a big ”gotcha” moment reactionaries have against communism is that some communists are relatively well off and have some wealth to our name.

however, i find that the poorest in society dont have any energy to study theory and look at the world in certain ways.

i know that this was true for me. i used to be quite poor earlier in my life and money was scarce.

during this time, i used to spend the money i did have on stupid consumerist things. however, when i actually had a stable income, i found that i didnt want as many things (because i could always buy them)

furthermore, i used to fetishize the 1st world and a big goal of mine was to move to a 1st world country thinking they were ”better”. after my financial situation improved i was able to see that life isnt actually better over there and most their better conditions are because they still engage in neocolonialism and steal resources from the global south.

the way i looked at things changed a lot and i eventually stopped being a liberal.

many reactionaries like to say ”how can you be a communist when you have fancy things?” but being poor was such a psychologically taxing experience that i couldnt look at things from a rational perspective at all

i think this is why the united states keeps their population poor and in constant debt. they accuse north korea of actively harming their own population to keep them from revolting but i think its actually them who do this.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 个月前

    Either way you can’t win. If you’re well off and a communist you’re a hypocrite and how dare you have nice things and why don’t you give your wealth away. If you’re poor and you’re a communist you’re just envious and/or lazy and you’re just bitter others are more successful.

    It is true however that people who are in constant survival mode have less time to learn, analyze and question their circumstances.

    being poor was such a psychologically taxing experience that i couldnt look at things from a rational perspective at all. i think this is why the united states keeps their population poor and in constant debt.

    No doubt this is part of it. Keep people so busy and exhausted that they don’t even have the energy to think about rebelling or demanding something different. Being in perpetual debt is like being in chains.

    And what is even more pernicious is how the system uses that desperation to turn people against each other, to see fellow workers as their direct competition. This is a huge suppressor of class consciousness, when everyone at the bottom are just fighting each other for scraps and desperately clawing to get higher up the ladder.