That was just the start of my radicalization. I would still be a listless liberal if I had never stumbled into /r/COMPLETEANARCHY, which led me to /r/cth.
No, it's because I managed to get a proper political education. If you want more communists, go out there and teach people about communism. Find out what's wrong in their lives and show them how it's capitalism's fault.
Some people will disagree with me here, but I think being a western leftist, especially an American leftist, is more or less random. The material conditions for an influential leftist organization do not yet exist. People joke about treats, but getting the average American on board with communism is a tough sell while they still have decent quality of life.
My personal belief is that either climate change will upset material conditions enough for the political setting to change, or that America will slowly slide into irrelevance while clinging to neoliberalism.
My hometown is quite prominent in the nation's history for things like labor movements and women's rights. Also I grew up on a lot of older counterculture, so a lot of the people I looked up to were giving me the tools to see beyond what the media was (and still is) telling us.
I mean, on the individual level things are chaotic and complex enough that you can't always point to a specific person and say "this is why they believe what they believe that". But the predominant reasons I see with people is that they have enough awareness and interactions with the negative outcomes of the status-quo that they do not buy into the propaganda, by some reason like rebelliousness or curiosity read theory and get a better paradigm to understand the world, or they actually have some proximity to struggle explained in a socialist/leftist lens.
Tbh not as much as I should but when I judge it necessary (public transit, crowded places, especially indoors, etc.), probably a bit more so since the wastewater numbers have been indicating a spike here (actually I just checked and they seem to have shot back down but they were up a lot the last couple week so best to be safe)
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It's different for different people. For me it was a combination of working a shit job for shit pay and the lies about the Iraq War.
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That was just the start of my radicalization. I would still be a listless liberal if I had never stumbled into /r/COMPLETEANARCHY, which led me to /r/cth.
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No, it's because I managed to get a proper political education. If you want more communists, go out there and teach people about communism. Find out what's wrong in their lives and show them how it's capitalism's fault.
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Some people will disagree with me here, but I think being a western leftist, especially an American leftist, is more or less random. The material conditions for an influential leftist organization do not yet exist. People joke about treats, but getting the average American on board with communism is a tough sell while they still have decent quality of life.
My personal belief is that either climate change will upset material conditions enough for the political setting to change, or that America will slowly slide into irrelevance while clinging to neoliberalism.
Probably a bit of both tbh, both those conditions are rapidly developing.
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having lefty parents and being poor got me there tbh
My hometown is quite prominent in the nation's history for things like labor movements and women's rights. Also I grew up on a lot of older counterculture, so a lot of the people I looked up to were giving me the tools to see beyond what the media was (and still is) telling us.
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I mean, on the individual level things are chaotic and complex enough that you can't always point to a specific person and say "this is why they believe what they believe that". But the predominant reasons I see with people is that they have enough awareness and interactions with the negative outcomes of the status-quo that they do not buy into the propaganda, by some reason like rebelliousness or curiosity read theory and get a better paradigm to understand the world, or they actually have some proximity to struggle explained in a socialist/leftist lens.
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in my case i'm pretty sure I'm just built different
What makes you think you are not get fooled? Maybe you are getting fooled in a different way.
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I'm personally built different
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going or cumming who knows these days
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Pretty sure most of us did. Hell, most of us still are. Just to varying degrees. How many people here are still masking?
i still wear a mask when i go out
even outside of covid, i haven't got a cold or a stomach bug since the pandemic started
Same. Given some of the struggle sessions, I'm pretty sure we're not in the majority though.
Tbh not as much as I should but when I judge it necessary (public transit, crowded places, especially indoors, etc.), probably a bit more so since the wastewater numbers have been indicating a spike here (actually I just checked and they seem to have shot back down but they were up a lot the last couple week so best to be safe)
If people are not masking indoors with n95s in public, they are not comrades.