And I use “normal” in scare quotes, because, according to whom, exactly, capitalism? Society? Yourself? Some of the “weirdest” people I’ve met in my life where also some of the nicest and actually helped me out. People you’d peg as “normal”? Well I’ve had my fair share of shit with them. I’m not about to put up with some reddit lord trying to score points with cool kid podcasters by throwing people who feed the homeless under the bus, fuck you very much.
That’s why the “revolting against it” part is important and what I distinguished from “normative participation.” Trying to say beyond that that one “isn’t really a communist” because they live in the imperial core or whatever is, ironically enough, more like a theological stance than a useful assessment of someone.
I get what you mean. My understanding was just that if you live under a capitalist system you are definitionally a capitalist subject. Maybe semantics on my end