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"DON'T base your political, social, etc. views on fiction or 'vibes' (in fact, kill the word vibes)." (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To add on: I hate it when people don't have definable ideological throughlines.

I'm not saying you need to have a online brainrot "I'm a Marxist-anti-engels-maoist-Hu Jintaoist-Hoxcaist with Turkish characteristics," but simply having a theoretical backing to what you're talking about.

I'm mainly referring to people here who are basically Marxist, maybe...? Like...I think they are, but they don't dicuss their theory, their marx and their philosophy of praxis. They'll critique things but don't really present how those critiques fit into their dialectical worldview.

A couple examples off the tip of my head would be 1dime, Hasan [don't watch too much, correct me if I'm wrong], and maybs rguably Orwell (idk, he was just vaguely a socialist. I know he liked Catalonia a lot but was he a full fledged anarchist? Idk, thats my point)

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

rguably Orwell (idk, he was just vaguely a socialist. I know he liked Catalonia a lot but was he a full fledged anarchist?

I think he was actually pretty consistent. He thought anarchists were commendable but naive, marxists were evil authoritarians, all proles were fools who needed to be herded, and no one but white British gentlemen could be trusted to lead a truly enlightened socialist project.