Cowbee [he/they]

Hope everyone has a pleasant week, sticks with their goals and plans, and takes care of themselves.

Communism will win.

You too comrade!

Going alright, only got 3 and a half hours of sleep last night though so work is going to suck. How about you?

It does!

Bit of A, bit of B. When it’s such a useful tool for hegemony, even the “true believers” end up swept by that too. They mutually reinforce each other and form a “politician’s Christianity.”

Welcome comrade, and good luck!

You too Oppo!

Same.

My favorite obscure communist theory is that Engels created Max Stirner as a pseudonym for Marx to get mad at, lol

Can absolutely second Elementary Principles of Philosophy, it’s the first work that really made dialectical materialism “click” for me! Even put it in my intro ML reading list for it. I linked an .epub in case you’d rather use an eReader, from a site maintained by a comrade.

toots.matopacos.dog is Left-Unity, run by a Hexbear user. ML content is welcome.

It would be so funny to have Lenin’s bust directly watching me as I sleep, lmao

I agree! Would be a fun way to try to sharpen our skills.

Great way to put it, exactly! Spend the effort where it’s most effective and you’ll win in the long run.

Thanks! And you hit the nail on the head, the controversial and harder to tackle concepts come after the basics, which are easier to grasp and more capable of being taught. We often let past generations and their nuance dominate the present, when all it really takes to get liberals to begin to see our frame of view is starting with basic principles.

No problem, comrade!

Agitprop on Lemmy.world is very difficult, it’s much easier on Lemmy.ml. My view is that you should focus on the radicalized liberals first, as they are the easiest to turn into comrades, and you should do so in spaces where you aren’t going to be dogpiled on.

If you insist on doing agitprop on Lemmy.world, try to keep it short, small, clear, and on non-controversial topics. As an example, touching Russia/Ukraine on Lemmy.world is already a lost cause, but you can demystify socialism and advocate for it there. Other users may come to more correct positions on Russia/Ukraine by getting more into socialism, and you don’t paint a massive target on your back. As a rule of thumb, you should be ratioing those who you’re talking with, or else you might end up backfiring.

I also recommend reading False Witnesses, “Brainwashing”, and Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” in order to better understand how people think. Identifying what lines you can push in what audiences is 90% of the effort, the last 10% is remaining calm and trying to use your own words rather than endless Marx quotes or whatnot.

Good luck!

Yep, absolutely! I try to atone for my sins by trying to rectify mistakes my past self made in others.

I hate that this used to be me in my old Reddit days years ago.