Pill Pod 11 - Make (Left) Ideas Public Again (Exclusive)
Added 2020-08-07 20:28:15 +0000 UTCHey Patrones, Plasticpills is out for the week with a grisly shoulder surgery, but meanwhile the Pill Pod discusses their skirmishes with the alt-right, and why it's important to get left ideas online in new media.
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This pill has an impressive expiration date with Israel pink washing on air currently and Cornell West reclaiming his credentials with a presidential run
Kainoa Written
2023-12-09 06:40:51 +0000 UTCI see a lot of people talking about how the left isn't as successful at the right at convincing people and while that's true, I don't think it's something you can really blame the left for. People forget that the right wing have a significant advantage over us on the left: their ideas, their solutions to the myriad sociopolitical problems we face are easy. They're just like, 'oh, it's all the *insert minority here*'s fault, we just need to keep them out/legislate against them and everything will be fine! Meanwhile leftists are like: yeah, you need to learn about all these socioeconomic conditions that structure your life and society, you need to question all these truisms you've taken for granted all your life and basically your entire worldview needs to fundamentally shift. The left is fighting against an ideology which has never been more technologically buttressed or ingrained in human history before. There's a reason Capitalist Realism was written in 2009 and not in the 60s. In short, I don't think you can just blame the left for not succeeding like its a problem with organising, a problem with the communication of ideas. The ideas themselves are not only complex but require a radical shift in worldview, something many aren't willing to make. Meanwhile, the far right doesn't require this at all, they're not asking you to question capitalism or anything, just to support them in weeding out the 'degenerates' and we'll all return to a simpler, better time.
anacidcommie
2021-03-27 21:04:19 +0000 UTCTo the attempt to come on up with a term for when you say one thing that someone immediately uses to dismiss you as being on the other side, I think "splitting" is pretty apt. But less psychological, more political.
Louise
2020-09-13 15:21:50 +0000 UTC
