Tbf a lot of people just want a petty bourgeois vacation.
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This statement has always been crazy to me. Even when I wasn't a Communist I didn't really understand this, since for the overwhelming majority of human history, we didn't even have Capitalism... Capitalism is around 400 years old, meanwhile recorded history is around 6000 years old.
And I'm not even applying materialism here, this was when I was a lib lmao
If you question people who say this they will say “sure we didn’t call it capitalism but people were trading and selling to become richer since forever!”. And you try to explain that markets =/= capitalism and you see their eyes glass over and their brains shutdown.
We say libs don’t know anything about communism, but they will die on a hill to defend capitalism and they know nothing about it either.
The burden of marxists is that we understand our opponents positions and our own, but they don’t understand either.
Agreed.
I maintain that Marxists are better at playing the game of capitalism than "capitalists".
Was reading some of Engels letters about the stock market earlier lol
Libs don’t know what capitalism is, and they haven’t thought it through. “I think there were markets in Rome and markets = capitalism.” “I feel like it’s in my nature to be selfish, so it must have always been like this.”
People who genuinely believe that have to be misanthropes.
Yeah. People are also just really confused right now, and don’t seem to think through things politically.
I think it also comes down to a lot of them simply not wanting to talk about politics or engaging with political content. Some just feel drained and mistreated by the system and just want to try to live a happy life. The depression epidemic is a real thing