Speaker to Animals wrote:the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially : a theory and practice of socialism (see socialism 3) including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society
I.e. dividing the world up into oppressor and victim classes and waging cultural or real wars on the people you identified as the "oppressors" for the benefit of "social and economic justice". Equality of outcomes instead of equality.
Again, call it whatever the fuck you want to call it. You know what I am talking about.
From that perspective, you are a Marxist. I reject the victim mentality way more than you do and always have.
See... I
do know what you are talking about. I just know that it's not Marxism. You need a word for it, I get it. And Marxism is scary. I get that, too. Like "Racism", to SJW's. The only "culture war" Marx would have cared about was class war and the difference between SJW's ideology and what actual Communists would advocate is that victimization is the method, goal and desired status quo of the sorts of people that include SJW's. When people pretend that white people in America are threatened, or when you pretend that Christians in America are oppresed, you're doing the same. I know Communists, have debated with them on Danish left-leaning forums for years. Old-school, Soviet-supporting ones. They did'nt, nor don't, advocate playing the victim. They advocate revolution as they've always done.
You got the following trends to blame for the victimization mentality in the US, I believe:
1) Lawyers. Making it more and more profitable to claim victimhood to make a buck. That's the economic incentive everyone can relate to.
2) The "Soft bigotry of low expectations" surrounding black people by guilt-riddenwhite people.
3 ) Ever increasing, to the point of irrational need for stability and security.
4 ) A notion that people have a right to be
heard. Not simply speak, but
heard.
5 ) The popular interpretation of "social contructs" as "artificial" and unimportant. Leads to people deciding that everything in society not just can, but should be "deconstructed"... Leads eventually to words like "racism" and "marxism" losing their original meaning.
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