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I'm sure you know a lot of these real communists and they don't exist entirely in your head
Well, the "real world" labor movement and activism is a great way to make all kinds of friends. A lot of socialists and a few communists, given the history of the movements. They tend to be actual adults too -- so very little drama.
I'm just glad I outgrew my "angsty teenage communist" phase where I was just an ass on the internet. Blindly quoting Marx with no self awareness or understanding of context. Hell, blindly quoting Marx before I realized sometimes even decent, intelligent people can have great ideas but still get parts wrong: he was a man, flawed as any of the rest of us.
Ha, could you imagine?
Levels of cap off the charts
Oh, I'm aware. There is drama to be had if that's what you want.
The nice thing about movements is you get to pick who you work with. You get small groups that do 99% of the meaningful work and a large "groups" that are just involved to make noise, feel like they did something, and accomplish ... absolutely nothing. The worst are the kind that want to raise "awareness" for something that everyone is already aware of, followed by the people that are just pissed off and can't be bothered to do anything productive with that anger.
Stick with the former: they're cool and they get shit done.
Cool story brah.
The fact that you're so focused on marx is really what showing your ass here. Almost like you're full of shit.
But also I and plenty of others do spend time organizing offline. Turns out I have the free time to both organize offline and post if I want to. Actually I suspect most anyone who does organizing has that much free time.
where would you say Marx went wrong? any particular critiques?
Well you clearly didn't outgrow your 'being an ass on the internet' phase.
I outgrew my angsty teenage communism and just got a new pair two sizes up. It's hard to follow the latest trends.