It’s really disappointing seeing someone getting upbears for saying that if you don’t read theory, you’re a counterrevolutionary liberal.

I can’t even get out of bed in the morning for like 3 hours, let alone make time in my day to read after the pile of stuff I have backed up that I need to do.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      You're right of course.

      Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has no impact on the relative difficulty of flitting from one bit of dopamine filled content to another and slogging through 1000+ page 19th century economic texts and when a comrade with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder tells you that this is untrue and hearing it hurts them the kind and comradely thing to is double down.

            • Civility [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              ADHD's not just about attention. It fucks with what psychs call your "Executive Functioning".

              This website has a pretty good (and well cited) explanation of what that means, but basically it includes

              Organizing, prioritizing and activating for tasks

              Focusing, sustaining and shifting attention to task

              Regulating alertness, sustaining effort and processing speed

              Managing frustration and modulating emotions

              Utilizing working memory and accessing recall

              Monitoring and self-regulating action

              That's what ThatsNotPraxis is talking about. I hope you can understand that making a plan to read theory, even in small chunks, and then following through with that plan, is a lot harder for him than it is for you.

              I get that you're trying to help, but telling someone with a disability that they should be able to do something, after they've told you they can't because of their disability, is pure ableism and doing it after they've told you they're hurt by people telling them they should be able to do that thing is really unkind.

              • ThatsNotPraxis [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Thanks comrade. I couldn’t have explained what motivated me to ask people in this comm this question if I tried. :Care-Comrade:

              • vccx [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Honestly just do your best to absorb theory through osmosis through the ChapoChat slop and Hakim's youtube videos etc.

                • ThatsNotPraxis [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Yea! This has been pretty much my go to for the time being. I’m hoping one day, maybe once I get on medication, I’ll be able to sit down and engage with theory. Idk if that’s how it works, because I have no clue what being medicated is like though, so.

            • vccx [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              That Soviet economic planning game is probably good. There are better ways to understand systems in motion than by reading books. Just like the NASA scientists that finally developed an intuitive understanding of their missions and orbital dynamics because of Kerbal Space Program.

              You could theoretically understand urban planning by reading entire textbooks but you could probably develop an intuitive understanding way easier by playing City Building games.

                • vccx [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Np comrade :stalin-heart:

                  I also have ADHD and deal with executive functioning disorder, how it's played out for me so far has just been by process of elimination. I used to zoom on a lot of things but disillusionment from liberal media and entertainment has left me with only communist things to zoom on.

                  I still can't read books but I've basically just managed to replace the background radiation of liberalism and liberal ideology with communism. I would be completely lost if the chapos here and other communists weren't so funny :comrade-raccoon:

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Eh not so sure.

      On the internet you're usually reading short essays or post comments that you can go through in 10 minutes at most.

      On the other hand in books authors tend to take their sweet fucking time with getting to the actual point, I can totally see this being too much for a person with ADHD.

        • vccx [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I disagree with the takes here, you can absorb plenty of theory just by watching Marxists talk and participating in slop and YouTube. Maybe not to the highest resolution and depth but even participating in the discussions and listening to the reading groups on local orgs gets the big picture stuff through.