I'm SICK of these people!!! Just say that you're lazy ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ no one will be mad
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As for the people with learning disorders and such, I don't think we exactly expect them to fight in a revolution?
for starters, treating disabled people as if they are made of sugar is in itself ableist, which is the case of the print in question. learning disorder doesn't mean learning incapacity, they just have to make a extra effort do get it done, the point for socialists should be that we can create the conditions that these people doesn't fell like total shit for not keeping up with a unhealthy competitive society and they will have the necessary support to reach their full potential and have complete and fulfilling lives.
I'm under the impression that there is a spectrum of learning disorders and some of them involve just inability to learn things of certain complexity. I might be mixing something up though.
My point is that, as you said, some people just need the better system. They're not necessarily fit to build it, living as they are in the worse system that denies them survival at times, let alone specialized education and stuff.
my bad, i think i mixed up things, i was thinking about dyslexia and adhd, which difficult studying but not impair logical reasoning as a whole.
Aaactually, apparently I mixed it up, because what I meant would more likely fall under learning and intellectual disabilities.
"Telling people to read is ableist" is a terrible argument in the age of audiobooks, well made agitprop tiktoks and AI summaries (I don't condone the last one I'm just trying to make a point).
The only excuse is being blind, deaf and having no feeling in your fingers. Then I can believe it's ableist. But if you're on bsky then at least one of those isn't true.
It's a terrible argument in general because it's not targeting disabled people when people say to read. It's implied already. Disability can of course look very different on each person but anarchists are making it about themselves. I'm not saying the anarchists saying these things are not disabled themselves, they probably are, but they are also barking up the wrong tree.
The mod of marxistculture sub, bigblindmarx is legally blind themselves and they have built several Marxist Leninist communities that facilitate theory study. There was a few users on the old sub who are color blind. Their current username is quite_largeboi, they founded ModernSocialist.
We came down to the front of the Twelfth Army, back of Riga, where gaunt and bootless men sickened in the mud of desperate trenches; and when they saw us they started up, with their pinched faces and the flesh showing blue through their torn clothing, demanding eagerly, โDid you bring anything to read?โ
- John Reed - The Ten days that shook the world
There are plenty of comrades who have devoted their personal time to create audio books and made them readily available for free. Bro is on to nothing.
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Oh dear Engels!
Call people without a brain while say ableist
Has that chaos magick sign been appropiated by NATO/anti-communist anarchists?
Just your average eightfold path enjoyer
Lmfao fuck yea but I was more so talking about the whole actual chaos magick thing, manifestation stuff n all of that. That usually is the symbol for it, so was curious if the symbol was coopted.
I never even legitly seen eight pointed arrow symbol used outside warhammer (and anarchists i guess but this only recently).
Yeah, I first came about it when I was in my teenage phase of believing in that kinda stuff. Warhammer I believe took it from old magicka and turned it into it's own kinda thing. The anarchist thing is very recent indeed.
I don't know much, but I have seen it in both anarchism and Eurasianism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Chaos
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I think it was also taken by naz-bols
It's funny they screamed reading is hard because I do a little experiment from time to time on my IA account, one day I'd upload anarchist "theory" and the other day I would upload entirely Marxist theory sandwiched in between, so on and on. Anarchist users exclusively read their own shit but they won't touch Marxist books. It proves they lied about reading is hard. Anarchists do things by feeling and have no plan for their future.
I think it's just bad faith, basically.
First, marxist-leninists and those in similar sphere do a lot more than "tell people to read". Second, there are multiple ways to acquire knowledge written in a book. For example, if someone is visually impaired, they can use audio books, provided the resources are made available for them. Information can also be expressed through lectures, seminars, streams, podcasts, etc. Reading groups can help people with denser texts that are hard to understand. Third, disabilities are a real thing that holds people back in various ways and needs accommodation, but luckily, "forcing someone to read" is not necessary in order to get them information and if they are disabled to the point they can't read, trying to force them to isn't going to accomplish anything anyway.
So I'm just one person, but I'm disabled, and i really don't find these posts ableist. there's also discourse around treatler that pops up sometimes, or going to the gym. i do depend on delivery services to get groceries, but again I've never felt targeted by these posts because I get that it doesn't apply to special circumstances like mine.
The thing about idealists, such as anarchists and ultras, is that they believe strongly in "one size fits all" solutions. If a certain policy is correct, it must always be correct. If something is wrong in one context it must be wrong in all contexts. Adaptation, tactical retreats and changes in policy are often viewed as betrayal, as a straying from the purity of the ideology.
Materialists recognize that it is material reality which determines what is and isn't correct. The right course of action depends on the circumstances. Different solutions are right for different people, just like different political and economic strategies are right for different countries and different historical periods.
It's "to each according to their needs", not "to each the exact same as everyone else".
Hmm... I imagine some people with unmedicated ADHD would struggle with reading theory and listening to audiobooks. I don't want to go around telling disabled people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I'd ask for their best effort but it's on us to meet their needs of course.