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How do we get people to read theory? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Hyper_red@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I feel like anti-intelectualism has won. People can be given free audiobooks, the physical book, etc but they refuse to read because they view reading theory as bad or some bullshit. I have a friend and she thinks "its posh" to read theory. It seems like everyone has fallen for the propaganda that the only people who read theory are rich white college students. It fucking pisses me off.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i do think there is something to be said about not banging on about contradictions, it's dialectical, negations of negations, you have to be able to explain theory in normal language, but like you have to understand something to simplify it.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's a vast difference between doing what Moissaye Olgin and Gus Hall did in their times with colloquializing Marxist theory into shop floor talk and and doing the capitalists work of robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance as Lenin describes in the very first paragraph of his titular work "State and Revolution"