How many of you have high paying jobs, and how have you prevented your material means and social circles from eroding your leftist convictions? (hexbear.net)

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I am on the precipice of one and don't want that to turn me into a disengaged normies, lib, or chud. I know that a local DSA chapter was financially backed by a person of incredible means, so I wonder what keeps such people left wing or at least SocDem.

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

yeah like how many people striked during 68 and became yuppies just a few years later. fighting the good fight doesn't mean sacrificing just "time and money" it means sacrificing everything the middle-class bourgeois life might offer you instead

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