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Sat down with an old acquaintance for the first time in a couple of years yesterday and she’s unsurprisingly turned into a complete radlib. Not the screeching twitter type, she’s extremely well meaning and nice about it.
I haven’t talked to someone with politics like that in a while and man are discussions with them hard. They have such a fundamentally different philosophical disposition. Their entire worldview and ideology is idealistic. Talking to them as a Marxist is frustrating as hell, because dialectical materialism is so so foreign to them and creates difference on every single issue in every conceivable way. Class is missing entirely in their world, so no matter the topic you always have to explain your position from the ground up, starting at the very basics.
It’s kinda interesting too, but in a way it feels like talking to a toddler.
Yet as a Marxist my contributions to conversations are shrugged off as liberals for being “too idealistic.”