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Infrequent poster, but if we're complaining about Hexbear culture is that there are often leaks in personalities here - I among the guilty - that treat socialism, writers, and world events as avenues for self-actualization that put me off.
The socialister-than-thou posts, for its own sake and not when dunking on reactionaries, I mean.
Yes, folks who base their entire personality on one specific brand of socialism based on one book written in 1993 by someone nobody has ever heard of but is apparently THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIALIST WRITER IN HISTORY are problematic and need to stop
Really? The website just seems like a fanclub for the standard figures of western marxism and then capitalist realism etcetera. You see this same group of french philosophers promoted in almost every western left space from tumblr to twitter to group chats like tg/discord
Is there anything you're thinking of in particular there?
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I agree with this take. I've heard from some online commentators that this is a trend that affects social media in general and considerably inhibits collaboration on any project, including leftists trying to discuss building socialism in the current political landscape. Leftists in general should develop a strategy to deal with this phenomenon.