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6/29/2025, 10:32:42 PM
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This kind of thing goes all the way back to the 1960s when the CIA funded left-wing anti-communism in the guise of the "New Left". This was the original implementation of controlled opposition in politics. The ruling class could not allow for the existence of actual socialism in a form that would threaten capital, so they cultivated this toothless version of it instead, mainly aimed at the young and the naive.
You're 100% correct to notice that there are "developmental" stages that burgeoning socialists are filtered through to make them as weak, useless and ignorant as possible, while still feeling as if they're fighting the good fight so to speak. They're usually roped into pseudo-left politics when they're in college, be it by Trotskyite parties recruiting on campus, or by left-wing anti-communist college professors. This is the infant stage.
From here, they become indoctrinated as intersectionalists: they are taught to believe that class struggle is pointless, and that the real battle lines and drawn along the boundaries of race, gender, sexuality ect. This is the pubescent stage.
Finally, many of them come to realise how idiotic all of this is, and they happily discard their fake "socialism", become standard issue liberals instead. In some cases they even become conservative or more economically right-wing, and a small amount of them continue beating their heads against the wall for the rest of their lives. This is the final stage, the full maturity of the castrated pseudo-leftist. Their revolutionary energy has been siphoned off and wasted on this meaningless nonsense and they are now completely inert political actors who no longer pose a threat to capital.
This kind of thing goes all the way back to the 1960s when the CIA funded left-wing anti-communism in the guise of the "New Left". This was the original implementation of controlled opposition in politics. The ruling class could not allow for the existence of actual socialism in a form that would threaten capital, so they cultivated this toothless version of it instead, mainly aimed at the young and the naive.
You're 100% correct to notice that there are "developmental" stages that burgeoning socialists are filtered through to make them as weak, useless and ignorant as possible, while still feeling as if they're fighting the good fight so to speak. They're usually roped into pseudo-left politics when they're in college, be it by Trotskyite parties recruiting on campus, or by left-wing anti-communist college professors. This is the infant stage.
From here, they become indoctrinated as intersectionalists: they are taught to believe that class struggle is pointless, and that the real battle lines and drawn along the boundaries of race, gender, sexuality ect. This is the pubescent stage.
Finally, many of them come to realise how idiotic all of this is, and they happily discard their fake "socialism", become standard issue liberals instead. In some cases they even become conservative or more economically right-wing, and a small amount of them continue beating their heads against the wall for the rest of their lives. This is the final stage, the full maturity of the castrated pseudo-leftist. Their revolutionary energy has been siphoned off and wasted on this meaningless nonsense and they are now completely inert political actors who no longer pose a threat to capital.
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