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Blackshirts and Reds remains 🔛🔝
It really is fantastic agitprop. It slips beyond the liberal shields like a slow knife in Dune.![emoji lisan-al-gaib lisan-al-gaib](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7b2029fc-0555-4d00-81c8-65523d51eefd.png)
What is the Blackshirts and Reds reading level? Seems to be a lot of agreement that we need theory that's written at a 6th grade level because that's where most American's reading skills are. I'm not entirely sure what htat means in terms of word choice and concepts, since I think what we're going for is present the concepts straight, but using language - words, sentence structures, things like that, that people whose reading skills aren't strong. Like, they're not stupid, they're lacking a particular skill, kind of thing.
I don't think it is a hard read and is quite short so it is rather quick (<160pgs). It isn't theory or a philosophical text. It is easy to read like any pop nonfiction book although the subject matter is sometimes hard to stomach.
https://readabilityformulas.com/readability-scoring-system.php
I plugged a thousand random words from Blackshirts and Reds in to this thing and it says it's either at 12th grade or college graduate. That means we've immediately lost 50%-70% of Americans. We gotta get a vocabulary, sentence structure, and layout that's approachable with a 6th grade reading level to get to most Americans.