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Sounds like the typical member of the Read More Theory club.
if you disagree with the Read More Theory club, that means you’ve read either too much, or too little theory. Please read this poorly sourced blog about how all anarchists are feds, and then this overt right wing fascist propaganda about how the global south would benefit from more russian paramilitary groups, actually
average ML communist party
Sun Yat-Sen was a nationalist. Educated in Hawaii. Had an arranged marriage.
Just wanted to ask because I felt communist before reading books myself. Are people allowed to identify as commie if they have a good grasp on the meaning without having red much?
I love communism for all its depth but to the average Joe, having to read “Das Kapital” probably looks daunting and thats like the start of the reading journey.
There is no central authority that defines communism, so nobody can stop you from calling yourself communist, the word also has had varying definitions over time. The main difference I see is that if you haven’t read anything, you are a idealist communist as your opinion is not based on a materialist analysis of the mode of production.
I mean there is other media that could lead you to a materialist analysis of the mode of production and I would argue that for many comrades these times they first educate themselves via social media and start reading once they are largely ideologically aligned.
Oh, yeah sure. It depends on the social medium I guess. Long form YouTube content should definetly work, not sure if something like twitter actually allows content to be in depth enough to get a understanding of anything. I thought you meant with your original comment people that like the communist goal (communism) and generally support the actions/programms of communist movements, but haven’t actually informed themselves on materialism and the underlying contradictions of captalism.
Yeah hour long essays about the UdSSR and socialism was the pipeline that brought me here. I knew “tankies” were on hexbear but my understanding changed before I dared to come here and take up reading “black magic books”.
I misread the last sentence and thought you said you read the black book as in:
I think I had my fill of CIA propaganda for a lifetime so no thanks 😂. For the sake of argument surely not a bad thing tho.
