“We need capitalists because they have all the money”
Where exactly do they get the money from? Their own work? Of course not!
“I can’t get a job because of migrants!”
Employers are the ones who decide who gets a job or not. Blame them, not the immigrants they’re exploiting.
“I don’t want my tax money to go to bums/single mothers/immigrants/xyz group”
But you’re fine with bourgeois parasites freely taking a portion of your labour to enrich themselves?
“Full employment/universal healthcare/eradication of homelessness/cheap transport/anything good is impossible!”
No they aren’t.
“Capitalism isn’t perfect, but gommunism is le hecking evil!”
No it isn’t.
Was more of a vent post than anything. I don’t feel like an enemy of the people, an enemy would want what’s worst for them, to the contrary I want what’s best for all of us. I don’t expect people to be automatically Marxist either, that would be commandist of me. But it grinds my gears how closed minded people are to class consciousness; it seems as if they are impervious to it.
But all this only emphasises the importance of a vanguard, and kills the idea of spontaneity. It seems that no matter how severely capitalism harms a person, it doesn’t mean they’re open to Marxist ideas; there’s no tipping point where conditions will be bad enough that people will automatically do a socialist revolution.
It is frustrating af. Working class people are allergic to class consciousness. And if they get there from an emotional gateway, only a minority of them will actually follow through to learning theory and understanding imperialism. This is how you get self-described “socialists” in the US stanning Kamala and punching to their left.
The only way is through earning their confidence, and that is a hard thing to do, but is where we must put our effort of investigation, it does not matter if we have the best revolutionary project, which is a matter heatedly debated among the various lines of Marxism, if none of us can reach the people, the important part for now is figuring out how to cut through nearly a century of propaganda, and then we figure out where we go, this is the hard task at hand for today
Yeah that is for sure, the spontaneous view is deeply mistaken indeed, and it makes me happy to know that it was mostly a vent, but I need to caution you comrade that it does not necessarily reads as such and there are more than a few so called comrades that do harbor resentment to the people, and they can find validation in such posts, so I felt necessary, and hopefully informative to some to respond like that.