I had the opportunity to speak and interact with younger University age people over the past few days (18-24 range) and I can only say that I am shocked by how it’s almost universal that they’re either irony poisoned fascists, genuine racists, or reactionaries of another sort. Pretty much politically as right wing as it gets.

I worry that the younger people in Gen Z may be potentially the most susceptible to fascist belief in a very long time, due to the combination of terribly bleak prospects and disillusionment, ease of access and exposure to all manner of online extremist pipelines (video game culture, red-pilling), and the overall deterioration of social skills from growing up hooked up to tech.

If we have any comrades around this age group, or with a lot of experience with them, do you find it to be similar where you are? Or am I just unfortunate to have a particularly sour batch where I happen to be?

  • ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    I remember once asking for pro-communists vids to counter capitalist narratives, a communist told me that we don’t need to push out ideology as any rational human being will come to it themselves

    We really need to up our fucking propaganda efforts, relying on the rationality of the imperial core is fucking nauseating.

    • ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml
      26·
      1 month ago

      Actually a prime example of this is crash course. For anyone unfamiliar Crash Course is a youtube channel run by John and Hank Green – this is a very popular choice for educators who need to take a break for whatever reason. The problem being they are libs and give the typical liberal idealist narrative of historical events. A communist version of crash course where historical events are analyzed but using diamat and hismat would be fundamentally game changing and would serve to make the masses more open to listening to our analyses.

    • ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml
      242·
      1 month ago

      As problematic as Bad Empanada is, for example, he does a pretty good job at pushing the disillusioned Hasan fans to the left. If you try to find high-school level material like youtube videos on communism youre going to immediately understand why were losing so badly.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      1 month ago

      a communist told me that we don’t need to push out ideology as any rational human being will come to it themselves

      As a rule I don’t fed jacket but that was a fed.

    • sangeteria@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 month ago

      I agree but frankly we don’t have the money to keep up with their shit.

      Also right-wing arguments are often easy, lazy lies. We can’t keep up with that bc unironically we do need to wall-of-text people most of the time.