Amerikkka is doomed to become fascist because a significant portion of its population is functionally illiterate, and too prideful to try to learn how to read. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Posadas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

I could be wrong since I wasn't there...but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn't happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

People rarely get radicalized by books and knowledge. People get radicalized by living conditions

Hexbear is a very biased population of people who have largely been radicalized by theory

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Now, we've been radicalized by living conditions and theory just pointed at the real cause.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

It is both, both are necessary. Material conditions set the stage for struggle but it requires political education and organization to create radicals. The political education itself also emerges from conditions and history. They are co-creating.