Marx was just another YA fiction writer when you get down to it. Ahead of his time, sure, but he has nothing on Rowling.
edit since I’m not a lib: https://hexbear.net/comment/3829895
Marx was just another YA fiction writer when you get down to it. Ahead of his time, sure, but he has nothing on Rowling.
edit since I’m not a lib: https://hexbear.net/comment/3829895
There’s this reactionary trope that Communism is just something teenagers who have never had real jobs are into, that somehow the basement-dwelling adolescents of the imperial core petit bourgeois are able to easily blaze through all The Manifesto, Grundrisse, Anti-Duhring, German ideology, All 3 volumes of Das Kapital, All 3 volumes of Theories of Surplus Value, etc. etc. etc. before they’re old enough to drink, and then after getting an associates degree abandon it because they learned to adult… it’s patently absurd. If anything the type of people in question don’t even begin to question liberalism until they’re well into their 20s and sufficiently addled with student loan debt and long hours and a bleaker future than their parents.
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Never understood the basement-dwelling trope
I’m an employed basement-dweller living with my parents saving money on rent. But wait that doesn’t track because my parents didn’t buy me a place.
So even though I’m saving money and avoiding avocado toast and frivolous purchases, I’m still a mooch and failure according to capitalists because I don’t have my own property and should’ve better invested my money when I was 18.
Damned if you do damned if you don’t if you’re a commie
Yeah that’s basically the long and short of it. I grew up in apartments in a place that’s too low to the sea level for basements, so I never got to be basement dweller, lol. Also I had to move out when I was really young. I was raised by my grandparents and they were running out of money and needed to move into a smaller apartment. I would have spent my college years on their couch without a bedroom of my own if I hadn’t moved out. The total lack of privacy during the formative years of my early adult hood would have driven me crazy, so I’m glad I did it even though it resulted in me coming close to total destitution a few times.
Aside from the value in dismissing left ideology and “explaining” why boomers are like they are, the kernel of truth is that in a society in which communists were destroyed, it’s the young who still radicalize en masse - being generous with the term radicalize, as this includes the largely liberal university experience.