I am deeply disappointed seeing how many people in this thread think that the problem with this argument is invoking genetics as the biological cause of reactionary thought, instead of the actual problem that “intelligence” or cognitive capacity has nothing to do with one’s ability to be class conscious or to have solidarity with their own class.
Not lead, not covid, and not microplastics can turn a population towards reaction, even if it does affect their cognitive capacity. Being disabled does not make you a reactionary. Being ‘smart’ doesn’t make a communist.
Yeah, I think this is an issue that has existed in the community since the subreddit and it’s just a matter of Yugo phrasing it in a way that makes the reactionary nature a bit more apparent that is causing this dissonance. The community’s culture has never outgrown streaks of fundamental antisociality like you see in a lot of groups of politically radical social outcasts.
This is one of my fundamental hangups with other communists. Class consciousness in the US will not reliably produce communists. It will produce imperialists much more reliably.
Socialist revolution is not a natural outcome of American class consciousness, WW3 is.
So, in fact, critical consciousness combined with a very refined ethical (not moral, more onto-epistemological) orientation is necessary to arrive at the consciousness needed for revolution in the US. In many regards, you DO need to be very critically skilled to be a communist in the US. Class doesn’t automatically hand you your politics, and the class that would hand you a proletarian politic does not exist in the US. Having a boss and having needs doesn’t magically create communists in a society built on theft and rape. It creates fascists.
even if conservatives generally have some genetic or developmental brain condition and even if that condition causes their reactionary tendencies, it’s obviously not a disability in western society.
I am deeply disappointed seeing how many people in this thread think that the problem with this argument is invoking genetics as the biological cause of reactionary thought, instead of the actual problem that “intelligence” or cognitive capacity has nothing to do with one’s ability to be class conscious or to have solidarity with their own class. Not lead, not covid, and not microplastics can turn a population towards reaction, even if it does affect their cognitive capacity. Being disabled does not make you a reactionary. Being ‘smart’ doesn’t make a communist.
Yeah, I think this is an issue that has existed in the community since the subreddit and it’s just a matter of Yugo phrasing it in a way that makes the reactionary nature a bit more apparent that is causing this dissonance. The community’s culture has never outgrown streaks of fundamental antisociality like you see in a lot of groups of politically radical social outcasts.
This is one of my fundamental hangups with other communists. Class consciousness in the US will not reliably produce communists. It will produce imperialists much more reliably.
Socialist revolution is not a natural outcome of American class consciousness, WW3 is.
So, in fact, critical consciousness combined with a very refined ethical (not moral, more onto-epistemological) orientation is necessary to arrive at the consciousness needed for revolution in the US. In many regards, you DO need to be very critically skilled to be a communist in the US. Class doesn’t automatically hand you your politics, and the class that would hand you a proletarian politic does not exist in the US. Having a boss and having needs doesn’t magically create communists in a society built on theft and rape. It creates fascists.
even if conservatives generally have some genetic or developmental brain condition and even if that condition causes their reactionary tendencies, it’s obviously not a disability in western society.