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?

  • BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    Similarly, I’ve heard the whole

    You’ll grow out of it.

    and

    I was also a socialist when I was your age.

    Basically treated like a phase.

    Edit:

    But I’m trying to read and understand more beyond just the podcasts and YouTube videos by The Deprogram or Diego Ruzzarin