Am I deradicalizing?

You may have failed to notice, but communism as a mass movement is fucking dead. If you were getting into this with the expectation of participating in revolutionary action, you should really adjust your expectations. We'd be lucky to see the radical left revived as a group worth taking seriously at all.

It takes a lot of effort to maintain a principled leftist position without interacting with other leftists. Just please don't retreat from reality and become an internet tankie, we really don't need more of those.

Have you tried ebook readers? Maybe you have a friend who can lend you one to try it out.

Hello 2008 user how are you enjoying Blockbuster?

don't let theoretical and practical isolation bother you too much tbqh

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more seriously, you'd think there would be infinite potential for radicalisation in vast swathes of that country, as long as you aren't in one of the well-to-do liberal cities, and even there shit like awful public transport, absurd rents, drug abuse, criminalty etc that should give you plenty of ammo to get people to see the system isn't working for them
I guess the problem in that country compared to Europe is that people don't even care about extreme commercialisation and so it is harder for people to associate their problems and the ills of society with the system itself

learn greek, move to exarchia where all the anarchists are and fuck with golden dawn retards.

Well I think it's normal that things go up and down as far as invovement goes. The global situation does not help at all, honestly.

You really can live without hope for so long before you start looking for something else.

The longer you are a leftist, the more hopeless you become tbh

You could always
Start a chapter

I'm honestly so tired of this "hiding your power level" shit and extreme pessimism. Communism picks up momentum when people are open about it. I've been an open communist in the middle of Trump country for months now and at worst nobody fucking cares and they assume It's a phase. Even my lolbert acquaintances still talk to me about politics. If there is no one around you who already agrees with your ideas, you're going to have to do the hard work required to get them to understand your position. If you revert to liberalism, please remember you're living a lie for your own relative comfort. If you deradicalize, it's only your fault.

Do you have to be an exemplary enlightened proletarian every fucking day? Can't you just get on with your sucky life and still think we need a more reasonable mode of production that isn't complete insanity?

Idk where you live but I doubt there isn't an IWW, SA, D.S.A, ISO, or PSL branch nearby. If you're having trouble finding even socdems than certainly any of those orgs are more than good enough

Get a backlit e-ink reader instead of some LCD device. E-book readers are mostly used for EPUBs and shit. At least mine is kinda crappy for PDFs, tho they're readable too.

Most americans think that the system is working, just they're not on the train yet.

Americans aren't temporarily embarrassed millionaires. They know they're not going to be rich. They just all want to be middle class. "Bootstraps" isn't a meme about becoming a porky, it's one of "becoming middle class". It works just barely enough that they can hang on to it indefinitely as their cure-all.

How unsurprising.

OP made it very clear he'd settle for mild socdem and lifestylism since his problem is not having any ostensibly leftist friends irl

Sure, it's just that the system is for the bourgeois, and the middle class is getting shafted by all the turboliberalism, which is the logical conclusion of capitalism. according to plan t.Marx
and where goes middle class so goes the bedrock of liberal democracy - the liberal civil society.

I agree with that. It's just that the mass radicalization won't happen until the middle class is just entirely gone and not even a dream any more.

Make new friends or move tbh. Aside from my family, I don't really talk to liberals anymore. It's great.

Otherwise I'm in the same situation, op. It's hard to choose between staying in this shit country to try and maybe fix or change things or to just save up enough money to nope the fuck out somewhere.

Not really. I feel the same way. America/Canada are pretty right-wing countries and it can be really alienating.
To be frank I feel the same way. I'm a Marxist but I support social democracy because muh overton window, but even social democracy makes people's head spin. I'd say things are getting a bit more left now but change takes time.
If you want some pure concentrated suicide fuel read 'Capitalist Realism'. I can send you the ebook if you'd like. The author hanged himself after writing it.

The only way to really de-radicalize is to somehow develop super right-wing views (like neocons did) or to not read any theory and be a complete brainlet who regresses into liberalism.
Having lefty friends to talk to, even if online is a big help. I have a small discord community if you'd like to join.

wdhmbt

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Agreed. Not everyone has to be the next Lenin.

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interested

It should be shilled more tbh

I'm the same

What am I if I believe the following?

Depressed, probably.

holy shit, revleft has been online for a while.
revleft.space/vb/

*all the more isolated and hopeless

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Turn him into a qt trap and finally
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The only way to continue your growth with Marxism is to read. Buy the books of you have to but all I get from your post is you are finding excuses. You don't need to join a socialist group to be involved in your community. I help with sorting high school books and help the food pantry. I don't give people pamphlets or preach about how bad capitalism is. I just help around and if politics come up I mention I am a communist. Sometimes they are shocked and repeat the basic spiel of anti-commie propaganda but many question their assumptions and agree with most of what I say.That's where reading is important. A general rule of thumb is If you can't explain it to someone you don't understand The material yourself. The issue is they feel a "learned helplessness". I learned this tactic when coming out, being a woman, and Brown because once people see you are not the stereotype but an actual person. They are more receptible to the ideas and what you have to say. Not going to lie, It takes a fucking lot of work.

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Totally agree. It frustrates me to no end that people think they can be radical leftists and not even discuss their ideology with friends and family. It is literally the least one can do.

Is this a new meme?

You can get used kindles for like $30 at most on Amazon.

When they talk about being middle class, remind them about Hourglass Economy.

They want to be rich, they just slowly gain conciousness. I consider it a win for us. They try to bargain, its a step to accept communism.

Go fuck yourself. You are not touching my boyfriend

I try not to make excuses. I seriously consider myself a leftist but it's very exhaustive. And this fucking election made things 360% more exhausting.

No I read Stalin. I didn't like his theory tbh.

I live in a very very hardline conservative region. I grew up as a conservative, my family is relatively conservative. Literally the one social democrat family that existed here were shunned out of the area and eventually moved. Some kids even got kicked out of their homes for being gay or even worse being bi. I can't afford to move out of here yet but if I could I would.

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Reply your username and I'll let you in. No tanktards pls

youtube.com/watch?v=w9X606X6PRQ
I'd recommend that you give this video a watch OP. Regardless of how you feel about muke, I think it's solid advice. Anyways, I think that you shouln't hide your political views. Don't shove them into every context, but when politics comes up among your friends, don't hide them or be a dick about them either. Their internal range of accepted political views will never change if you stay silent. If they don't respect you for your politics, try talking to them individually and let them know how you feel, and that friends should respect each other regardless of politics. If they can't understand that, then you should honestly try to find some better friends.

Thanks dude