Keep in mind that changes in their material conditions will also change their politics. These people, particularly the ones who end up worse-off from it, will be very capable of a sudden leftwards shift and their predisposition to being anti-liberal makes it easier to reach them if they've had genuine trauma caused at the hands of capitalists.
These people, particularly the ones who end up worse-off from it, will be very capable of a sudden leftwards shift and their predisposition to being anti-liberal makes it easier to reach them if they've had genuine trauma caused at the hands of capitalists.
The real problem, honestly, is that to these people Liberal=Marxist, and I'm not sure how much that specific misconception would be shifted by their lives getting more difficult.
It's a surprisingly effective thought-terminator that stops people from actually coming to coherent conclusions about anything.
Keep in mind that changes in their material conditions will also change their politics. These people, particularly the ones who end up worse-off from it, will be very capable of a sudden leftwards shift and their predisposition to being anti-liberal makes it easier to reach them if they've had genuine trauma caused at the hands of capitalists.
The real problem, honestly, is that to these people Liberal=Marxist, and I'm not sure how much that specific misconception would be shifted by their lives getting more difficult.
It's a surprisingly effective thought-terminator that stops people from actually coming to coherent conclusions about anything.
If their lives get hard what matters is what they experience, who is helping them, who is there when they're trying to get through this?
True, though at the same time you have to be wary that some of these newcomers aren't just the opportunistic equivalents of Patsocs.