Tbh I feel like that’s an unfair generalization. Amongst the sea of opportunists there are real communists such as myself who show up to combat liberalism and connect with other revolutionaries. I see it as a platform to promote theory, do mutual aid, and network with people. We need to be available to answer questions when reformism inevitably leaves them disillusioned.

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lol I’m a Hoxhaist so I agree with that sentiment. This post is more so about Marxist solidarity against liberal slander specifically. “Tankie this” “authoritarian that” “book club, etc.”. Theoretically based criticisms are always welcome, don’t get me wrong.

The sections on working conditions were sobering, I had many feelings. They read to me almost like a warning. In Ch.10 Marx quoted Horace when speaking to the then American readers “It is of you that the story is told”. At the time it was a direct truth, now it is a harbinger. There ought to be a black book of capitalism. Imperialism only imports the suffering of yesteryear for NA-Europe where the trauma is well contained in the commodities to fit the bill for the old reaper of scarcity.

“So you see I was banging a local bourgeoisie at church”