Pretty much. It's always better to read the original work and see what's actually being said within the context and forming a coherent materialist view, rather than making yourself open to manipulation via being told what to believe, leaving out information (which is unavoidable for abridged marxism) that might be inconvenient for subsequent narrativization and so on.
Watching youtube vids/podcasts isn't a replacement for reading tbh, most who do this turn into retarded pseud MLoids who just parrot shit without actually understanding what they're saying, and most of the youtube scene is dominated by those types.
It doesn't matter if a country is authoritarian or democratic, every bourgeois nation state currently in the existence partakes in brutalization of proles and furthering the interests of capital.
Put all of the countries in there, workers have no nation.
Look, I get that you're quite young and probably still trying to understand how the world works, but your revolutionary idea is what these companies have more or less been pushing themselves. I could make a few walls of text for sure on why this is dumb, but just look up what greenwashing is, fossil fuel industry campaigns of advertising solar power and their solutions, and how the concept of individual action to bring about change is just garbage that has been actively spouted and weaponized by corporations (e.g. the anti-pollution craze where to solve climate change and widespread pollution crisis was to just "recycle more" and "drive cars less" while they kept polluting at industrial scale).
Damn, critical support to Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Tesla, Google and Apple then for promoting and sometimes manufacturing home solar solutions. Truly the most revolutionary of companies!
Social medias hate this kind of answer, but if the goal is change then pretty much yeah. There's just nothing to be done by regular people in this kind of situation and conditions, it's all up to bourgeois infighting and the next election cycle.
Yeah, "fascism" will be fought via same means breast cancer was fought - by spreading awareness.
Also you do realize that literally every nation state is partaking in brutalization of proles in one way or another, right? Some do it with a fountain pen, some do it with assault rifles, others aren't stingy and utilize both. The only time they'll come is when it's in the material interests of that nation state's bourgeois, then they'll be sure to crown themselves as liberators and moral heroes like so many times in the past.
Going to protests holding up "if Kamala was elected we'd be at a brunch" signs or wearing a frog costume and hitting fortnite dances and calling it resistance is beyond insulting to proles being brutalized by the regime aka actual victims and probably the most out of touch with reality thing ever.
Conversely, calling for crime and activism and violence purely for the sake of it (because it's epic rebellion), a liberal armed uprising that literally nobody is going to join (including the initiator) is also up there in retardation, but this is mostly being advocated for by kids or students so this is to be expected.
The obsession libs and leftists have with "doing something" is so fucking funny, it doesn't matter if the action in question accomplishes nothing or is straight up counterproductive, all that matters is that you "did something".
Gee whiz, I love it when an institute that's being funded directly by capital interests regurgitates popular liberal narratives and calls it "groundbreaking research".
It sure is very convenient that it's always the fault of some evil nation state or evil individualized billionaires instead of being tendency of capital, a way to manage rising crisis of profitability for one example.
Pretty much. It's always better to read the original work and see what's actually being said within the context and forming a coherent materialist view, rather than making yourself open to manipulation via being told what to believe, leaving out information (which is unavoidable for abridged marxism) that might be inconvenient for subsequent narrativization and so on.