• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    I think it’s good that a liberal is sort of unwittingly churning out heaps of data that confirm Marxist Leninist theories. Not saying that he is a covert Marxist but by being a gullible liberal he can continue to do this without being ostracised and labelled a tankie or seeseepee shill.

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Piketty’s book “Capital in the 21st Century” put a huge crack in my liberal ideology, and I only read the first few chapters. Namely, when he pointed out how doggedly persistent the flow of capital was from poor to rich outside of WW2 and the black plague, it made me realize how inadequate liberal politics were to solve it. After that, it was easy for me to see through the DNC’s machinations when they fucked Bernie over, which is when I went truly radical.

      Piketty, advertantly or inadvertantly, puts stuff out that van awaken class consciousness