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Hey my fellow radicals, it's me, Federick Langley, your local Marxist revolutionary. Here's a tip on how to bring about communism:

Are you a leftist in a position of higher social status? Do you have an annual income of over $100k or are you on track to get there? Are you pursuing higher education?

Quit! No true Marxist should ever be anywhere near a position of power or greater social influence. Work at an Amazon fulfillment center instead! The path to true leftist enlightenment is poverty and powerlessness. Only then can our beloved leader, radical communist Bernie Sanders, ever become president.

Cowabunga, hexbear! Federick Langley signing out!

Also Marxism isn't a moral framework; being a worker isn't "better" than being a capitalist or a renter. It's en economical analysis.

The issue with renters and capitalists is when they fight to uphold capitalism, which some workers absolutely do as well.

Literally the best thing you could do as a Marxist, objectively, would be to become a billionaire and use the tools of the oligarchy to spread class consciousness to workers & finance Marxist political parties.

The only reason there are no good billionaires is that they instead prop up fascism to poison the politicla discourse away from class consciousness. But apart from that (and other things like their ecological impact, fighting unions, promoting capitalism etc) they're no worse morally than a worker

Socialism is when you're destitute and unable to live a life of dignity

Multiple things can be true at the same time:

1. Yes, it's very usefull for a marxist to go work in industry and logistical choikepoints (ports, trains). A marxist party should do this.
2. This does not imply that all other work becomes useless. A professor/teacher can open the minds of many of their students, and can also build struggle at their own job. The teachers union is also important for marxists.
3. You should not be expected to follow path 1 unless as a part of a plan by a party. If you do it alone and isolated, there's no point.
4. In countries with student-debt like the US, asking of people who went to college to take low-paying jobs on purpose is quite an ask. They should be supported by a party which does this by paying of (a part) of your student debt while engaging in such work. Otherwise, they'll be financially ruined.
5. Point 4 is only possible if your party has money, which implies that a party should ask for a percentege of income of it's cadres/have a maximum income level. Given this role, it's usefull fo to have professors in your org, whose financial contribution can fascilitate indebted people to actually go work among the industrial proletariat.

TIL Engels wasn’t a Marxist

This is a common Maoist position. Not even just imperial core Maoists. Maoists from India to the Philippines often say the same thing: academics is petty bourgeois, drop out and do armed revolution / organize an industry.

They have a bit of a point (academia can co-opt you into the greater liberal project) but are mostly just telling their most committed members to be less rich and flexible professionally which seems counterproductive to me.

stop fetishizing poverty, the more classes we have allies across, the better.

I really do hate the attitude that some people have that you're not a "real Marxist" unless you work 18 hours a day slaving away in a factory somewhere, with no education, barely able to read and write. Like, what do they think the vanguard party is for? Not everyone has the luxury of education, and some people get an education and are well off, but understand that it is a great injustice that so many people are deprived of that, and try to make a difference.

Colleges are largely liberal and most serious Marxist/socialist scholars are blacklisted (Parenti, Graeber, Lady Izdihar) but anyone who says "don't go to college" is someone I don't trust. College isn't the only path to careers and isn't the only place people learn. Community colleges offering welding and mechanic certifications are also just as legit as universities. That kind of elitism is toxic. But people who have the means to go do learn and usually become better humans because of it, even if from nothing else but osmosis and being around different groups of people. College liberals arts professors working as adjuncts at 4 different institutions simultaneously are not class enemies. There's huge differences in degree from those to ivy professors spending all their time getting MIC grants for weapons research.

Ibrahim Traore has a geology degree. Xi Jinping has a degree in chemical engineering and further education in Marxist theory. Graeber had a degree in anthropology. Castro had a law degree. There's a reason education is one of the first things socialists focus on after taking power.

Also "marxist professor" could mean they're an econ ghoul who knows all about Marx in theory, but are not a Marxist themselves. There's a lot of those.

Because no one with a college degree ends up being in a union, very big-brained take.

Ruin your body so some guy on the internet will give you street cred, that's a great idea!

Petite bourgeoisie is whatever I don't like the more I hate it the more petite it is

relevant yugopnik video

Heated Pol Pot moment

Liberals are obsessed with aesthetics huh

Of course they're a Maoist. I think there are Maoists who are in many respects very cool, but for some reason in the west it attracts some of the most annoying people, and I can only imagine a Maoist having this level of anti-intellectualism among nominal Marxists. I guess rarely it comes up with the more chauvinist Stalin fans who just do strawman Stakhanovism unironically, but even they usually aren't this bad (in this respect, they are much worse in other respects).

Edit: So I know Mao said some things that, especially removed from the context of where and why he said them, feed into that anti-intellectual attitude, but he was also literally a teacher and said even after the revolution that that was how he wanted to be remembered. He obviously smoked a large portion of the intelligentsia following the Hundred Flowers campaign*, but the campaign only took place because of his strong belief in the importance of education and the development of socialist theory, something he believed in for all of his life.

*I'm not saying this to weigh in on whether he was right or wrong here, but for understanding trends in his attitudes

Go to Circle K, get yourself two hot dogs

Eat half of one and throw the other out

Stay hungry

one would think one would have an idea this shit been tried 200 years ago and 100 years ago and 50 years ago.