My friends and I are all in our early 20s, most finishing/ out of college. A few years ago they were all liberals who either turned their nose up at the word socialism or were “apolitical”.
Now, having been through a pandemic, living through a housing crisis, working in minimum wage jobs, witnessing the rise of European fascism and seeing the sheer disrespect capitalists have for us, all of them, without exception, have become or are becoming leftists. I don’t even talk about politics that much with them, although they know I’m a communist. They have all voiced dissatisfaction with capitalism and named capitalism directly as the cause of their problems. Some of them openly call themselves socialist. None of them have any faith in liberals.
My main political issue now is to get them to become active in politics. I’ve encouraged them to join workers and tenants unions and will do that more every time I’m drunk. I try to get them to pro-Palestinian protests. I have high hopes that within a few years, I will successfully convert most of them to communism
it is never joever for the working class
The caveat here is that once you bounce back in your late 20s and early 30s, when you have financial stability and disposable income, how much the allure of liberalism will stick with you even as your mind and experience know that capitalism is inherently exploitative and destructive on an individual and planetary scale.
I’ve avoided this with one simple trick: remaining poor and financially unstable
Horrible as it be, I keep saying this; you can’t trust people that would benefit from leftist policies to actually be leftists uncritically. They might just be in it from a nigh-libertarian “me me me” approach that is entirely unbroken when they gain wealth and then do other shit
Hit em with those geopolitics, folks.
You misspelled “if”