Call yourself and communist. Radlibs have really weakens the term socialist, they’ll assume Bernie Sanders at best. Call yourself a communist cause as I’ve been stating in this thread already, that leads to follow up questions. If you say youre a socialist to a co-worker or other normal person they’ll say ‘oh, okay’. If you say youre a communist you’ll have to answer the quiz everyone gives someone who says theyre a communist so learn to dispel that nonsense and then you hage a productive conversation where you get yonrxplain why you’re a communist. Being a cool and reasonable person while people around you know you’re a commie is a wee bit of praxis
Yeah I agree with you there but I don’t think any communists really ever say they’re progressives outside of electoralism. What I want to do is get the liberal-left to stop using progressive too, or at least to label themselves as liberal-left in order to put it into people’s minds that the existing shit bags are the right and open up the field to the left of them more.
There is no way of stopping that from happening and those terms will therefore feel more and more meaningless as time goes by. We don’t need to reclaim these terms. We can just let them be taken by the libs to die in the dust of history. If liberals are claiming a radical term that means its a great to claim the more radical term. If ‘progressive’ becomes a meaningless liberal buzzword, let it be one. Take advantage of it.
Call yourself and communist. Radlibs have really weakens the term socialist, they’ll assume Bernie Sanders at best. Call yourself a communist cause as I’ve been stating in this thread already, that leads to follow up questions. If you say youre a socialist to a co-worker or other normal person they’ll say ‘oh, okay’. If you say youre a communist you’ll have to answer the quiz everyone gives someone who says theyre a communist so learn to dispel that nonsense and then you hage a productive conversation where you get yonrxplain why you’re a communist. Being a cool and reasonable person while people around you know you’re a commie is a wee bit of praxis
Yeah I agree with you there but I don’t think any communists really ever say they’re progressives outside of electoralism. What I want to do is get the liberal-left to stop using progressive too, or at least to label themselves as liberal-left in order to put it into people’s minds that the existing shit bags are the right and open up the field to the left of them more.
There is no way of stopping that from happening and those terms will therefore feel more and more meaningless as time goes by. We don’t need to reclaim these terms. We can just let them be taken by the libs to die in the dust of history. If liberals are claiming a radical term that means its a great to claim the more radical term. If ‘progressive’ becomes a meaningless liberal buzzword, let it be one. Take advantage of it.