• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The problem is that if your political world view requires actual study in order to understand and promote, you’re never going to get anywhere when it comes to affecting real change.

    Two war-torn feudal backwaters transformed themselves into spacefaring superpowers in the span of a single human lifetime. History has shown that mass political education is possible and effective. I mean hell, we all have to be instructed as kids about the dangers of fire, and that works. I don’t believe that educating people in Marxism is some sisyphean task, I think I can and has been done.

    • Liz
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      01 year ago

      Do you control the public education system? Because until you do, you have to work with the educational background of the population you’re given, not the one you want.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        01 year ago

        If many millions of actual illiterate peasants who grew up with no school system at all can do it multiple times on different continents, it can absolutely be done here.

      • davel [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Obviously you do, and obviously the Bolsheviks and Maoists and the Cuban communists successfully did.