He basically tells you to read theory and do some self critique.
Steban, the Student Communist - “What makes you ask that question, above any other?”
You - “Because they can’t handle me.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Maybe your problem is that you think it’s their job to handle you…”
You - “Because I can’t handle them.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Maybe your problem is that you think they’re yours to handle…”
You - “Because they won’t let me forget the life we used to have together.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Ah, gendarme. Your problem isn’t ideological, it’s personal…”
You - “I don’t know! It’s just what my brain told me to say.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “That’s because your brain is floating in ideology, gendarme. It’s practically drowning in it…”
Steban, the Student Communist - “You asked that question because you’re still under the influence of ideology. That’s natural. You’re like a fish that’s only now discovering that her whole life has been dictated by the movements of sea currents.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “That’s what ideology is. It’s like there are these invisible forces everywhere, pushing and tugging you this way and that, and you don’t even know they’re there.”
You - “What does this have to do with communism/women?”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Everything, man. That is part of the communist project, to destroy the ideological structures that reduce men and women to these hollow shells of identity.”
You - “Is it even possible to imagine a world without ideology?”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Of course it’s possible. Just extremely difficult. You practically have to be a world-historical individual to do it.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Do you know the story of Dobreva and Abadanaiz?”
Steban, the Student Communist - “The so-called ‘Revolutionary Lovers’. They were the Dual Commissars of Revolution in Insulinde.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Julia Dobreva came from Graad. Jean Abadanaiz was born in Revachol. She was brilliant, charismatic, a revolutionary comet. He was her partner and stabiliser, the planet who kept her in orbit.”
Steban, the Student Communist - “It’s from them we get the notion of dual-leadership, the décomptage, Revachol’s truly great contribution to revolutionary thought. I believe it even persists in some form in the RCM, even to this day.”
You - “It’s too bad they died like all the rest of the communards.”/“What happened to them, Dobreva and Abadanaiz?”
Steban, the Student Communist - “They died on their own terms, like real revolutionaries. There’s a lot to say for that.”
You - “So… you’re saying women are only bourgeois because of ideology?”
Steban, the Student Communist - He sighs. “There’s more to it than that. People still make their own choices. It’s a matter of being aware what’s influencing them.”
You - “What does this question say about me?”
Steban, the Student Communist - “Yes, that’s the question you should be asking yourself.”
Echo Maker - His companion nods, but offers no further solace.
You - “I need to take some time to think about all this…” (Conclude.)
Steban, the Student Communist - The young man nods but says nothing. He appears to be distracted by something…
What happens if you ask that?
I’m not sure, I’ve never failed at communism
are ya winning son?
Knowing Disco Elysium your spleen adventurism’s your heart to protect the world from whatever the fuck you were about to do and you die.
The act confused at the question and basically tell you to go home and read theory.
He basically tells you to read theory and do some self critique.