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Fuckin yep. There's only so many times people are willing to put up with certain cadres being absolute assholes, writing huge debatebro posts about how you're wrong about every detail and wherever you're right you shouldn't say it, and how you're a reactionary anticommunist westoid before it just isn't worth it anymore.
People who have the "correct position" have a lot of license to behave poorly here, and it sucks.
This isn't even to touch on the feeding frenzy when someone whose home instance isn't here isn't exceptionally careful with everything they say.
This is a big reason why I don't post a lot of responses to some positions I disagree with. Even though I only mean to be constructive, I don't want to attract that kind of attention nonetheless.
I just want to discuss this stuff in peace in hopes that we make lots of progress towards understanding how to apply Marx in the conditions of our ongoing 21st century polycrisis. The fact that I don't necessarily believe that communism is inevitable makes that a bit more pressing when I think about it. I guess I get it from listening to a lot of Marxist commentators who many would call pessimistic when they hear them evaluate the Left's current situation. It's from there that I guess I sometimes describe us here as being a bit too optimistic at times.