Yeah, from what I've seen a lot of leftist spaces rn are being flooded with people who are into abstract leftist ideas but in terms of anything more complex like history or geopolitics are still super Lib brained. Lots of people who have read Marx but still think the USSR was 2nd only to Nazi Germany in terms of evil and who support nuking the DPRK for "humanitarian" reasons. The younger more optimistic me would call these people "baby leftists" and argue theirs potential to educate them, but over the years I've if anything seen most of these people get MORE Lib while still holding onto the leftist aesthetics, confronting them on their BS if anything just makes them dig their heels in more. I've gotten to the point I don't get excited anymore when I meet someone irl who calls themselves a leftist/socialist/anarchist anymore, I just wince and wait for the Contra/Vaush level bad takes to start flowing.
Yeah, from what I've seen a lot of leftist spaces rn are being flooded with people who are into abstract leftist ideas but in terms of anything more complex like history or geopolitics are still super Lib brained. Lots of people who have read Marx but still think the USSR was 2nd only to Nazi Germany in terms of evil and who support nuking the DPRK for "humanitarian" reasons. The younger more optimistic me would call these people "baby leftists" and argue theirs potential to educate them, but over the years I've if anything seen most of these people get MORE Lib while still holding onto the leftist aesthetics, confronting them on their BS if anything just makes them dig their heels in more. I've gotten to the point I don't get excited anymore when I meet someone irl who calls themselves a leftist/socialist/anarchist anymore, I just wince and wait for the Contra/Vaush level bad takes to start flowing.