Reform UK is clearly winning over the minds of class unconscious workers. One of them is a young relative of mine. I’d love to have a talk in future, in a good setting, to help the lad out of this reactionary path he’s headed now.
It’s the typical stuff: immigrants committing sexual violence, stealing jobs, out breeding the “whites”, coming into the country illegally, given all the money, not working, benefit exploiting, being uncivilised savages etc.
I’ve heard the co-workers are enforcing this reactionary world view. Obviously I cannot barge in to the workplace, and change the environment, so I’m expecting this will take quite a bit longer than one afternoon tea lasts.
I believe he’ll be a fine lad, if he doesn’t fall any further, and finds a way out. I just feel I shouldn’t let him to dive deeper. There is already plenty of fascist propaganda to dispel.
How would you, dear online comrades, go about setting a young lumpen lad on the path to gain class consciousness?
PS. Title in the tune of Drunken Sailor.
Material conditions include exposure to ideas and information. Materialism isn’t all just about people’s physical well being and wealth.
Materialism is the opposite of Idealism which posits that “ideas” are what shapes reality and nothing is concrete. Materialist analysis must incorporate ideas and thoughts by understanding that they are the result of physical processes and can affect reality by impelling physical acts.
israel is the most dangerous place for Jewish people and has been since it became a state. Why do they believe “Jews need a place of their own to be safe” and migrate to the worst place in the world to be Jewish? That is not materialist interest that is being brain washed to believe a lie.
The zionist entity is not in Jewish peoples best interest. (This is not a point of contention) Most Jewish people before the holocaust knew zionism was a bad idea but in the years after the Shoa the zionist propoganda machine (and terrorism against Jewish communities outside israel) brainwashed people into believing what their parents and grand parents knew was untrue.
Zionist Jews get to steal housing and have easy work and access to nice beaches etc. As settlers. The bargain that they have accepted is that they may have to join in on settler terror, and that sometimes there may be backlash if they don’t sufficiently crush their enemy. It’s not brainwashing. Israeli propaganda is meant to help massage their pathetic egos and give them justifications for being scum, not to brainwash them into being scum.
I’m not saying otherwise.
I am not sure what really to say here that is not just repeating what I said earlier.
Israelis do materially benefit from this exploitative relationship and it is idealism to think otherwise; you have anti-zionists views because of the struggles of the Palestinian peoples for national liberation not the other way round.
Well convinced them by offering an easy route to get a house, a hot “idf chick” and extractions from white supremacy (Judeo-Christian Values). So materialistic benefits.
Just the ideas of jewish exceptionalism, Promised Lands, pain supremacy,“we are under attack forevermore and need a shelter” and the zionist version of the “Christ of Europe” rhetoric, maintain and enlarge the materialist fundation of the settler colony.