@lzg if you ever get the time check out Johathan Rose's Life of the British Working Class has an entire chapter dedicated to the messy relation between working class people and british communists and how many working class people were turned off by the emphasis on structural forces dominating everything which went against the self-directed aspirations of working class autodidacts (which you needed to be to understand marx!)
@lzg I think about posts like "normalize..." that should read "I, personally, need to get in the habit of" or "I'm personally peeved by this interaction I had." Or anything that tries to turn I into the royal we.
@lzg it's a weird sort of timidity on the part of overly bold people. Like they don't want to be seen as talking about themselves too much but it's way worse to talk about yourself and try to make it look like you're talking about everything. As though the whole universe is contained in you, some limousine liberal who gets paid for your half-baked opinions.
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