These teens are getting roped into neo-fascism in absence of Marxist guidance showing them what the “matrix” actually represents. Vulnerable young men are getting told that yes, corporations are oppressing them, and yes, the US government is a puppet of the rich - but the solution being presented to them is to become an exploiter themselves rather than any form of class solidarity or dialectical materialism. I really feel like this “escape the matrix” rhetoric is the kind of thing we can capitalise on instead of just standing idly by as young men have their very real grievances with modern life twisted into something wholly unhealthy

  • KiG V2
    7•2 years ago

    Ultimately this boils down to organization to me. We need a serious, popular, hand-on-the-pulse ML organization that could have a whole beefy division dedicated to psyops/propaganda or other cultural/social/intellectual warfare.

    I mean, what, I could spend 2-6 weeks of my free time making such a video, the production quality would be tolerable and the content quality would be okay enough. I’d get 100-300 views. These numbers are unacceptable to me, no bang for a lot of buck.

    But would I chip in $10 to org taxes and have $1 of that go towards a dedicated specialist or team of specialists, pulling from the skills and brainpower of many more comrades, with long term plans dedicated to this issue, far more dedicated than I alone would want to plan ahead for something as niche as this? Oh yeah.

    My life has been a cluster F for the year of 2022 and it threw out my plans of seeking membership with one of the couple ML orgs already so I don’t know if this is already happening, or a possibility, or not. I’m also not familiar with any other operations. The only major English-speaking ML media outlet that comes to my mind is Breakthrough News, they fill the respectable cable news niche very well. But there needs to be something for all these poo-brained Zoomers. There’s very wide gaps in the niches MLs are filling here. Where’s the ML dating coaches, Tik Tokers, Twitch streamers, rappers, religious leaders, sports commentators? Some nice, some nasty, some informal or formal, some rated R some rated G…

    I guess part of the problem besides our general suppression would then be body count. And it’s kind of a “you need experience to get a job to get experience” sort of issue; we need bodies to make war to win bodies to make war and so on.