When did Communists lose the plot? How do you go from "History is a series of class struggles and race and identity are meaningless icons." to "Vote Blue No Matter Who!" and "Trans Rights are more important than equitable distribution of wealth."
they never had the plot, but to keep things simple, in the west the 1960s, everywhere else the 1990s when they realized it was well and truly over, the remaining communists were retards or LARPers
>>18699905When glowing federal agents started funding the Frankfurt School to move discourse away from class struggle and towards culture war and idpol nonsense in the 60s.There is no Left in America or Europe today.>https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/
>>18699905We didn't. We haven't changed. Reactionaries just keep coming up with dumber and dumber ways to smear us.
>>18699905According to Karl Marx american communists cared more about women rights nad blacks than they cared about the class struggle. He disliked them.
>>18699927World's most delusional retard award.
>>18699927I am sure Mr. Marx would be a huge fan of delusional, lazy trannies that huff estradiol like it's opium.
It was inevitable because egalitarianism as an utopian ideal/endgoal is poison on the mind and fundamentally an emotional revolt against reality.
>>18699905The "original" Communism, whatever the fuck that even is, still exists primarily in the Third World. It became irrelevant in the West following the collapse of the USSR, prompting Marxists there to adopt "wokeism" which is more focused on sexual orientation, biological gender, and race.
>>18699922>>18699905The role of the Frankfurt School and Foucault in wokeness is extremely overstated. Adorno was attacked by a radical feminist. And the rise of the New Left was more a grassroots movement led by students, Marcuse wasn't the father of the movement but rather they just adopted his concepts, and he in many ways explicitly criticized many of the tendencies of the New Left. Foucault was pro-neoliberalism and his conception of power as not inherently evil is antithetical to wokeness.Half of leftists hate voting, and the other half only votes either if a politician is a leftist or out of lesser evilism. The tweet is obviously satirical (the red triangle indicates they are a pro-Hamas third worldist, and they overwhelmingly hate voting)The rise of the New Left is quite simple. White working class voters were fine with capitalism as long as it had a welfare state and pro labor reforms. Social democratic policies ironically killed the Old Left, they resulted in white working class voters losing interest in class issues and instead focusing more on social issues where they aligned more with the right. Post-ww2 capitalism is also very consumerist and more tailored around the daily needs of the proles unlike the 19th century barons and captains, so a working class right winger sees no need to topple the system. It didn't help that Leninism degenerated into oligarchal dictatorships The New Left recognized that the white working class was pacified and the Soviet Union was a sterile husk, and instead directed their energies toward the losers of Western society that in their eyes could act as revolutionaries against the order. Minorities, lgbt people, downwardly mobile college kids, sex workers, and so on. Hardcore third worldist revolutionary leftism is a lot more intellectually honest/consistent than the class reductionist and pro-electoral leftists who delusionally think there is a silent majority that wants socialist economics.
>>18699905Because """"leftists"""" in first world countries are just liberals that have co-opted marxist ideas as a facade
Communism was never taken seriously in America in the first place beyond it being the ideology of some of their political rivals, Communism in Europe died because the vanguards of it were a bunch of violent and retarded Slavs, so what you basically have left are just a bunch of socially progressive liberals who don't know what Communism actually is and a bunch of reactionary retards who enable them by also not knowing what Communism actually is
>>18700255This is just cope from class reductionist types who claim wokeness was invented by Hillary Clinton. The founders of the New Left were explicitly rebelling against traditional center left liberalism. Bill Clinton's and Obama's coalition were the last cry of the Old Left New Deal coalition if anything. Center left politicians like Hillary only adopted woke talking points because those talking points became mainstream amongst progressive staffers and activists.
>>18699905Old-style communism never turned into liberal left, they are two separate branches of leftist politics.
