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Reading the Communist Manifesto, and realizing it wasn't the evil text dripping with bloodlust I was told but one of the most reasonable things I'd read, is what made me consider looking into leftism more seriously. @comradejoma/1305357386899750912Permalink On twitter.com
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Still, the text itself is kind of bad at figuring out what communism is. It calls for the communist party to seize the state and social programs that haven't existed in almost 200 years, a move that Marx would later distance himself from...Permalink On twitter.com
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...when he saw the stateless nature of the Paris Commune. We should interrogate the idea that dense political texts from over a century ago are the best way to learn the basics of communism anyway.Permalink On twitter.com
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I mean we were all indoctrinated with the reasons why capitalism is supposedly good, right? Did your 8th grade civics teacher have you read The Wealth of Nations cover to cover? Or did he give you the cliffnotes and have you fill out a worksheet?On twitter.com