The left needs to start dressing like normal working men and women. Looking edgy and counter-culture has absolutely no advantage and nothing to do with Marxism or socialism. It harms the cause, and alienates you from the proletariate. You all look like an MTV commercial.
Some rules the left should try to live by:
- no MTV glasses - a regular length hair-cut, no undercuts, dreads, or hippy shit, you're not a hippie you're a leftist. - nothing punk ever - only 1 pin allowed on your person - clothes should fit like a normal person - jacket and tie in a formal meeting (don't be a fedora tho) - NO beards (unless you've actually contributed to marxian theory) - no fist raising, unless you're literally a Black Panther - minimize the hammer and sickles, you're not marching on Berlin or a naxal.
- above all else just dress like a member of the class you belong to and the people you work with.
btw the pic posted is actually not bad, except for a couple of the obvious guys.
Elijah Davis
Stupid nigger.
Nathaniel Cooper
"Working class" is a structural division within capitalism. For the left, it isn't supposed to be an identity you can dress up as,, like for Halloween.
Aiden Harris
normcore is the official fashion of leftypol
Gavin Wright
Fuck off people will dress how they want
Brody Watson
People on the pic are decent, except the bearded hippie guy
Nicholas Taylor
I like having long hair though
Plenty of people where I live have beards.
Elijah Thompson
Delet this
Aiden Rivera
you're being hyperreal if you dress like a fucking leftist clown simulation
David Anderson
imagine if he had dreads and a marxist beard and wore green cargo pants?
Logan Richardson
fucking this I only every where my two denim blue shirts where ever I go. I have a special black once I where on occasions.
Sebastian Martinez
that is perfect. that's all i'm saying. do what this user is doing Holla Forums
James Wilson
only silly hats also
Jeremiah Rodriguez
I haven't gotten a haircut in half a year fight me
Carson Richardson
Openly calls to unionize the american military b/c we'll need soldiers on our side to win the revolution, doesn't need a nose ring, 30 pins, long unkept hair, a black mask
Zachary Morris
mate I spend enough time being a corporate drone, I'm not doing that shit at protests too.
Lincoln Nguyen
This is literally turning leftist class analysis into identity politics.
You're both trying to define the working class' identity, despite the fact that the working class has a very broad variety of dress styles (Most subcultures ARE working class) and then you're telling people that they're wrong for not following your identity politics.
The important thing in how you dress is what's practical if you get into conflict. Don't leave loose dangly things that can get caught or grabbed, don't wear clothes too baggy for the same reason, don't wear anything that restricts your movement.
Most of the people in that picture look pretty okay and wouldn't even look that odd just on the streets, patches and pins aside.
Nathan Lopez
Hey fuck you beards are hip as fuck and lenin style really fits well with my face. Feels good man American detected. NEVER
Alexander Harris
unique non-corpotate drone right here! what are you wearing cool dude?
Isaiah Brooks
Fuck man put on some pants.
Cameron Collins
I know just the man for the job
Hudson Thompson
my pajama bottoms?
Carson Walker
Shut up you dumb faggot. The only reason you're tolerated spouting nonsense is that our mods are worthless fuckheaded little creatures.
Jaxson Sanders
Degenerate.
John Gomez
it's turning it off of identity politics and cliched hyperreal signalling
- dress like the guys you weld with, or the guys you clean with, or the women you make calls with. just b/c you've read a bit of chomsky there is no reason to actively go out and put on the leftist costume.
Justin Hernandez
I'll do everything you said OP, but I want my hammer and sickle. I'll wear it as a pin or something.
Joseph Hughes
If you want that just join a commie group and not an anarchist one…
That has been a leftist thing for about a century so hell no… No, bear that symbol with pride you fucking dumbass, being all cucked about showing your ideology is a fucking awfull strat
3/10 terrible post
Noah Miller
Youre full of shit OP
Although I agree crusties need to go.
Joseph Hill
The Polo shirt Nazis tried to go normalcore. It didn't really help them.
Logan Fisher
jewcore
Jordan Gutierrez
yeah. next time you go into a car plant in Tennessee or something to organize the workers, make sure you dress like your favourite punk rock band!
Evan Williams
You realize a lot of these people also have long hair, beards, and wear odd stuff, sometimes including clothing with political things on it? Working at a factory I saw people dress up to have different "looks" than just "le normie clothes."
Are you just retarded or have you only ever worked in some nice cushy "middle class" desk job in a sterile corporate setting?
Juan Rivera
okay. I think that would be fine. just no need to drape the flag around the room you happen to be meeting in. which is something that is done :(
How many workplaces have you unionized mister fashion police?
Owen Lewis
oook
Julian Rodriguez
They need to shower. The way they dress is fine.
Samuel Fisher
Riiiiight
Anthony Ross
careful not to wear the Young Pioneers pin unless you're a child (i've seen men in the west wearing these without knowing)
Charles Rivera
oh yeah, if you were giving that speech, in whatever garbage bag and plastic bag hat you wear they'd have voted yes
Jeremiah Clark
Finally Recognition for my fashion choices Feels good mang
Nathan Moore
No crustpunk is gross and so are dreads.
Jackson Rogers
I'm in a trade union and I see dudes with long hair/beards, tattoos, biker shit, and even younger guys that dress like "hipsters". You're turning a class relation into an identity by trying to create some kind of acceptable working class uniform when the reality is that the working class come from all walks of life and dress in a myriad of ways.
Dominic Williams
you know damn well the kind of people I'm talking about in the OP.
Ian Torres
I wouldn't say we're trying to be /leftyfashionpolice/ But be honest with your self, which one of these pics is easy to make meme parodies of, and which one is easier undermine as a useless punk?
Nathaniel Morales
rate the aesthetic of this german maoist youth group
Dominic Edwards
I cant find anyone weird in that picture. All the people on the right side are just wearing clothes, hats and scarfs. Unlike the guys on the right who wear full body LARP gear
Owen Hughes
Gabber/10 I approve
Jonathan Perry
Nice
Noah Young
Lose the track suits, Get some Quasi fantasist vibe going, and I'll r8 8/8 m8
REMINDER They stole from us first! We would just be taking it back!
Anthony Campbell
Damn
Zachary Davis
Are you fucking joking? They are litterally the best thing about it… (and currently hugely popular among german prole youth…)
Hunter Gonzalez
Gabberclothes is already quasi-nazi .t dutch person
Were it not for the hammersickle and the flag, I would think they are neonazis.
Oliver Lee
Eh, the association in germany would go more into the direction of football hooligan
Ryder Baker
trainingspak is Schilderswijk-core
Chase Adams
sorry ik ben geen hagenees. Hier in rotterdam is het wat meer neonaziachtig.
Of marrokaantje, maar die dragen meestal iets andere kleuren enzo.
Andrew Thompson
I only ever see old people or gigantic hipsters wearing them.
Jayden Martin
Nah I'm not really sure who you mean. Odds are that the majority of the people you see at a protest are proles or students about to be proles so their wardrobe ,regardless of subjective taste, is of the working class because they are the working class. Does somebody lose their working class status if they have too many band pins on their jacket?
Lucas Ross
I guess your right, I'm just a sucker for classical prole clothing.
Camden Johnson
Godverdomme ik voel me nu wel kakkerig zeg. Bij het zien van een tracksuit denk ik gelijk "uitshot, uit de buurt blijven". Aan de andere kant, meestal klopt dat ook wel.
Juan Turner
He's coming bucko
Carson Johnson
So who here actually deviates at all from the norm?
Ryan White
yeah the best first reaction you can get is "woah these people look fuckin wierd" that usually gets people to listen to you about politics…
Andrew Thomas
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Carson Thomas
how is "deveating from the norm" meant then?
Blake Richardson
Is het "uitschot" zo erg bij jou?
David Kelly
I was just wondering if there was anyone here who dresses 'alternatively'.
Camden Thompson
Agreed. Looking like "freaks" will only lead to you being treated as such and le ebin rightwing maymays
Zachary Garcia
The funny thing about it is I don't have punk clothes, I don't dress weird, I look like the definition of normie.
You're just a fucking dipshit.
David Gonzalez
Neckties are a symbol of the bourgeoisie and counter-revolutionary trash. The belong to the dustbin of history. pics very related
Alexander Moore
All the left needs to do is organize, reach out and make people actively aware of the contradictions of capitalism. You don't need to dress like a "dapper" alt-right retard in order to convince people to join your side. If you're leftist be worried about economics and the material world around, not a bunch of meaningless shit you think is necessary because you read a shitty Holla Forums ideas thread. Maybe the left would be larger if it wasn't filled with a bunch people who want to put on a fake show for the average person like brainddead liberals or the aut-right.
Cameron Morris
I actually used to at like 16, Jumpboots, Military jacket with a bunch of pins, dyed hair, left wing brands…
Stopped doing that because it drew attention from the local fash
Also i stopped being an edgy teenager and an anrchist but thats redundant :^)
Daniel Richardson
Nigga, do you even go outside? Every one of them looks like a normal working persons. Only the beard guy is on the line but if he binds his hair he'd be fine.
Xavier Sanders
Fucking this. Dressing "nice" is pathetic, meaningless praxis
Thomas Williams
So don't dress how a young person in 2017 would.
A normal person doesn't dress like someone from the 20's. Like it or not, tats, haircuts, gay glasses, and beards are currently in fashion. At my shitty jobs and going to uni it would be much more common to see a hipster faggot than a dapper aut-right cunt, of which I've only seen once.
Kevin Carter
oh right…leftcoms…
John Price
No
Nicholas Watson
I've heard stories that for my local IWW, if someone shows up to a pipeline protest in edgy punk rock shit, they make them change into a flannel and jeans immediately.
Robert Thomas
Whatever, Mr. Blackwell. I get wanting to look respectable, but lead by example as opposed to shitposting about it here.
If he was a billion years younger, he probably would.
I can get behind silly hats.
Jacob Jones
What I want to ask people supporting this: What are you trying to accomplish by putting on these regulations?
You're not dressing up for a job interview. You're not going to curry favor from the opposite side by looking like you dress to respect them. You're going out to actively engage people who hate you. They're not going to respect you more because you dressed up looking nice. The cops are going to bash your head in no matter what you're wearing because you're criminal scum and they have orders to get rid of you. Just because you're out there in a nice polo shirt isn't going to stop you from getting a stick to the head. The rightists hate you because you're trying to destroy their precious traditional culture that doesn't exist. The capitalists hate you because you're fundamentally opposed to their existence. The idpol "left" aren't going to care one way or the other. They all either hate you already, or they don't care how you dress.
Are you trying to impress the "fence sitters"? Most of them are already too busy whinging about how we need to all stop getting so upset in the first place. They don't want to get involved. And are you seriously going to want people who are so shallow that your dress is the deciding factor in where they eventually choose to fall?
The only thing you should care about is how pragmatic your dress is. When you're out in the streets, you should wear something that is ultimately protective, both your identity, and your body. Dense clothing with several layers is actually very protective, facial coverings are good, and thick hats are useful. Don't wear things that are excessively baggy or loose things that catch easily that you can be caught by. If you're at a group meeting or otherwise with friendlies, dress as is appropriate to suggest that you're taking a meeting seriously.
Parker Morris
You're going to make yourself look like a normal person to the public instead of a histrionic attention whore that shouldn't be taken seriously
Is this really that hard to understand? First impressions and appeareances are important, especially with what is a much demonized political ideology
Jace Fisher
"The Public" is also composed of people who are either going to be agreeing with you or who already don't like you.
Again, the only people who are going to be giving enough of a shit about your clothes to make decisions on your political stances are people who frankly should be fucking ignored for being dumb as a bag of rocks.
Jordan Brown
Agree Dreads yeah, long hair is fine though Agree Agree Duh Nah Clean shaven or stubble Nah its a good symbol and it's from 1920s Germany not the panthers Disagree
Landon Parker
These are bullshit. The rest is OK.
Elijah Howard
Are you fucking kidding me. The vast majority of people in the Western world hold normie moderate views and are already suffering under Capitalism
The last thing they need is some fucking crustie hair dyed hippie stinking of shit telling them to FIGHT THE POWER MAYNEEEE. If we ditched not just tge histrionics but also the overused slogans and lingo we could absolutely portrays ourselves as a working class movement that is, you know, made up of working class people, that is relatable and makes creating a system from tge hands of the common man a very possible reality instead of some pipedream.
James Wood
Just dress like a coal miner from 1925, that will make you look totally normal guys.
Christopher Johnson
"the public" again is composed of people who hold political views. Most of them are not nearly as concerned about how you dress as questioning about things like "muh property damages".
Jonathan Torres
Helping to create a mass movement tbh
totally depends on who you are going out to confront. Nazis? Come in your riotgear, sure. Cops on may day? do the same. Handing out flyers or holding a vigil etc. dress like the people you want to appeal to. The average alienated as fuck wageslave appreintice will probably less put off by a bunch of dudes in tracksuits, basecaps and fannypacks (dont laugh, its a thing here) than a pack of crustpunks or the Che Guevara LARP Brigade…
Use all the connection to the working class that we can get. Identity, codes, they fucking matter.
Austin Edwards
Except the alt-right was very successful with it until they fucked up and went full Nazi and killed a white lady.
Hudson Thompson
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David Anderson
long hair and beards is pretty common for guys.
Cameron Brooks
I agree tbh
Adrian Young
They were walking around in Pepe costumes carrying signs with literally "Praise Kek" on it.
Jace Baker
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Lucas Bennett
You can see his dick through that.
Lincoln Howard
i know, that makes this whole thing even funnier
Landon Thompson
are you retarded or just trying to piss me off?
Sebastian Lopez
i'm surprised they weren't all arrested, uniforms are forbidden and even just the hat could qualify as that
Jordan Clark
Yeah youre totally right…
Juan Martinez
that came across sarcastic, but you did quote the law that i was refering to. am i missing something or wasn't it intended as sarcasm? polite sage
Brody Hill
wasnt sarcastic
Luke Myers
The left has bigger problems than the way it dresses. Literally means nothing if you're not a retard. The division needs to be fixed first. Then the lack of violence. Then the dress.
You're only making it worse.
Nicholas Murphy
no
Carter Clark
you know why the left it's way more successful? it's not a hivemind, not an echo chamber. Therfore it's always larger than whatever Holla Forumstard Neo-Nazis do.
Anthony Stewart
good.
but what the fuck is iww protesting pipelines lmao
Charles Turner
almost every minute of the life of almost every person is under capitalism. the neo-nazis are not who you should compare the left against, the left have barely touched Porky in the last few decades. We're not cleaning up to beat fascists
James Ramirez
agree but fuck your rulles>>2006377
Alexander Thomas
shit im ahute couture in that then
Logan Brown
i dress like the class i belong, thats why i dont have new clothes op. clothes are expensive as shit
Adam Parker
"cleaning up the left" is an fucking autistic nerd fantasy. Like 95% of Holla Forums's ideology. 95% socially retarded nerd fantasies. fuck off. Everyone does what he/she wants.
Henry Bailey
pick one
Logan Long
Start by cleaning up your room, sorting yourself out, getting a steady income outside of welfare and build a stable relationship.
Joseph Anderson
So basically Holla Forums's 'aesthetics' idea with a sort of red dress on? Isn't it a little bit sad, maybe a touch juvenile, that you take the piss when they do it and then straight rip off the idea? Kind of thirteen year old boy tier.
Connor Kelly
Holy fuck this thread just highlights how middle-class Holla Forums really is. What a fucking condescending, out of touch cunt you are OP. t. Blue collar family from a mining town in England
John Hughes
And the structural division within capitalism is becoming narrower and narrower, more and more elite. Sooner or later there will be 'proletarian' elite technicians and a mass of de facto lumpen who produce no value whatsoever, if even that.
Just look at the stats. Numbers of 'self-employed' lumpen are exploding all over the advanced capitalist world, and you lot want to talk about proletarian revolution?
Jaxon Perez
Roo de fucking doo Kevin. Eat shit and die, nothing is more irritating than a self-consciously proletarian Englishman.
Jackson Howard
So we literally dress like jews from the 90's now?
Landon Kelly
If you do not dress properly you are damaging our movement. That makes you worse than a nazi. And you will be dealt with in kind, severely and without prejudice.
James Phillips
This is a pretty good actually. All black is scary and nobody wants to join a party full of white dudes with dreadlocks
Jason Lee
ironically only Jerry was a Jewish character played by a Jewish actor
Chase Nguyen
This.
This is literally addressing only the most trite "problem" on the left.
Tyler Bennett
When will you braindead jigaboos learn that most of all, people don't want to join a party full of 'twentysomething' snarkers who say shit like 'white dudes with dreadlocks?' Its hair, it doesn't matter to anyone who is worth organising.
That is the only pearl I will cast before you shit sucking pigs.
Luke Lewis
Well there's not a lot of self improvement. The left should make their people become healthier and stronger and build them up.
Chase King
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Tyler Clark
There should be a definite self improvement culture within the left. The way you dress is a lot less important than how healthy and the fitness level of your people.
The liberals and their corporations like Purdue pharma wants us on drugs and the CIA heroin. The biggest killer of the working class right now is the opiate epidemic. The people need to get clean.
Julian Hall
The revolutionaries also need study skills. If we're doing surveillance or demographics, or gathering intel. it can take MONTHS what porky can achieve in one day. Do people realize how long it takes to get the average leftist to do a task?
Isaiah Murphy
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA Sellners Truppe ist so ein peinlicher Faschingsverein!!! XD
i approve of this. much better than sjw hipster and ugly antifa/punk/zecken look. however it's a bit too aggressive and looks too much like an uniform, neither is good. uniforms will only attract edgelords, tryhards and maybe some /k/ and /fit/ types, but do not appeal to the general public. t. Normiebernd
Cooper Green
Yeah dress like a fucking cult, that's how you win people over.
For fucksake Crimethinc lifestylism is preferable to this pretentious bullshit Please shut up Being an Ameriburger leftist like you (I'm 99 percent certain you are an American) is one of the worst things you can be anyway. I'd take being a fucking "hippy" as if that even exists anymore, over your autistic cult shit. How fucking often do you leave your bedroom? Fuck, god forbid people wear pins You already look like an autist intentionally dressing up like that for informal activity, skipping the fedora won't save you What fucking planet do you live on where beards are inherently anti-social? durr hurr And you're probably not even a "worker" I'm honestly fucking baffled at the thought that you're not joking.
Please killyourself, nobody wants retards like you patronizing people.
Elijah Miller
So your solution to the lefts image problem is to to literally dress like a bunch of bourgeois faggots? Nah fuck off cunt, I'm gonna keep my long hair and leather jackets.
Jackson Rodriguez
They literally larp as comic book characters and roman legionaries you absolute turbosperg.
Julian Adams
Coming from a racist I would have to say those lads look pretty a e s t h e t i c
Jack Hall
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Logan Parker
kek'd
Cameron Ward
fuck off bourgeois cunt
Brody Cox
fine. people will see your group like this pic. do it that way.
Brandon Evans
yes, it ought to be abundantly clear that it is necessary for the left to put effort into matching the grace and dignity of the right.
Aaron Morgan
What if the left pulled up there pants and stopped listening to musc that glorified drugs, bitche's and hoes……..
Jaxson Hernandez
you're a faggot my dude
Noah Hernandez
Any future serious leftist movement will have to institute a dress code. An uniform would be too much, but clearly this crust-punk shit is inadmissable. It should show the people have some manner of pride in themselves, and have common design elements and motiffs.
Jackson Campbell
OP is right if he is talking about the Left's modern PR.
OP is wrong if he is talking about the necessity for a set, perscribed aesthetic that everyone must adhere to. Uniformism would kill creativity, sense of freedom, the socialized clothing industry . Everyone should look the way they wanna look, jeez.
Jacob Lee
Clean up the right, a quarter of your politics is about your inability to get laid.
Mason Mitchell
flags and fist raising is okay it shows who you represent. Beards are just facial hair, and everything else I agree with.
Tyler Brooks
I don't dress LIKE a poor person. I AM a poor person. Fuckin middle class larpers trying to tell me to dress better. Kiss my ass or buy me all these nice clothes you want me to wear.
Nathaniel Peterson
Fucking casual. 5 years.
Henry Taylor
Do you look like one of those crust cunts?
Do you have dyed hair? Piercings? Dreads?
No? Then you're fine nigger.
Dominic Mitchell
that's not militia core, you'd look more like a serial killer if anything.
Cameron Bennett
Lots of poor people have piercings you autistic sheltered idiot. Punk litterally is working class, at least, it was until the petit bourg picked it up to piss of their parents.
Brayden Sullivan
What, you mean aviators? They are the only acceptable kind of sunglasses to me. Are you a faggot who wears these bicycling glasses? Long hair is okay as long as it's taken care off with conditioner and such and not tied to a ponytail or some LARPing viking shit. Undercut is normiecore, no idea why you single that one out. Dreads are awful, I agree even though I sometimes find them hot on girls. What you mean by hippie stuff? Holy shit, fuck you. I'll never stop wearing a leather jacket. Fine by me. I agree. People who wear stuff too big for them are absolutely disgusting. I have nothing against tight stuff as long as you work out. Gets you laughed at in leftist meetings. Unless you are literally invited to a talk show this isn't required at all, and even then no tie makes you often look more sympathetic. Why? Are you fucking retarded? That has nothing to do with the Black Panthers. Cuck
Carson Edwards
Fuck off, fascist.
David Harris
Lumpens, sure. But the average worker/lower class? Not so much. It don't matter. It looks like utter shit and ultimately boils down to lifestylism.
I'm honestly surprised how many people are getting assblasted by this. You're fucking Communists. Why the fuck are you holding clothes as sacred cows.
Wyatt Bennett
I wear what I work in. Work boots, dark jeans, untucked dickies shirt. People should wear what they want.
Ethan Gomez
Funny because that sounds a lot like what you're sound as well. I also refuse to believe you know any poor people if you think there aren't plenty of poor people with piercings.
Parker Moore
Because we're humans with different tastes you autistic fuck. I could easily say "clean cut" is a spook pushed by a capitalist-centric system to enforce the idea of presenting yourself as a commodity. Present what employers want or you're worthless.
I've always despised absolute formality. I don't take jobs that require a business dress code regardless of pay. I've worked in a university setting full time for 5 years, only needed to dress up for special events off campus otherwise I wear jeans and untucked shirt. Fuck off with your cookie-cutter fascist bullshit.
Connor Allen
t. spooks the comment
Angel Wright
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Anthony Cook
When people look at historical revolutionary leaders, they were actually dressed quite contrarian as well. Lenin might look formally well-dressed in 2017 but was looking like a rascal compared to the extremly formal, aristocratic style which was expected from politicians in 1917.
Jaxon Miller
"But what if we wear suits!"
Jackson Gomez
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Julian Phillips
Lol, but they they didn't vote yes anyway. Maybe it's not the clothes, huh?
Brody King
They have literally no power. Almost like it's nothing to do with how people dress.
Brandon Jackson
Best post in the thread so far, and it's from a leftcom. Tells you just how bad this shitty idea is.
Parker Gomez
Yeah except I'm not telling you you should wear this or that every single day of your life. If you gotta make a public appeareance representing other people, then jesus don't look like an attention whore or a weirdo.
And sorry dude, but the only I know that wear piercings are my artsy cousin in uni, a tattoo artist and occassionally the suicide girls. Its your word against mine.
Who said anything about formal? If your monkey ass doesn't wanna wear a suit then don't, just don't look like a dumpster diver or a rainbow-haired dyke Fuck where is that Renegade Angel .mp4 I saw posted like yesterday.
They look like they're a thousand miles farther than anybody in diabetestan
Yeah as opposed to the lifestylists that have achieved making anarchism look like a joke.
Leo Nelson
Literally what did he mean by these two statements?
"If we just wear Brooks Brothers suits they'll agree with us! Wouldn't want meanie boy Holla Forums to make fun!"
Literally what have you done in your community to organize your fellow workers? I'd honestly like to know.
Aiden Murphy
They're dressed normally on the 2nd pic dude
Ryan Williams
Cunt for the nth time. Nobody is telling you to wear a suit.
And I don't know why half of the people that dislike this idea think this has something to do with muh highschool rivalry.
Its about public perception. Which believe or not is important if you want to build a mass movement.
Jackshit. The Left has a massive PR problem that it needs resolved before socialism actually becomes an alternative people can actually consider.
Hudson Nguyen
Right, nothing. Try organizing your community and you'll see that people interested in tenant unions, workers having their wages stolen, workers hoping to keep rapacious development out of their neighborhoods; they don't care about how people fuckin' dress.
I've heard your dumbass idea so many times and it's simply wrong. Get that through your head, it isn't the key that the left could just never figure out.
Aiden Ortiz
Except they do cunt. You'd think anybody would take you seriously with your anticonformist snowflake look?
I honestly don't know why asking you to not dress like an autist seems like such a hard thing to do.
Sebastian Taylor
No, they should dress in uniforms and march with north korean precision in order to signal to the 1% the strength of the awakened working class.
Adam Cook
the organiation officially doesn't touch the pipeline protests itself, but like 75% of the members of my branch are doing it
even if its kind of a waste of time from some perspectives, it really helps us outreach with rural conservative people who otherwise would have no reason to see us socialists positively
Joseph Thompson
We have a saying on /fa/ Talk shit, post fit. Come on OP, post a picture of the ideal leftist. Do it, faggot.
Jordan Perry
it's so sad, the ones disagreeing in this thread seem to think buying 'unique' and interesting clothes has anything to do with being unique and their own person. They've been tricked by late-capitalism to such a degree that I'm getting kind of sad and need a different left. maybe i'll try buddhism?
Alexander Ross
apparently telling them not to dress like autists is really making them mad. I'm learning a lot in this thread about how 'edgy' the left has become : (
Leo Sanders
Literal bullshit mongering. I dress quite conservatively.
Nicholas Adams
Totally agree, I indeed grew up my hair and shaved my beard not to look like a hippy.
To all people who still larp: i know at first it may hurt, but you know OP is right
Wyatt Torres
Dressing how you normally dress is not LARPing. That's the point you cretins need to get through your heads.
Tyler Bailey
So if you wear wizard robes everywhere it is no longer larp?
James Perry
This unironically. Strength through discipline.
Easton Rivera
Do you really think the modern left has discipline? Most of these fags wouldn't last an hour in any military.
Wyatt Powell
I don't know if they have it. I do know we need it.
Alexander Russell
Have you seen the drek that makes up the majority of the US army? They literally scrape the bottom of the societal barrel, scooping up every desperate hood rat and bubba they can get their hands on.
Hunter Richardson
Based Seinfeldbro
Jason Sanders
I'm just kind of tired of dealing with the assclowns with ear discs and Immortal Technique haircuts. They almost universally turn out to be narcissists that do more harm than good the organizations they involve in.
Camden Nguyen
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Isaiah Edwards
I do think there is something to be said about showing up to a rally or protest looking like a clown. It's hard to sympathize with clowns. Same thing for stupid shit like "die ins".
Lincoln Bailey
Too bloody right OP. It's similar with poofters: don't carry on like a wand-waving wanker in a skirt shouting "FAAAAABULOUS" just in case the rest of the world doesn't know you're a fudgepuncher.
Christopher Phillips
I'm tempted to agree with OP. A leftist 'uniform', particularly what LARPing anarchists tend to wear, functions in the same way as a hijab or yamaka or other religious dress. It not only identifies you as a member of a particular group, it keeps you separate. It gets in the way of you socialising and basically leads you to keep to your own kind. Its no surprise that extreme religious organisations often insist on their members sticking to a particular and unusual dress. I'd even go so far as to say that political LARPing has become a way for capitalism to keep radicals from being taken seriously by the public, simultaneously generating a market (see: subculture) for them to exploit.
Jonathan Cox
on the one hand it throws people off and makes them underestimate me (generally good. nobody expects a hippie to stab them in the front.) but on the other it's impossible to imagine being selected as a prospective candidate for anything, even a council election, without looking good enough in areas one can control.
Jason Garcia
But seriously look at most non-political people. They dress weird too. Everyone dresses so weird these days, that nobody does. Most leftists I know are, if anything, outlandishly normcore.
Isaac Peterson
Not necessarily man, it is possible to look respectable and professional with long hair, but it depends a lot on you.
Are you fit, tall and sexy? Then keep your hair well groomed and you can totally rock it.
Are you average to below-average looking, lanky or overweight? Then cut it and keep it smart. Pic related.
Hudson Phillips
Dressing well these days basically means dressing like a hipster, which is rather classist. What does it mean to dress working class when we wont work blue collar jobs
Alexander Jackson
I just wear jeans, t shirt, a coat or jacket and then boots. Have long-ish hair but I think its fine and no one has ever said that it looks shit, I keep it clean and all that jazz. Fashion just seems overly consumerist and I look normal enough so it works for me.
Asher Myers
Fuck off with your idpol bullshit OP
Christian Wilson
i am butt naked as i read this. fuck you.
Michael Lopez
I have this shirt
Bentley Martin
Whats this comic called? Would be much appreciated.
Brayden Davis
How about you mind your own business, OP?
James Robinson
Fuck off. You sound like a rightfag now.
Evan King
Honestly, you really think neutral black clothing is that bad when you compare to what the autistic right-wingers come dressed up as? lol
Adrian Harris
Bruh…
Adam Wood
I do agree that people would drop the hammer and sickle, for a variety of reasons, not just its association with failed regimes, but also the fact that modern day agricultural methods have come a LONG way since then. Modern day communism needs new symbols; I honestly kind of wish everyone would just adopt the Japanese Communist Party's logo
Seriously, someone needs to start flying this shit. I want #weebcommunism to become a thing.
Carter Murphy
I just don't see the call center worker, or the biggest employer in North America - retail/service will connect at all with the hammer and sickle. It just has nothing to do with the current proletariat
Ian Jackson
Read about Black Block tactics&history you doofus, there's a reason protesters dress as tehy do nowadays
Aiden Watson
Never, I personally won'tlet you t. Falange
John Jones
its called "disturbing third-worldist genocide fantasy"
Sebastian Rivera
Yes, clothing is one of the oldest social constructs, kudos. Just don't come crying to me when the multicolored-mohawked, spandex-pants-wearing demiagender at your side makes every prole you try to give a pamphlet to walk away with barely contained contempt.
As far as Lenin goes, that's just wrong. Russian bougies and statesmen not of aristocratic or military background all dressed some variation of suit, vest and tie, and in Western Europe even proles dressed that way when outside the workplace. You wouldn't be able to spot him if he snuck in a Duma session.
Not to mention it's Spectacular as all fuck, turning a political act into a literal circus.
Action Philosophers.
y tho
I'm not advocating for some gay-ass Sturmabteilung shit.
So cops can more easily infiltrate them?
Parker Harris
If that's the case, then I'm not sure I want to
Samuel Evans
it's our gesture, you'll not take it away from us
Aaron Barnes
"our gesture" makes us look spectacularly autistic.
Jayden White
Hell no.
The left should go back to doing drugs and promoting sexual freedom. This whole "degeneracy" shtick is getting old for the population and less and less people are having the same memories their parents had as kids.
These straight edge nazi faggots are shooting themselves in the foot not understanding the appeal of filth through the ages by the scorned and the unwanted.
They can't explain it's appeal without conspiracy theory.
Our strongest asset is recruitment via sex and drugs, it always has been. Nazis too, they don't get cracked over meth for fucking nothing.
I'm not advocating meth but this whole anti drug "clean up" shit just reeks of police officers posting here.
Justin Cruz
It's been body language made to communicate various ideas for centuries upon centuries
Anthony Ramirez
Hoxha had the right idea banning beards tbqh
Ryan Perez
Hoxha had the right idea about feminism.
Caleb Clark
maybe for you, if you're so completly cynical that you don't get this body language