I frankly wouldn’t be able to trust someone apathetic about politics in the increasingly repressive situation we face in the future in the west (or well in general, how can you look at police brutality against black people and shrug and say you simply don’t have an opinion, being apolitical in the US is tantamount to saying you’re comfortable with the status quo and can afford to not care. Which is different to be clear than being for progressive politics but checking out because of despair, mental health reasons, feeling a lack of progress, feeling it adds too much stress, etc. Like I get that, I don’t watch the bourgeois propaganda called news anymore because it’s just lies and it upsets me. I don’t need to know every development within the charade of domestic politics).
A well-meaning Bernie-Sanders type that supports Cuba and doesn’t fully believe imperialist propaganda about the latest AES atrocities, sure. But someone who just kind of ignores your politics to be with you and who disagrees or “doesn’t have an opinion” (especially the latter as that’s just an empty head waiting to be filled and if they’re not letting you fill it, sooner or later their liberal friends, the state, bourgeois propaganda will) can just as easily wake up one day and think “oh shit, the news is right, I’m with a dangerous commie”.
People don’t want to hear it because they think love conquers all or some such but the reality is couples fight, break up, grow apart for all kinds of reasons having nothing to do with the entire propaganda apparatus of state and nation-wide peer pressure bearing down on them. Sure you have the possibility of having to contend with his/her friends saying you’re an extremist and they should get away from you even if you’re not a communist simply because their friends take a disliking to you, but when you are a communist the chance is much higher and as the contradictions heighten it only gets worse.
I guess I’d ask whether someone only tolerating that side of you by ignoring it won’t jump ship the moment their friends and society start pressing them too hard on what a horrible person you are because (propaganda). Fair weather love for anyone is easy, as is the first year or two where the passion is hot, its whether they have any tolerance for stormy seas after things cool a little that I guess I think matters.
So having a good foundation not built on apoliticism of one partner for the other’s beliefs is I think important. They don’t have to be an ML but they can’t be the type of empty-headed liberal who frankly is just waiting to be turned into an anti-communist liberal who at the very least looks at you with contempt and thinks you’re delusional and irrational. Obviously if they’re empty-headed and are receptive to theory and education that’s one thing, being the type who gets stressed or looks distant at the mere mention of politics, theory, capitalism, exploitation is another.
It depends on what kind of person.
I frankly wouldn’t be able to trust someone apathetic about politics in the increasingly repressive situation we face in the future in the west (or well in general, how can you look at police brutality against black people and shrug and say you simply don’t have an opinion, being apolitical in the US is tantamount to saying you’re comfortable with the status quo and can afford to not care. Which is different to be clear than being for progressive politics but checking out because of despair, mental health reasons, feeling a lack of progress, feeling it adds too much stress, etc. Like I get that, I don’t watch the bourgeois propaganda called news anymore because it’s just lies and it upsets me. I don’t need to know every development within the charade of domestic politics).
A well-meaning Bernie-Sanders type that supports Cuba and doesn’t fully believe imperialist propaganda about the latest AES atrocities, sure. But someone who just kind of ignores your politics to be with you and who disagrees or “doesn’t have an opinion” (especially the latter as that’s just an empty head waiting to be filled and if they’re not letting you fill it, sooner or later their liberal friends, the state, bourgeois propaganda will) can just as easily wake up one day and think “oh shit, the news is right, I’m with a dangerous commie”.
People don’t want to hear it because they think love conquers all or some such but the reality is couples fight, break up, grow apart for all kinds of reasons having nothing to do with the entire propaganda apparatus of state and nation-wide peer pressure bearing down on them. Sure you have the possibility of having to contend with his/her friends saying you’re an extremist and they should get away from you even if you’re not a communist simply because their friends take a disliking to you, but when you are a communist the chance is much higher and as the contradictions heighten it only gets worse.
I guess I’d ask whether someone only tolerating that side of you by ignoring it won’t jump ship the moment their friends and society start pressing them too hard on what a horrible person you are because (propaganda). Fair weather love for anyone is easy, as is the first year or two where the passion is hot, its whether they have any tolerance for stormy seas after things cool a little that I guess I think matters.
So having a good foundation not built on apoliticism of one partner for the other’s beliefs is I think important. They don’t have to be an ML but they can’t be the type of empty-headed liberal who frankly is just waiting to be turned into an anti-communist liberal who at the very least looks at you with contempt and thinks you’re delusional and irrational. Obviously if they’re empty-headed and are receptive to theory and education that’s one thing, being the type who gets stressed or looks distant at the mere mention of politics, theory, capitalism, exploitation is another.