STORY TIME:
Any of you lads ever try to convince fellow colleagues or coworkers about the necessity of an alternate economic system? Basically advocate for communism without saying 'communism'?
I was at the breakroom at work the other day surrounded by four other colleagues and we were discussing employment opportunities for graduates, (3 of us are interns, other two are new graduates working at the company).
I haven't because most of the people are ardent anti-communists and one of them is even an ancap
Yeah I know it fucking sucks, I've managed to make inroads here but at the same time I've got this stupid liberal on my back equating fascism and communism
Even reading this is extremely uncomfortable.
This is why we need organizations. The idea of evangelizing communism on an individual basis is so weird because it's like, why are you even discussing ways to recreate our entire political system in a casual conversation with coworkers, probably between talking shit about someone and discussing the latest episode of Game of Thrones?
Dude, I know right? Like everyday I have to hear the hottest of takes like "you know if your a communist you must really love the government:" and *insert le funni maymay about people starving here* and "ancom makes absolutely no sense oh wow". Its so painful because its 200% obvious they have never read a single book.
I do it two fold, first to gauge opinions, second to see whether people would actually identify communism if you described it without using the word communism.
I posed this from the sustainability angle, and most of the people there are smart enough to figure out what I'm talking about. Everyone there was an Engineer, this wasn't like a casual conversation at starbucks.
Also the thing is like its not that far fetched, everything I spoke about is already being done today to some extent
sounds autistic. i hope you people are careful about this because it could very likely lead to you losing social capital in the company you work for if people think of you as "that commie guy". in the states, you can easily be fired if a right-wing colleague rats you out to the boss. "ughghgjg your performance has been dipping lately"
it's not worth hurting your livelihood to argue semantics, strawmen and non-sequiturs with pedants during watercooler breaks. waste of fucking time
I swear, lolberts have "Basic Economics" hammered into their head so hard they honest to god can't tell the difference between more advanced economic theory and no economic theory.
I don't live in the USA, I realise this can be dangerous, but most people didn't take it that seriously.
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Mind you these are engineers, and they aren't American
Why bothering to convince wageslaves?
How about join/create a communism club?
I have, many times. Convinced most of them too. It doesn't really get anywhere because no one I work with has time to be involved in politics (nor do I)
Because I want a bit of lively discussion, and also because I just want to help some proles escape false consciousness.
I know Mao is not best example but this quote is good.
You're probably being inconvenient without even noticing it. It's a horrible way to talk to others about communism.
I have, but the dude was already half way there.
You don't need to read a single book to become a leftist. How the fuck do you think any of the revolutions happened? Did Lenin sat there and read to all of Russia Das Kapital?
Everyone around me is apathetic.
Jesus christ, user
Never once spoke about Marx
Have you tried to start a co-op yet? Richard Wolff talks about how he goes to silicon valley engineering firms that are technically co-ops and freaks the republican employees out by telling them how democratic control is what socialism is.