seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
What is this post, an endorsement of Ted Kacsynski?
He did, what, exactly? Kill 1 ceo?
All that mattered was literally his ideology, and it’s not great by any means. This could mean literally less than nothing if the message the average American learns is the wrong one
Have you not seen any of the discourse about how the Democrat/Republican conflict just serves to divide the working class and distract them from their real enemy, the bourgeoisie?
Ben Shapiro's followers turning on him, regular rank and file Democrats gleefully supporting the killing of an evil CEO in spite of their thought leaders tut tutting at them?
This guy is dying in custody or if he's lucky getting life in prison. He sacrificed his life and it's created a flashpoint that could help to radicalize a lot of people.
He did more than any puritan left poster has ever done
This is a comment I would have written 5 years ago so instead of my jaded ass shitting on it, I’ll spare you my cynicism my starry eyed king.
And 13 years ago the closest thing to a "radical left" was the Occupy Wall Street crowd. Which were barely even left at all.
Zoom out and look at how things have changed, bit by bit, event by event.
20 years ago over 60% of the country was marching in protest of the Iraq war. Occupy Wall Street was a reaction to one of the biggest economic collapses the country has seen in the past 70 years and came of it? More reaction
= And a budding left that did not exist before, at all =
There is no magic button. This is a process.
What left?
The culture war and it’s consequences
"The bourgeoisie," or "the elites"? How is "CEO" being generalized to more potential targets and is it happening in a good or useful way?
His ideology is actually irrelevant. You've got it wrong.
What matters is changing the discussion from the working class division over cultural left vs cultural right into working class vs ruling class.
That's what this event did, because ALL of the working class united behind "killing CEOs is good actually" for this moment. The working class turned on both sides of the electoral spectrum and agreed in us vs them.
The working class vs the CEOs is the starting point for getting a lot of the working class who are stuck in the cultural-right to say "actually all this other crap doesn't affect me unlike these scumbags exploiting us".
Best take I read before
got caught was the best thing for the left is that the bigger story ended up being everyone — everyone — celebrating the CEO getting capped.
The average American is so devoid of any kind of deep political thought/knowledge (see right wingers on twitter distancing themselves from this “loony leftist”) and so purely ideological that this will not teach anyone a lesson outside of those of us who are already too politically online and have our minds made up already