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Over the past few years, I've been sliding left ideologically, and as I move further left my old positions seem cringy.

That's expected when you change your worldview and realize you were parroting (e.g.) CIA propaganda, but it's left me feeling a bit ungrounded. I'm worried that in another year I'll look back and think my current views are dumb. Tbh, they almost certainly are.

Does this go away eventually? Or are y'all constantly refining your understanding, so you always dislike your views from a year ago?


Also:

If folks leave, where do they go from here? Are they just picking their preferred flavor of communism/anarchism? Are there other categories of leftism that they're heading to? I'm sure some backslide, but I mean heading somewhere new - like I didn't know people actually liked DPRK until I heard about "tankies." I saw a group that doesn't believe in objective reality?

I'm not really expecting to look at anything new and not be a Marxist, but I'd like to know what's out there to be sure.


I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

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[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

Well you could create a society where everyone observes, but nobody participates and then be right about things going wrong all the time. An Autopoietic society that inevitably destroys itself, even in the best case scenario it just floats in space repeating the same life over and over again until the end of history.

Marxism is based on Dialectics or specifically Dialectical Materialism. You don't need to follow it I'm not your mom and have no interest in telling you what to do or how to live your life, but if you're interested in learning more about it, revolutionaryth0t made a great little video explaining it, in simple terms. And my toxic trait is not linking it here because I'm too lazy.

I also know that I'm prone to emotional outbursts and I'm really mean spirited, but that allows for me to disengaging from discussions when things get too heated lol

[–] dil@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Her video is already on my list! I should actually get around to watching it...

For anyone else: https://youtu.be/fopyyYbSvuQ

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

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