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  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    One thing I often think about is that many people feel dejected from a system because they don’t even get the bare minimum rewards they’re told they will get if they participate. The American dream specifically is one of those things that you’re told that if you do what you’re supposed to do. You are entitled to a certain package of goods and services and even a little of status.

    I genuinely truly believe that a significant amount of new leftists (young and old, black and white, and all the other cliché binaries) simply choose leftist thought because it at very least offers them a truth. An often unpleasant truth, but in a world of lies, it is something of value. Also a true that makes sense on its face and makes more sense the deeper you engage with it.

    Leftist thought (just about any leftist -ism) offers an understanding of reality and a possible future. the American dream sells a false past that you can never obtain, and to be more honest its obtainment was at the cost of others not getting it as well.

    I also genuinely truly believe that if the American dream were more obtainable, a good amount of people would remain in the neoliberal quadrant. of course neoliberalism can’t deliver this goods and services because it’s built on a lie, and because of that I blame them for creating the conditions of their downfall. I hate the conservative, and I loathe the neoliberal.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Can confirm anecdotally, leftist thought makes actual sense to me and has real solutions to problems that make liberals, neocons and others babble incoherently about the econimal or w/e.

      Lib explaining why not everyone is allowed to have homes: morshupls

      Marxist analysis (and all the lil Marxist successor schools of thought) seem to be the only analysis that makes any kind of sense. It’s like lifting the veil, or putting on the shades, glasses-on it’s horrible and touching grass hurts now cause western “society” is so fucked, but it’s better to know than just live in a vague fog of “shit sucks”. At least I know there are potential solutions now, xi-plz

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        Marxist analysis (and all the lil Marxist successor schools of thought) seem to be the only analysis that makes any kind of sense. It’s like lifting the veil, or putting on the shades, it’s horrible

        Exactly! You feel me

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    The Dream™ was something thought up by marketing people on fifth avenue and sold to an extremely small subset of white wealthy suburban veterans returning from wwii and their boomer children. It wasn’t and still isn’t a thing for the vast majority of america but we allow this old bullshit to shape what people think murica is, hence why we get immigrants that come here thinking it’s white picket fences and bbqs when in reality it’s living in a tent and probably getting shot by some racist retiree hopped up on fox news.

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Oh yeah, figured that out a little late, wish I knew growing up, even more unlikely when you’re deemed too many minorities. At least now I realize its no fault of my own, nor anyone else that struggles for even simple survival.