Maybe silly but at my Korean classes there’s a seemingly “apolitical” guy working in IT who plans to work in China’s IT sector and we talked a bit about it. Just talked about how it’s exciting but wishes it was less difficult for him to go, that they’re making huge leaps in the IT field etc. Just nice to have a convo about it without Uyghurs or muh political freedoms or whatever coming up.
Turns out if you actually talk to regular people and mention you’re a marxist they don’t automatically call you tankie tinyman square winnieh the pooh and instead actually listen to what you say.
Crazy stuff going on outside of Twitter
On a more serious note, it’s actually true.
I had to present my assignment with my life story today in which I mention Marx as my inspiration, and people are actually interested and want to read what Marx has said.
Sometimes I get so caught up in the online world that I forget that people can actually listen to what you say.
I feel that very much, comrade. Lol. Especially since I don’t really meet and interact with people that often. In my limited experience, most people IRL will listen at least to some degree.
When I started explaining Marx to my mother she got more and more curious about it and eventually I offered her to read some of Marx’s works and told her that she can ask me questions on things she doesn’t understand. Started with the Communist Manifesto, then Wagelabour and Capital and now we’re at Capital chapter 1. Her background is as prole as you can imagine, and when she was little she got fed anti-communist propaganda from all sides. But despite that she still was undecided and identified herself as “apolitical”. Now she’s a comrade.
That’s really based. Critical support to comrade mom 07