Sometimes I wonder how many “Marxists” really have read Marx.
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Only those that did know that you can't vote away capitalism.
What's that im reference to?
In reference to how socialism will truly come about, Marx literally criticized the kind of thinking that dominates left wing thinking nowadays.
Communism and Marx are objectively left wing, and “left wing thinking” could mean any number of things. Without being specific about what you mean, it’s unfalsifiable.
Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.
There's some interesting discussions to be had of Marx's writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.
What thinking did he criticise so literally?
The DSA has everyone from reformist soc dems, to anarchists, to MLs, to Maoist Third Worldists
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This is so dumb.
If you want change, you have to take power. Power is where the people think it is.
If people can't even realize their own power as workers and unionize, they're not about to rise up in some glorious revolution. And even if they did, the majority would just do capitalism again, because most people can't imagine anything else
But the economic system is collapsing. When it does, we need power. That's how this works. We take local, State, and federal positions and use them to do progressive things, to improve material conditions.
And then when we get to an inflection point, we need leaders who already have the support of the people. We need populist progressives in power
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