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DeathToZionazis"m" ( bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

I propose a secondary meaning for RTFM, Read The Fucking Marx

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I propose a secondary meaning for RTFM, Read The Fucking Marx

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DeathToZionazis"m" ( bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • djcas9 ( djcas9@feed.djcas9.com ) 
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    Ah, I remember my 20’s.

    • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Liberals and baseless condescension, name a better duo. Forget that the overwhelming majority of practicing Marxists are working adults, the stereotypical minority of Marxists as represented by well-meaning college students is somehow more relevant.

      • djcas9 ( djcas9@feed.djcas9.com ) 
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        Not in my experience. Please, continue to tell me my reality.

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          Your anecdotal, presumably western experience doesn’t outweigh the fact that by far the largest number of practicing Marxists are working adults. The CPC alone has 96 million members, and the vast majority of Marxists overall are in the global south. Even then, in parties like PSL and FRSO, membership trends to working adults onwards. Genuinely, do you presume reality perfectly reflects the random chance that your individual myopic experience would imply, in all cases?

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            "Your anecdotal, presumably western experience "… I’m Russian. smh.

            • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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              I said “presumably” because I figured it wasn’t a sure bet, not because I required it to be true for my point. Support for the Soviet Union is higher among older generations, while KPRF membership is surging even among younger people. Again, the CPC has 96 million members, and working class orgs tend to be filled with those that work! Who woulda thought?

              Again, though, you just have this entirely unearned smugness, and no actual point to back it up other than personally knowing Marxists in their 20s. That isn’t a substitute for data and statistics, if you simply extrapolate your personal anecdotes for everything and refuse to believe hard data, then going through life must be a nightmare.

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              Everything you have said is presumptuous. It;s your signature temperature.

              • Cowbee [he/they] ( Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 
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                The only thing I presumed was that you were western, as you had a viewpoint very common to westerners. Everything else was based on reality. Or are you trying to say, for example, that the CPC doesn’t have 100.4 million members as of 2024?

        • BrainInABox ( BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ) 
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          Says you, having just told everyone that they’re in their twenties regardless of the actual reality of their age

    • SpookyBogMonster ( SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Yep, just a bunch of guys in their 20s…

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