Liberalism manifests itself in various ways.
Do you ever let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms?
Do you ever indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization? To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards? To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination?
Do you let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame?
Do you ever give pride of place to your own opinions? To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline?
Do you indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly?
Do you ever hear incorrect views without rebutting them, or even to hear remarks that threaten your community without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened?
Do you ever see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but instead allow him to continue?
Do you ever regard yourself as having rendered great service to the revolution, or pride yourself on being a veteran, or disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study?
Are you ever aware of your own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them?
If you answered "
" to any of these questions, you might be a Liberal!
To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.
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Seriously though, I do think if Mao knew about the internet and what liberals would get up to on it, this one would have been the opposite lmao
To fail to dunk on a liberal online. This is a fifth type.
Also, I hope this gets upvoted enough that libs start to see it, wander in, and then go "hey thats me! I passed the test I'm a liberal!"
True, I suppose that mao really didn't conceive of many-to-many mass communications becomign an endless time waster rather than useful discourse primarily among your community or at least countrymen (is there a non-gendered word for this that doesn't sound weird?)
"people in your country/political entity" / "stakeholder in within the territory controlled by the state's monopoly on violence" do roll really easy from the tongue.
All great points, and i'm really privilaged to be able to say no to all of them.
BUT (and it's a big but)
Not everyone is lucky to be able to speak their minds and receive no ill for it. Most of us are living in a hypercapitalist society and one of the milestones of capitalism is obedience. For being docile we are rewarded with the chance to live another day.
I have always spoken my mind about everything, and i have mostly been hurt by it. My privilage is, I guess, that the work I'm doing is efficient enough that some people choose to tolerate me. Not everyone is in that position and we certainly shouldn't ostracize people for it.
Everyone who has not been ostracised entirely from human contact or murdered is a liberal-enabler. It's plain and simple.
I think its only really getting problematic if you answer yes to more than 3-4 of the types imo
many of them don't apply directly to the modern world we find ourselves in
Mfw "Unfortunately, I'm afraid so." to all but four of the questions
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I know we're all libs is the funny joke, but my fellow comrades, you need not do everything perfectly to be valid. We're all trying, I know
, and that's enough to make you a full comrade in my eyes.I really need to read mao
And chinese theory post-mao tbh
Do you ever hear incorrect views without rebutting them, or even to hear remarks that threaten your community without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened?
This is me every day cause I'm a lib. I need to get over it.
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I would rather be the ranting trans commie at my local coffee shop than "that nice quiet guy who killed himself and nobody knows why."
The secret they don't want you to know:
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