#ty2k

Are "screaming" over nothing and basically making fools of ourselves when we say things are hard for us to understand. Ive done the reading. From the beginning. Its still hard and theres concepts i probably will never understand and honestly there needs to be more of an effort to include us in the movement.

ty2k replied to your post “hey, so... why is it that communism is so... inaccessible? is this a...”

The thing is communism is supposed to be for everyone, including people who are learning/disabled or just don't have time to read theory all day. im not walking into a calc final with no prior knowledge, and it isnt comparable bc calculus isnt something everyone should kno. im a disabled person trying to learn more about a system thats supposed to benefit me, and honestly i find it a bit rude that you immediately go on to act like we just dont know what we're doing and

This is absolutely not the point. The point was that there are already tons of resources out there which you can use to learn about communism in a way that may be easier for you specifically to understand, but there is no single “accessible” way to discuss or write about anything, as there will always be people who do not understand certain subsets of a conversation- for instance, anything you discuss in English will be totally inaccessible to people who mostly understand another language, and in that case you could make the writing “accessible” via an online translator. It is one thing to ask to be pointed toward those resources, or even to nicely ask someone to explain something you have a difficult time with. It is another to demand that they do the difficult work of teaching (which is difficult and not for everyone- many people are great learners and poor teachers) you concepts because you think that a stranger on the internet owes you that very real work. What happens online is very often the second. That’s what the post was addressing.

Moreover, I think the use of calculus as a metaphor was actually pretty reasonable. Your average person does NOT need to know calculus- you’re totally right! Your average person needs to know subtraction and multiplication to know how much change they should get from a purchase, or how to multiply to count things quickly, or some basic algebra to understand and solve simple equations. Calculus is absolutely not USEFUL to your average person on a daily basis. Likewise, your average communist does not need to be well versed in the minutiae of ideological differences between tiny subsets of communists. You don’t need to have read Marx to organize a rent party. You do not need to have read Marx to help set up a local garden and feed people. You do not need to have read Marx to try your hand at organizing a union. It is absolutely not the case that every single revolutionary needs to concern themself with small theoretical issues for the establishment of socialism in some form. Che Guevara’s band of guerillas in the Cuban mountains were not motivated by reading Capital. They were motivated by real forces and wanted to work to change the power of those forces, forces like imperialism and poverty and capitalism that they understood whether they could read Marx, or write well about it, because they were living those conditions. The establishment of socialism does not require that every revolutionary be well read on unimportant ideological details, though there is nothing wrong with focusing on those things. If you walk up to your average liberal and ask how the IMF works, how the conditions of the third world have been impacted by the World Bank and its policies, how the Federal Reserve works, how stocks are traded or how they have value- they have no idea! And yet they are able to vote for candidates that speak to them in some sense, and liberal democracy does not crumble because of their lack of knowledge- though I think it is crumbling for other reasons. Not all of this is that important. That people should be fed however necessary, that people should have homes, that healthcare should be free and easily accessed, that education should be provided for free, that useless work should be eliminated to free up human time- all of these are concepts that are easy to understand based on thinking about current living conditions under capitalism. Certainly reading Lenin has helped me to frame some of how I think we solve these issues. But the core of what I believe is broadly shared by many leftists, even those I have major disagreements with, and I picked up Lenin to learn more about his ideas on solutions- I didn’t pick up Lenin to learn what I opposed and what I wanted to build.

Damien or Demona or Demora or something like that

xander i love u please dont ever be scared to be u. u r a pioneer of the future and r so strong!!!!!

- also spiral ty for sharing all this stuff it warms my gay heart sm