They aren't leftists, they've adopted the affect of leftism, not because of a belief in materialist philosophy, or an anarchist philosophy rooted in opposition to hierarchy (though many still call themselves anarchists). They're bored, Western liberals looking for something to argue about online, attaching themselves to the ruling class approved, sanitized list of historical "good guys" because, like all liberals, they fear the moral judgement of future generations more than they want to create a better world for them.
They're just posters, all of the metapolitics on the internet, political compass shit, it only describes a liberal understanding of politics. It isn't actual politics in any form. Posting isn't important.
Okay, how do we change someone’s mind in person when the unimportant posting has already beat us to the punch and filled their subconscious with garbage data?
To the extent that individual opinions matter in a society where working class power has been totally annihilated, just talking to people, sharing the experiences of people who lived through socialist revolutions can be very moving to liberals. My reevaluation of Mao from decades of being told he was a monster came from the teary-eyed testimonies of women sold as chattel to landlords in their teens talking about how the communists liberated them, made them equal, and taught them to read.
They aren't leftists, they've adopted the affect of leftism, not because of a belief in materialist philosophy, or an anarchist philosophy rooted in opposition to hierarchy (though many still call themselves anarchists). They're bored, Western liberals looking for something to argue about online, attaching themselves to the ruling class approved, sanitized list of historical "good guys" because, like all liberals, they fear the moral judgement of future generations more than they want to create a better world for them.
What is to be done, then? Let them spiral downwards into the crypto-fash they really are? It's not as if they'd ever listen to us.
They're just posters, all of the metapolitics on the internet, political compass shit, it only describes a liberal understanding of politics. It isn't actual politics in any form. Posting isn't important.
Okay, how do we change someone’s mind in person when the unimportant posting has already beat us to the punch and filled their subconscious with garbage data?
To the extent that individual opinions matter in a society where working class power has been totally annihilated, just talking to people, sharing the experiences of people who lived through socialist revolutions can be very moving to liberals. My reevaluation of Mao from decades of being told he was a monster came from the teary-eyed testimonies of women sold as chattel to landlords in their teens talking about how the communists liberated them, made them equal, and taught them to read.
Reality, in other words, has a leftist bias?