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Communism is like an eldrich abomination that shows you the truth of the universe and drives you mad from the revelation
(hexbear.net)
I find it hard to bring people to communism because telling them the truth of our system most often leads them to a doom spiral where fighting back against capitalism seems impossible and that the world is fucked. I feel bad because I feel like all it does is make people depressed. It's too much. People are tired and burnt out from daily life too much to handle it.
I think the most cursed part about anti-capitalist theory in general (whether communist, anarchist, or even just stale economic data with no particular tendency associated with it, but which nevertheless demonstrates that capitalism a shit) is that, due to asymmetrical access to education, the bourgeoisie almost always end up reading that stuff more than the working class, and they use it as an instruction manual on how to better fuck people over, rather than a real diagnosis of what's wrong with the world.
Take this excerpt from Michael Hudson's "super imperialism" for example. In the second edition he points out that US agencies were huge customers of his book on US imperialism, and that statisticians worked to cover up the statistics he used to demonstrate US imperialism in the 1st edition.
Lol, Japan was on its way to learn the secrets of the US and they just said
Also, he mentioned in another interview that the CIA specifically was the largest customer for his books in the US, and that he was scheduled to explain the concepts to the president at the time but the president never showed up lol
This was part of the thesis many of the continental philosophers came up with. Their solution was essentially philisophical Blanquism, under the thought that you makenit not worth the effort for anyone else. Which is why it's fucking impossible to understand what Althussier is going on about.