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  • Duo [any]
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    4 years ago

    Something that helped me with this is just accepting that everyone is allowed to have some brain worms. None of us are ideologically perfect, and all of us have brain worms in some capacity, so as long as you can agree with the most basic, most important stuff, it's not worth the effort to try to convert someone on some niche issue that only matters 5% of the time.

    • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      everyone is allowed to have some brain worms. None of us are ideologically perfect,

      reject the revisionist theses, uphold marxism leninism hoxhaism

      • Duo [any]
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        4 years ago

        Ok chief, that's great, but we have to take theory in context. The second to last sentence here is key: "The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed." There is no major class struggle party or organization in the United States (which I assume is where OP lives, but this is true for most of the western world anyways), so there's no issue there. The second part refers to the ideological growth of both people. I think most people here would agree that if you are trying to radicalize someone, you don't start out by giving them Marx and Lenin trying to argue with them on all fronts. That's just going to turn people away from you, which harms both of you. You work with people where they're at, and if where they're at is "my boss pisses me off," or "it's pretty fucked up that Trump is going to get another justice on the supreme court," then you work from there.

        If this was all just a meme like the hoxha poster above, I apologize, comrade.