• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Pithy quotes like that should be a jumping off point for a conversation or just meant to provoke thought

      Meh. "X is a Religion" always comes off a thought-terminating. It implies that any additional conversation is simply your orthodox view and not a logical thought progression.

      You can’t write perfect slogans that 100% describe your ideology or political aims.

      True. But you can weed out the shit ones. "X is a Religion" inevitably devolves into some personal attack on the subject expressing the belief. It is an ideological position rather than a material one.

      That's before you get into the value of religion as a useful heuristic for navigating complex social situations. Its just a bad phrasing, all around.

      “Eat the rich” is another example of such a slogan.

      Its a much better slogan because it forms a basis for class consciousness while being implicitly jokular.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You can’t write perfect slogans that 100% describe your ideology or political aims

      so we're just going to ignore the plan of spray painting the entirity of das kapital onto a building