A Real-Time Response: It's Not Pragmatism for a Communist to Push Social Democracy; It's Defeatism, Resignation, Acquiescence, and Radical Acceptance
This is as the title said it is. It is not a bad faith argument but a reflection of the comprehension of people in the movement. This is a sincere statement, so if you cannot handle it, then you are in no place ready to be an influence or leader for a communist movement or revolution. In the US, the average person, the majority of the population, meaning the majority of voters, have a comprehension level of that of a 15-year-old or less. Medical reports suggest that up to 40% of the population is walking around with some sort of undiagnosed mental illness, condition, or disease. These are not insults; they are observable conditions produced by capitalism itself, by alienation, commodity fetishism, and the ideological apparatus of the bourgeois superstructure. Any serious communist strategy has to account for them. The question is not whether people arrive as ready-made revolutionaries. They do not. The question is whether our political work raises or lowers the ceiling of what people b...
