The best evidence that material conditions (not exposure to ideas) determines ones politics, is that the children of cool -left- academic are all shitlibs (hexbear.net)

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Beyond the obvious examples like Buttigieg.

Imagine being one of the most influential American Marxists of the twentieth century, then having your son get a job at the Soros foundation, then he later writes a hagiography for fucking Alexander Hamilton

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Material conditions are basal, but people still make their own choices. For every Buttigieg there's a Kropotkin or Engles.

[-] T_Doug@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

True, leading to one of the greatest dunks in History (which might be too good to have actually happened)

Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class

Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.

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