> The realization that Marxist and Anarchist philosophies are stupid leaves people wondering how they can actually help others instead of wanking over their ideology
Speak for yourself. That's a terminally online response, and lumping those two things with such a wide sweeping conclusion is meaningless. Marxism contains many parts and includes timeless methods like dialectical materialism which can be used as a framework for direct action.
> Many people from the Occupy era have come to realize that their movement was a huge waste of time because it focused all of its energy in vague directions with meaningless slogans
Nobody worth taking seriously would expect fully automated luxury space communism to unfold the second some disenfranchised people gather in a park, or by backing somebody like Bernie for president. Capital would never let itself lose its dominating power that easily. But the very acts of these gatherings and the energy it carries forward is not insignificant, and something is collectively learned at each turn for those tuned in. And as things continue to fall apart, more people tune in.
Speak for yourself. That's a terminally online response, and lumping those two things with such a wide sweeping conclusion is meaningless. Marxism contains many parts and includes timeless methods like dialectical materialism which can be used as a framework for direct action.
> Many people from the Occupy era have come to realize that their movement was a huge waste of time because it focused all of its energy in vague directions with meaningless slogans
Nobody worth taking seriously would expect fully automated luxury space communism to unfold the second some disenfranchised people gather in a park, or by backing somebody like Bernie for president. Capital would never let itself lose its dominating power that easily. But the very acts of these gatherings and the energy it carries forward is not insignificant, and something is collectively learned at each turn for those tuned in. And as things continue to fall apart, more people tune in.