if you do then guide me.
I have lib friends that I have consistently failed to convert even into Soc Dem over the years despite that I have turned Tankie myself. Sigh
They are all worker aristocrats that fancies themselves “white-collar middle class”. (We being in Hong Kong with a very recent history of western propaganda fanning the flames of local supremacy against China probably has a lot to do with it.)
What’s the sentiment in HK like now by the way? Has it changed much?
The local supremacists have entered a doomer phase which they gave up hope of “independence”, but many still retained vitrol and a bigotted idea that the mainland Chinese are somehow still “inferior” to them. Now they simply shut up about it until they get triggered like post civil war Southen whites in America.
Most of them have migrated away in 2022 to England or America, only to find themselves being fed lies about how great it would be their entire lives, and some have returned quietly after living there proved difficult.
(Particularly with how Starmer is screwing them with changing rules about British citizenship to appease his local xenophobes, ironically enough.)
However, the number of children that are proficient with Puthonghua and Mainland Chinese culture is increasing as a whole lot of online entertainment now comes from China, so in the long view Hong Kong is integrating properly into China as post coldwar propaganda loses its relevance with how shitty the American Empire is conducting itself.Thanks! I grew up watching a lot of TVB here in Australia and recall a lot of the dramas showing Chinese pride (especially the costume dramas set in Guangzhou). Hope more HKers are waking up to reality as the West shows time and time again who they really are.
They’ll have to face it sooner or later - the Mainland is becoming way more advanced and honestly, it’s way more fun there!However, the number of children that are proficient with Puthonghua and Mainland Chinese culture is increasing as a whole lot of online entertainment now comes from China, so in the long view Hong Kong is integrating properly into China as post coldwar propaganda loses its relevance with how shitty the American Empire is conducting itself.
China playing for the long game pays off.
The same is inevitable for Taiwan.
I think I got extremely lucky where my friend group of 5 from high school kind of all moved more left as time passed.
Yep, all my close friends are either organized communists or at the minimum agree with 90% of my takes I’m very lucky. Most of them I met organizing. I also hang out with non commies ofc but I couldn’t imagine not having the freedom of loudly praising Stalin without having to justify myself on a regular basis.
Yup, a few of my friends became communists. The big factor for them was that liberal world view just couldn’t explain what they were seeing anymore. Introducing them to material dialectics all of a sudden made things click for them.
I have a bunch of communist friends and I’ve made some new ones online through the irl ones that I have visited and done a little organizing with
My own husband. When you listen to enough Joti Brar, Vijay Prashad, and great geopolitical shows like Dialogue Works and Neutrality Studies, you inevitably find that the Marxist explanation of the world makes the most sense and is the most consistent. Wouldn’t really label either me or him as Marxists yet but we’re learning.
Get into a socialist organisation if you can, that’s an easy way to forge lifelong friendships.
I have many leftist friends, most are anarchists though. I’m slowly introducing them to more Marxist concepts and about their own anticommunist indoctrination. Hopefully eventually we’ll all be highly educated Marxist-Leninists.
Two of my friends are left-leaning. One is a staunch Maoist while the other is a patsucc (not NazBol or ACP).
Nope. Buy I’m planting seeds.
I’m lucky enough to have two people close to me who are commies despite living in a deeply reactionary hellhole. Not much I can do to guide here because both were chance encounters at work and a music event and we just had the thing where neurodivergent people instantly click with each other rather than anything politics related.
I also know a few liberals that have been steadily radicalizing over the past few years. If people already know and trust you and the first cracks in the liberal worldview happen organically they can be quite receptive to communist ideas. Just listen to their grievances and chime in with bits of history and theory that is relevant to them. Nobody became a principled communist overnight, it’s a long process and sometimes you need to pick your battles and smile and dissociate when they slip into reactionary thought that you don’t have a good angle to attack yet, but I got people immersed in a deeply russophobic and anticommunist environment to consider that maybe the Soviet Union was… le good? Or at least not evil incarnate 1984.
Be cool, be open about your ideals without forcing them, know your stuff so that you can speak confidently and source your claims, be patient, and meet people where they are and you may be able to commie your friends but they have to take the first steps on their own.
i’m not a person with “friends” in the strict definition, but i try to get along in most cases with people, so there’s that…usually i discuss with people, talk in fediverse with leftist people, and try to fight against propaganda. here and the element groups are the places where i try to get some communist friends without the risk of having a date with a fed
Would you consider leaving the country brother 🥺 it is nice here
I have no friends. I’m socially phobic and agoraphobic.
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Nope too busy with school. Will try to join an org later on though.
