• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Once again vindicated for not watching “BreadTube” slop.

    One time someone on here tried to argue to me that reading theory was too hard and it’s the same to just consume someone else’s summary. Sounds great until your only knowledge of socialism is a convicted sex trafficker/pedophile YouTuber explaining to you how Lenin would have voted for Kamala

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      7 months ago

      Put it that way you’re not wrong but:

      I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain’t gonna happen.

      Reading theory should always be encouraged but like it or not: any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        Precisely why everyone should be encouraged to read theory, even if not everyone actually ends up doing it. The more people who have actually read theory, the more people can get away with having read the summary

        As an English teacher, trust me when I say that no one is less under the illusion that everyone will do the assigned reading than me

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        7 months ago

        I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain’t gonna happen.

        No one is demanding that from anybody. They’re just demanding that people stop jerking off and throwing away their life and money to e-celebs who talk to a camera for a living and maybe read a book. Any book.

        any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

        Ok? Then tell the ecelebs to actually make good cliff notes

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      They don’t just give back seized property without some kind of legal action on the part of the convict, and if BE is right then there was no attempt by Beau’s legal team to do so. Also the club fed switch-up around the same time doesn’t really make sense unless he agreed to be an informant and got some compensation for it.

      Also just coincidentally this guy is a typical american “anarchist” whose foreign policy beliefs line up 98% with the US’s foreign policy, and any time elections come around his channel might as well be sponsored by the DNC because it’s all vote shit. He’s also close pals with a bunch of right wing libertarians who rant about “collectivism” being the enemy. Even if he’s not owned by the feds he sucks from a to z.