Being decently read in both Anarchist and Marxist schools of thought is really funny, because of how much shit people from both schools of thought clearly haven't read outside of that school of thought. Like I've seen both anarchists and Marxists say shit that's blatantly not true about each others theory because I think people don't like reading things they might potentially disagree with. I actually read anti-socialist texts from time to time, because I generally like to keep an open mind about such things, i feel like people get so absorbed into one of way of thinking that it just leads to thought termination. Also being actually exposed to ideas you disagree with helps you better formulate your disagreements with said ideas and to actually better critique them. Any thoughts I guess, I'm not shit talking the tendencies by the way more the behavior of certain individuals within them.
>>2838784>I think people don't like reading things they might potentially disagree withyeah most people are intellectually cowards like this
Yes but it is worth pointing out the aged phases of this too.
For example what you say reminds me of the… "discourse" you see on communities like Deprogram subeddit, but that also has a clear bias towards the very young and recently initiated. They simply haven't had time to read more than an individual few number of works, if any at all in full, relying on hunches, memes, summaries, guesstimations, wikipedia, LLM responses for a lot of their "views" so far.
It's up to the older among us, I'd say anyone past 25 y/o, to intervene without as much condescension as is sometimes observable and actually be informative in a dialectical way about the misinfo haze they find themselves in.
Among the hardest struggles personally is to 1. discard the pb "read a book stupid" mentality that chans have fostered in me and in addition to actually systematize referencing and sourcing. For the longest time I just read books willy nilly and tried store this shit in memory, approximally verbalize "the gist" to those that dont know. I've come to learn how inefficient that is due to the sheer depth of younger people's theoretical illiteracy, a consequence of AI-powered social media evolution compromizing them dopaminergically to petty bourg "left" populist grifters.
The solution is never read anything by, just do
"who could've thought he'd become a fascist"
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