if you’ll pardon me complaining about this publicly: some of the meanest mfs i’ve met online are internet-poisoned communists. If i weren’t already a marxist-leninist, i would have some very unsavory ideas about what communists are like.

Lemmygrad and Hexbear are very nice places, thank you comrades _ … but elsewhere, even IRL, i’ve met incredibly rude people calling themselves communists and i need to stress this: if you want people on our side, you need to give good impressions of what we’re like. Don’t be hostile or dismissive or just violently anti-social. If you have to explain something for the millionth time to yet another liberal or anarchist… do it [insert Sankara quote], or at least find a nice way of saying you don’t want to. Save your offensive capabilities for people who deserve it. And please, PLEASE, go outside occasionally. IRL interaction is healthy, and will quickly kill any terminally online behaviours you might have. Maybe join an org while you’re at it ;)

i’ll stop stating the obvious now. Have a great day, comrades.

  • redtea
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    8 months ago

    Do you havea link to the article?

    These mfs need to read What is to be done? I’m sure it’s in there. About how we basically need people in all professions. It’s partly why I advocate for people getting any education and not worrying too much about whether a profession is pure enough (maybe don’t join the police or military or work for an arms dealer).

    It’d be great if we could all study Marxism and get employed at Revolution Inc but it’s not an option. So in the meantime, we need to learn to think, to develop skills and learn how the world works, to be well placed for when things start to change, and to be doing whatever little good we can in our day-to-day lives. It doesn’t hurt to get organised, either.