How many of you have high paying jobs, and how have you prevented your material means and social circles from eroding your leftist convictions?
How many of you have high paying jobs, and how have you prevented your material means and social circles from eroding your leftist convictions?
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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Your personal conditions won't affect the superstructure of capitalism. Once you break free of the propaganda machine and see the demon for what it is, there's no going back.
I don't think that's true, unfortunately. A lot of people will acknowledge all sorts of injustices, but then they get to this choice:
- Try to do something about it, despite no clear path, a ton of failed attempts before you, and the knowledge that any serious effort will require sacrificing time and money, or maybe even more. Or,
- Fire up that grill, baby, and try to enjoy what you can in life.
And choose Option 2.
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
Sure but unless you're a soulless freak like buttigieg you still see it, and when people fight against it, you provide support or at the very least shut up and get out of the way. You're not gonna be out there voting for Biden or whatever.
Also you can provide material support to folks which imo is one of the best forms of praxis there is.
Yeah, it's good to highlight ways people can help (or at least get out of the way) that don't require as much of a commitment. Because not everyone is fully committed, at least not at first, and doing a little can lead to doing more.
I wish, but look at all the 'back to normal' "leftists" out there.