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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess so, if there were to be a socialist revolution right now, I'd probably be in support, but it doesn't mean I'd think it was necessary. I'm a progressive and i don't necessarily oppose radical overhaul, i just think reform is satisfactory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I appreciate the engagement! Sorry for any criticisms, I'm just trying to lay out a perspective that is based in Marxism but not like prejudicial against liberals (which Marx and Engels weren't even if many of their followers are).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't worry about it. You were pretty respectful compared to some others i conversed with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm in DSA. As a communist in a group with a lot of social democratic progressives, we have to learn to work together!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Damn... DSA is a big thing. Respect to you for getting your hands dirty with politics. I wish more realised that you don't win over opponents by trying to be ideologically pure but by trying to accommodate multiple ideologies and finding common ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Intellectual differences stand out, and political discourse is just terrible as a rule. Thank you, I appreciate the sentiment as I work very hard to draw these ideas together. I'm just a regular worker, but political marxism provides opportunities for functioning on a very high level intellectually, and collaborate with very smart people, because we are committed to the work of it. That's all power is really, just peoples labor captured in various forms, and having the ability to use them to achieve our best interests. And the best interest of the working class is solidarity.

And that's why I try not to be idealist about these differences, its the work that matters most!