As someone who is mostly surrounded by ‘leftist’ intellectuals, I feel this too. The truth is, these people are okay with being socdem. They have it reasonably good, they have a good job and they do not live in fear of poverty. But they understand that being pro-capitalist out loud is sort of wrong. So they choose to be socdem. This way they can just get the panda points of being so caring and so left while not digging deeper into systematic change. They don’t want to be reminded that more needs to be done. They don’t want to be reminded that socdem countries profit off the abuse capitalism inflicts on the global south.
Because life is too good for them to ever dig deeper. Just be selectively outraged at the right and capitalism but don’t be an evil communist who wants actual change. That’s too radical. Its selfishness come to life.
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They are the worse type of person, they dont care about others, only about themselves, they only “care” about other persons when they can feel better about themselves while doing it, other wise they will ignore or even justify the suffering around them, and they never will admit they are garbage persons, because it would go against their ego, their fragile and over inflated ego. Capitalism is an fabric of sociopaths.
Caring about others could also be considered “selfish” (e.g. a very personal “I would be extremely sad if insert person died”, or a more general “I feel angry about the mass exploitation of other people, and I want it to end so that I can stop being angry”). The big difference is that some people (sociopaths) don’t feel uncomfortable about bad things happening to other people (or other people that they don’t personally know), and they probably love capitalism
Of course, that’s just being pedantic :>|
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In practice it doesn’t really make a difference, but I find it interesting. (I don’t know if there’s any explicitly Marxist theory about it, although I suppose it’s a materialist concept)
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Yeah, that might be true; I’ve never heard/read it anywhere, at least (IIRC)
“It’s OK if there’s still extreme exploitation and a massive amount of people live in horrible conditions if I can have a somewhat decent job, free-ish healthcare, and my beloved consumer goods”
unironically. I think attacking the uselessness of charities will help with these people. They genuinely think just more capitalism is going to solve this
Good point. For a typical liberal, charities might seem like the only “realistic” option, even though they’re actually just for publicity and to avoid paying taxes
Its like how marxs said, the revolution needs to come from the ploretariat itself, because the burgeoise and the petit burgeoise and the middle class are aways going to eventually degenerate into an reactionary movement. Those liberals and soccdems are never going to do shit, they are never going to fight against western imperialism nor capitalism.
Preach brother
ummmmmmmmm, I cannot understand some of the big words (im a dumbass)
Explanation? I’m gathering that its mostly about why libs think they are being “tired out” by leftism even though they are barely exposed to any of it.
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oh god that last sentence grinds my gears
“you should have more fun”
I’ll have fun when I’m dead ma
Oh good point. The art thing I get.
Americans are mostly poor.
Hell, a huge chunk don’t even have access to the Internet.
I don’t get this, tbh.
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Oh gotcha. I thought he was talking about us or something haha
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