I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

  • Adhriva@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    The proles, especially in the West, often don’t want to read dry, jargon-filled theory unless they are already radicalized. Western socialist publications would be better served through allegory, metaphor, and subtext in fiction—ranging from comics, to fan fic, to short stories, short films, indie games, and other mediums of what gets lumped into “entertainment”—than continuing the focus on more articles on why x’s theory is better. Of all the socialist-friendly publishing I’ve ever come across, none of them has ever had a fiction section. NONE. With no plans or interest in one. I think we’re doing ourselves a great disservice and limiting our reach by not producing and giving greater focus to spreading fictional content that doesn’t adhere to capitalist ideology or its underpinning assumptions about the world.

    • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      I think you need those things as intros to theory. Start with popular culture, or something relatable, before getting to something deeper

    • comradebanan@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      i agree. most people want to live their life and not think about politics. think about how it is now, basically. We absorb capitalist ‘culture’(or lack of, however we want to think of it) through background noise mostly. We pick up stuff from entertainment and from wherever we do frequent: for a lot of us that’s work, and/or school, and possibly ‘online’.

      we should seek to disseminate our ideas through many channels.

      some people are very theory minded and political and like to study texts and apply it to real life situations. that won’t cease to exist because we try to appeal to people in less explicit ways. in my opinion, it will likely increase the amount of studious and politically involved workers just by increasing the amount of people who are being exposed to communist ideas.

      For me it was hearing figures like Tupac or Helen Keller were communist, or pro communist, that made me interested in the first place. I looked into them as figures, then into communism in general.