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.
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?