I mean there is other media that could lead you to a materialist analysis of the mode of production and I would argue that for many comrades these times they first educate themselves via social media and start reading once they are largely ideologically aligned.
Oh, yeah sure. It depends on the social medium I guess. Long form YouTube content should definetly work, not sure if something like twitter actually allows content to be in depth enough to get a understanding of anything. I thought you meant with your original comment people that like the communist goal (communism) and generally support the actions/programms of communist movements, but haven’t actually informed themselves on materialism and the underlying contradictions of captalism.
Yeah hour long essays about the UdSSR and socialism was the pipeline that brought me here. I knew “tankies” were on hexbear but my understanding changed before I dared to come here and take up reading “black magic books”.
I mean there is other media that could lead you to a materialist analysis of the mode of production and I would argue that for many comrades these times they first educate themselves via social media and start reading once they are largely ideologically aligned.
Oh, yeah sure. It depends on the social medium I guess. Long form YouTube content should definetly work, not sure if something like twitter actually allows content to be in depth enough to get a understanding of anything. I thought you meant with your original comment people that like the communist goal (communism) and generally support the actions/programms of communist movements, but haven’t actually informed themselves on materialism and the underlying contradictions of captalism.
Yeah hour long essays about the UdSSR and socialism was the pipeline that brought me here. I knew “tankies” were on hexbear but my understanding changed before I dared to come here and take up reading “black magic books”.
I misread the last sentence and thought you said you read the black book as in:
I think I had my fill of CIA propaganda for a lifetime so no thanks 😂. For the sake of argument surely not a bad thing tho.