the world and your lived in material conditions. As based as they were, I don't think viet Cong members spent much time arguing about theory
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