• Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    No, but when people's material reality conflicts with the prevailing narrative they question it.

    • Reversi [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Right... but leftward, or rightward?

      One has the path of the least resistance.

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        But that's not how shit works though. It's not an either or, people with a certain class position will never go left. Pepe that radicalize to the right tend to be people who had major privilege but lost it to the liberal world order. This is why militias are so big in the rust belt states.

        • Reversi [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I see what you mean. So people who never had said material status would then radicalize to the left--unless they had been consumed by Horatio Alger propaganda or other American exceptionalist thinking.

          I suppose the question is not only how to support and militarize the working class where they are, but how to toss stones into the turbine of the rightward radicalization pipeline... if it can be done in the imperial core.