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I have nothing to add really, since others have already brought this up.
But I think this is a blind spot in the online left which the offline left can, at times, have a better grasp on if you can manage to even get into an org. Social alienation is one of the biggest if not the biggest problem facing most westerners (at least until climate change goes into full-swing). It’s why parasocial platforms (Vaush et al) get such huge amounts of traction. A successful movement would attempt to leverage this and redirect it to something healthier.
This is an excellent point and puts into words the main reason I didn’t downvote this post. I don’t want @tomaw@lemmygrad.ml to feel poorly about posting this.
Alienation and loneliness are something everyone feels under capitalism, all across the political spectrum, and the left needs to use this in agitprop a bit more.
I have nothing to add really, since others have already brought this up.
But I think this is a blind spot in the online left which the offline left can, at times, have a better grasp on if you can manage to even get into an org. Social alienation is one of the biggest if not the biggest problem facing most westerners (at least until climate change goes into full-swing). It’s why parasocial platforms (Vaush et al) get such huge amounts of traction. A successful movement would attempt to leverage this and redirect it to something healthier.
This is an excellent point and puts into words the main reason I didn’t downvote this post. I don’t want @tomaw@lemmygrad.ml to feel poorly about posting this.
Alienation and loneliness are something everyone feels under capitalism, all across the political spectrum, and the left needs to use this in agitprop a bit more.