Liberalism is capitalist ideology but most actually existing libs don't have a conscious ideology. Many can be won over, especially if they're working class libs.
No one is born a fully-formed Marxist. Even the red-diaper babies had to be taught. The continuation of this period of heightened crisis is going to cause more working-class (and some downwardly-mobile professional) libs to confront the contradictions head-on, acknowledge the limitations of reformism, realize they can't play by the capitalists' rules, and start drawing revolutionary conclusions. Those of us who radicalized in 2016-2017 drew these conclusions with less information and less evidence against a reformist or social-democratic approach than we have now, so those who were blinded or willfully blind then may now have been made to see. We can and must be ready to point them in the correct direction, towards forging a path to revolutionary socialism and away from the traps and pitfalls of opportunism, ultraleftism, and fascism.
yeah, that's fair. most people have no idea what their ideology is or they're politics are a mess. Well-meaning libs and working class libs who were never exposed to any other proper ideology is our best shot, at least for a decent left-wing opposition.
Yeah no one has read the liberal thinkers that inform liberalism, they just get it through osmosis in the community. Even if you do poli sci in University, unless you study American Political Development, you get a dog shit history of liberalism too. Modern liberalism as an ideology is entirely an invention of the 30s to 50s to give a set of ideas that supported capitalism, and it threw out 100 years of established republican social analysis to do so because if you stick with it, you become socialist.
Liberalism is capitalist ideology but most actually existing libs don't have a conscious ideology. Many can be won over, especially if they're working class libs.
I mean I would bet like 90% of us here were libs (or worse) at one point.
Yea I was a lib only three years ago
No one is born a fully-formed Marxist. Even the red-diaper babies had to be taught. The continuation of this period of heightened crisis is going to cause more working-class (and some downwardly-mobile professional) libs to confront the contradictions head-on, acknowledge the limitations of reformism, realize they can't play by the capitalists' rules, and start drawing revolutionary conclusions. Those of us who radicalized in 2016-2017 drew these conclusions with less information and less evidence against a reformist or social-democratic approach than we have now, so those who were blinded or willfully blind then may now have been made to see. We can and must be ready to point them in the correct direction, towards forging a path to revolutionary socialism and away from the traps and pitfalls of opportunism, ultraleftism, and fascism.
Everyone is born a scientist, it's only through years of indoctrination that children stop asking questions and using their eyes and ears.
liberals are beyond parody lmao, you literally just learned about some a few years ago and think you're Lenin
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yeah, that's fair. most people have no idea what their ideology is or they're politics are a mess. Well-meaning libs and working class libs who were never exposed to any other proper ideology is our best shot, at least for a decent left-wing opposition.
Yeah no one has read the liberal thinkers that inform liberalism, they just get it through osmosis in the community. Even if you do poli sci in University, unless you study American Political Development, you get a dog shit history of liberalism too. Modern liberalism as an ideology is entirely an invention of the 30s to 50s to give a set of ideas that supported capitalism, and it threw out 100 years of established republican social analysis to do so because if you stick with it, you become socialist.