>>2904812I try to be the former. I consider myself to be an authentic scientific socialist and follow the data where it leads and it does not lead to LARPing as though the Cultural Revolution never ended or that the goal of communism is establishing a thousand "decolonized" ethnically homogeneous Democratic Kampucheas.
>If it’s the second, have you considered that working people don’t listen to you not because they’re inherently hostile to leftism or because they’re “treatlers,” but because your ideas betray your contempt? And that you’re actually a liability to socialism by getting people to associate it with neurotic contrarians?When you realize that a lot of leftoidism is driven by would-be elites that feel jilted by capitalism, it all makes sense. Really, I don't think most leftoids hate capitalism all that much, only that they were on the wrong side of it. If they had the opportunity to flip the script and put themselves at the top, the "treatlerites" at the bottom but change nothing else, they'd do it.