If you want to call yourself a leftist and don’t even try to make the bare minimum effort to read anything at all. Then what the fuck are you doing?
I know there are serious comrades here that actually want to build class consciousness and plant the seeds for revolution. A revolution that may not even occur in our lifetime. But you know as well as I do, that these goals and aspirations of ours are not idealistic, utopian dreams. No, we have hundreds of years of philosophical thinking, praxis in the forms of proletariat revolutions, and using billions of us in the working class we will win.
Capitalism itself has sown the seeds of its own destruction since its very beginning. And with the collective class consciousness instilled inevitably by the contradictions and antagonisms within capitalism, they have no choice but to inevitably fall to our will.
We alone have the chance to shape not only our futures but the futures of all generations after us. The planet is dying. People are dying. The only ones who are not, are the parasites at the top who live off of the blood, sweat, and tears of not only the working class in the imperial core, but upon those who been subjugated in the developing 3rd world where they have no choice but to accept our help due to the very conditions we instilled upon them during colonialism.
Stop being a fucking liberal. Start being someone who reads theory and understand what is happening in this world and the history that has led us to this point.
Well I appreciate your honesty about it, but it’s just a little annoying when people levy these criticisms of people who don’t read, and generalize that to be “anyone who doesn’t read theory is an enemy” regardless of the fact that maybe some people just can’t engage with even audiobooks because I can’t even will my brain to consistent on anything.
Like I get it, neurodiverse comrades are usually everyone’s afterthought, I just wish people would consider that constantly being told you’re not good enough by society in general (“oh you’re just lazy.” And “well just do y if you don’t like x”) doesn’t feel good, and then doubly so on here with people I respect.
If you can’t engage actively then you can’t engage. But if you are a Marxist you will understand that from each according to their ability is implying that not everyone will be able to contribute evenly with certain things.
We each have our strengths. If theory is not yours, then that’s okay.