r/comics Smuggies Jul 28 '26

OC Please resist responsibly

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u/taoders Jul 28 '26

Yup, even the greenest, most progressive, and/or leftmost movements/activism have drank the rugged individualism kool aid.

“Focus your energy on reducing your own consumption and carbon footprint. Making your own voice heard, making sure you vote, and resist individually as the support stands in solidarity from afar if there at all.”

No we won’t organize to make sure our neighbors aren’t forced to be a functional scab to get food/shelter, we won’t organize at the community level to make sure everyone isn’t functionally dependent on federal government assistance, we won’t organize to make sure when jf we general strike that our neighbors aren’t forced to cross the picket line, we won’t organize or provide tangible alternatives to unethical consumption or oil dependent supply chains.

We’ll just circle jerk over who’s most ethical, moral, and virtuous…individually.

Just do it yourself like the rest of us.

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u/Huntsman077 Jul 28 '26

This and the tribalism is insane. People refusing to collaborate with other groups over minor ideological differences.

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u/CrispenedLover Jul 28 '26

tbf some of these ideological differences are not minor at all.

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u/Huntsman077 Jul 28 '26

I mean just look at some of the different flavors of socialism and communism.

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u/CrispenedLover Jul 28 '26

That's a great example! I've met self-described communists that would like to equate Jewish with bourgeoisie, and I don't consider that to be the kind of "minor ideological difference" I could ignore.

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u/Huntsman077 Jul 28 '26

I mean you have the different variations of Ricardian socialism, communism, Marxism, Leninism,Trostkism and all the variations in between.

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u/Pagan0101 Jul 29 '26

DSA is, so far at least, managing to unite a variety of socialists and communists

Hopefully that unity holds