/lit/ - Literature

Being a Commie in the 21st century isn't a real thing. It's just a retrograde LARP looking at the past and trying to jam it into the present for lifestyle purposes. There is no working class in the First World compared to the early 20th century and 19th. Class/economy has shifted dramatically, politics too. You aren't a plucky rebel, you have nothing in common with a West Virginian (white) coal miner, or a factory worker in Victorian England. You can openly state "I am a Marxist/communist/anarchist" in public with 0 backlash. You won't be fired from your job. You won't be harassed, demoted, and ostracized from society. There is no risk roleplaying a commie. The mythos you are trying to draw on for your gay little lifestyle experiment is absent. Marxism/communism as concepts have integrated with the thought process of Western elites. You can go to a university/college and easily find/form ones of these groups. Lecturers, teachers, even if they're just Liberals they'll be tacitly supportive or regard you as "idealistic" but a bit misguided.

Communism has been advertized in the West as a pseudo-rebellion from day one. Sid Vicious in the punk days really did want to be edgy and against contemporary society, so he put on a shirt with a Swastika. What happened? He was told by his agent to take it off and put a hammer and sickle on instead. Che Guevara t shirts, multiple movies portraying communists in sympathetic lights, Communists aren't threatening to the system anymore. Back in the 19th century and early 20th? Sure.

Communist thought has always attracted bourgeois sentimentalists and even aristocrats, like Lenin, Engels, the overwhelming majority of Marxist figureheads, but today it's even worse. Communism is an entirely middle class college kid "movement" (if you could even call it that). Again, it's a LARP profile, not a real response to a genuine problem. An inorganic wielding of an old corpse, propped up by egotistical cultists trying to seem 'revolutionary' while remaining comfortable. Marxist thought has so thoroughly fused with systemic forces you now have the strange child of it: these intersectional IdPol histrionics. There are no 'Old Marxists' left, because the poverty that sparked interest in these thoughts in the West has largely been alleviated. All you have left now is tranny, gay, pedo, nigger and other 'oppressed' groups (which aren't oppressed) to LARP for as surrogate proletarians. It's a joke. As a 21st century communist you are just a HR manager in training, spouting programming that is identical to that found in every major corporation.