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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I think this is not true. NPC rhetoric originated with right-wingers; google "I support the current thing" for a distillation. Essentially their argument is that the left cares about a lot of things, and therefore it doesn't care about any of them, people are just conformists and not thinking for themselves, etc. Communists reject this: we have a coherent framework of looking at the world, our position on individual struggles (labor, racism, queer liberation, colonialism, whatever) is informed by that, and so we can have strong beliefs about many issues that are a reflection of our strong central beliefs. Apply the same logic to our enemies.

Conservatives who move, for instance, from hating gay people to hating trans people didn't have a chip swapped out in their heads. They want to maintain patriarchy and oppose any attempts to loosen the straightjacket. They may variously oppose "CRT", "DEI", "ESG"; "PC culture" or "wokeness"; all those oppositions are the same impulse to keep capitalism chugging away to benefit the guys at the top.

There are some funny exceptions in the form of post-hoc rationalization, like how the evangelical groups only began opposing abortion on religious grounds after they realized that legalizing it threatened to undermine patriarchy. But for the most part, any heavy consumer of right-wing social media, conservative activist, or politician has or is coalescing a fairly consistent worldview and we can't beat them if we incorrectly think they're morons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Communists reject this: we have a coherent framework of looking at the world, our position on individual struggles (labor, racism, queer liberation, colonialism, whatever) is informed by that, and so we can have strong beliefs about many issues that are a reflection of our strong central beliefs.

Communism will always be 2 things 1) informed by a coherent framework and 2) cool. It's really neat because of that. You get a lot of dunks because the zeitgeist will necessarily always determined by a lot of people poking at the lowest common denominator and your understanding of theory gives you succinct explanations. I.e. someone talking about the risks a business owner takes and you responding how they risk ending up working alongside your dumbass. It's also always cool to be a misfit and care for other misfits. The Yemeni pirate kid who took over that shipping vessel is hard not to root for if you're not reveling in your direct benefit from the imperialist economy. A union is going to always have your heart more than shareholders will. You can try to point fingers at a teacher's union and claim that they're greedy, but how could you ever get a cultural purchase about teachers being overpaid? It's just not going to happen.

It's so neat that communists disdain to conceal their aims.

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