Andytimbo@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 1 year agoMany of the modern anticapitalists and marxists in the western world are aging out. Parenti is currently suffering from Dementia and Wolff is in his eighties and can't go on forever. Who comes next?lemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1105file-text
arrow-up1105imageMany of the modern anticapitalists and marxists in the western world are aging out. Parenti is currently suffering from Dementia and Wolff is in his eighties and can't go on forever. Who comes next?lemmygrad.mlAndytimbo@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square127fedilinkfile-text
Essentially do you see any big modern marxist public figures coming in as the “old guard” ages out? Who?
minus-square ｓｉｌｌｙ . ｌｉｌ . ｊｅｓｔｅｒ@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoHopefully not. I’m an iconoclast. I tire of cults of personality. Hopefully class conscious people can cultivate class consciousness in people around them till the breaking point of dissent is reached.
minus-squareAmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agoI didn’t know iconoclasm meant being against teachers. Because that’s what these two men have been. They’re known for their lectures and their books. They’ve done fuckall to foster a cult around them.
minus-square ｓｉｌｌｙ . ｌｉｌ . ｊｅｓｔｅｒ@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAnd yet people act like cultists around them.
minus-square☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoAround Parenti and Wolff??? I’ve never seen anything like that
minus-squareredtea@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSo you didn’t go to your local summer solstice Parenti ceremony?
Hopefully not. I’m an iconoclast. I tire of cults of personality. Hopefully class conscious people can cultivate class consciousness in people around them till the breaking point of dissent is reached.
I didn’t know iconoclasm meant being against teachers.
Because that’s what these two men have been. They’re known for their lectures and their books. They’ve done fuckall to foster a cult around them.
And yet people act like cultists around them.
Around Parenti and Wolff??? I’ve never seen anything like that
So you didn’t go to your local summer solstice Parenti ceremony?
I forgor 💀