The fact that the existence of pipelines (kin to the overton window) is taken as a scientific constant exposes the unchallenged idealism in our movements. People need to read Lenin’s work about materialism and Empiro-criticism, it helped me immensely.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Agreed

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a version of those works that can be consumed by 🍔 folks with a 6th grade reading level? Not kidding here... we need more digestible versions of this important theory.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day theory was spread with post-work reading/literary courses, pamphlets, primers, through talking during work time, during strikes.

All that was lost.

I think LunaOi is working on a translation of introductory works of communism based on pre-8th grade vietnamese education.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to make it a personal project to convert some of this content into more digestible chunks for flyers.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Both digital and printed would be a good idea. I think the most important part ought to be that they should evoke powerful imagery.