Ooh man this one’s gonna piss off a whole lot of people who haven’t read a book in 20 years and don’t otherwise have any information about alternatives to capitalism beyond a vague icky feeling.
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tmw you are trying to build up a leftist meme community over at !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com , so you use lemmy's wacky implementation of crossposts
14Surrounding yourself with radicals of any political ideology is generally a bad idea
Except maybe centrist if its even possible to be radical centrist
7This is an extremely shallow perspective
16Not really. I'd say he sees the modern issues we face better than you. It's an issue of echo chambers. If you concentrate a community only with people who share your ideology, especially radical ideology it just amplifies it within that community and achieves little else.
People begin to believe that their worldview is the dominant one, because they're entirely unopposed in their thinking. They are never challenged on any major belief, so the discourse is almost pointless and just spends its time running around the edges of difference.
It also breeds laziness, because you never have to defend your position. Mostly just ends up as communities that share memes with eachother which I shouldn't need to point out is pretty pointless.
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This presuposses that your concept for "centrist" is accurate. Which can really only be understood by critically examining the available set of ideologies and making up your own mind
10I'd rather learn from Angela Davis, Marsha P Johnson, Judith Butler, and their peers than from whatever "radical centrism" is.
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Please don't bring that shit here. Just keep to lemmygrad dude.
Marxism is a deeply flawed ideology. I recommend reading Karl Poppers writings about marx to understand how fucked it really is.
-8You're gonna have to explain a little more about this because on its face I don't see why I should read what a specialist in the philosophy of science has to say about an ideology based on a historical and sociological analysis of the world. They're totally different spheres.
Plus, Marxism is not the entire left, and there's a whole world of thought out there that very likely covers whatever issues you're thinking of.
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