• Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    “Leftists” and not reading theory go hand-in-hand. Meanwhile, the rest of the world that engages with their material conditions, rather than obstinately insisting they can be subverted, will continue to progress towards communism, even if that does mean heeding the necessity of developing your productive forces before you try to obliterate your opposition.

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      Not only do they not read theory, they don’t read period. 99% of Americans are completely illiterate regarding foreign policies or how things function in other countries.

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          No exaggeration, the average American adult reads at an 8th grade level (13 year olds). Nearly 1/4 are illiterate, while nearly half have low literacy. And our scores broken out by skills skew particularly bad on critical analysis and inference

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            It’s up to 8th Grade now? :P

            (Honestly I forget how USonian grades work) It’s honestly amazing that an ostensibly ‘developed’ country can even function in this situation. I guess the US doesn’t really function at all and it’s just superprofits keeping them afloat.