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I feel like former socialists never believed in socialism that much (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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For former socialists, there's one argument I see them use for why they are not socialist anymore.

That argument is that they felt guilty about wanting to push their ideology onto others and so they started believing in parliamentary politics again where every opinion is valuable. My dad who used to be an anarchist as a teenager used this reasoning, as well as one of my teachers.

But this argument doesn't make sense to me, because it makes politics into something which only revolves around opinions, while we communists and the capitalist class know it's about power.

I feel like these people never learned much about their ideology when they were socialists. I think I will never stop being a communist, I know too much.

Have you seen this reasoning yourself?

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[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 week ago

I don't think its about a strength of belief. I think their material conditions were comfortable, and they realized that in order to actually do a revolution it would require dismantling the systems that currently provide them with comfort, and so they didn't want to do that.

You can categorize this under, "Sure socialism would be nice, but I'm not willing to do anything to actually make it a reality."

This is simply a result of people not wanting to rock the boat, and taking the path of least resistance. Were their material conditions more dire I am sure they would have been a lot less reluctant to take action.