• Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Put it that way you’re not wrong but:

    I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain’t gonna happen.

    Reading theory should always be encouraged but like it or not: any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Precisely why everyone should be encouraged to read theory, even if not everyone actually ends up doing it. The more people who have actually read theory, the more people can get away with having read the summary

      As an English teacher, trust me when I say that no one is less under the illusion that everyone will do the assigned reading than me

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      8 months ago

      I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain’t gonna happen.

      No one is demanding that from anybody. They’re just demanding that people stop jerking off and throwing away their life and money to e-celebs who talk to a camera for a living and maybe read a book. Any book.

      any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

      Ok? Then tell the ecelebs to actually make good cliff notes