Getting tired of the American century of humiliation.
I’m aware this country is a shithole. I live here. I dont need you to tell me that.
I can’t wait till I’m in Europe making a fat check creating life saving medication and getting my dick sucked by a cute boy.
But wait, would that make me Bourgeois?
Where do you draw the line? When that middle manager banker got stabbed to death we were all heehee haha-ing, where is the line drawn? Am I still a prole?
A hundred years ago, we were reading the Manifesto and Conquest of Bread out loud on the workshop floor for all the illiterate workers to hear.
Today, ya can’t even get anyone on this godforsaken website to read a one paragraph Red Sails article.
How many dozens of times have we had a 100+ comment post filled with people incorrectly arguing about foundational stuff that’s clearly laid out the first 5 pages of the Manifesto?
How to get the working class engages and educated as to their position and power is something people always struggled with but it is a little bleak that a lot of the success was in a time when many people couldn’t read or afford books. Yet now people carrying powerful omnidevices around that can literally read them to you seem to struggle harder.
Politics isn’t some fucking aesthetic, it is a body of social behaviours happening all around you that you actively participate it whether you want to or not. It is absolutely appalling how disengaged and self-disempowering people are. Our oppressors rely on us willingly shackling ourselves, there are not enough gaolers in this shithole to keep us in line if we just decide to work together!
Maybe we need to start putting people on timeout until they demonstrate that they’ve actually read the Manifesto in full?
Maybe a badge for participating in a regular book club or something. Idk what lemmy supports.