[Ajay-p]

I think it goes beyond communism. There is a victim/outrage mentality in some people, and I get the impression they will always look for something to be outraged about. From what I have read of communism it is not based on a personality of playing the victim, and constantly looking for something to be outraged about.

[0xbadc0de5]

> From what I have read of communism it is not based on a personality of playing the victim, and constantly looking for something to be outraged about.

It absolutely is. Proletariate vs bourgoisie in Marxism and Maoism. Kulak in the Russian revolution, Red vs Black identities in the Chinese cultural revolution. Only in the modern Western incarnation, it's ineffective to leverage economic classes since Capitalism leaves everyone better off economically than Communism (even the Communists have documented this). So instead they put their effort toward stoking racial divides and social justice to create the aggrieved class that can be leveraged as activists.

It's no coincidence that nearly all social justice thought leaders are self-described Marxists and that huge swaths of their literature view the world through that lens.

When someone tells me they're a communist. I tend to believe them.

[enterprise_cog]

Apparently pointing out that society discriminates against certain people is “stoking racial divides”. Or pointing out that society is biased in favor of others is “creating an aggrieved class”.

The thing is, the divide has always been there. Pretty sure slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, gerrymandering, etc… created that racial divide. Pretty sure institutional and societal sexism, homophobia, and various other biases that have been left unchecked created that aggrieved class.

People who point that out and try to organize around fixing those biases aren’t making victims. The victims were already there. They are trying to empower those people and change society so it victimizes people less.

Also, during all this organization, class consciousness is clearly pushed and communicated. To say there are no class issues in the west cause everyone is rich, apparently, is absurd. The reason people don’t talk about class is because everything in western society works to make people ignorant of class issues.

[RhysU]

It is, at least, classical communist strategy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

> Secondly, it would educate the proletariat in Marxism in order to cleanse them of their "false individual consciousness" and instill the revolutionary "class consciousness" in them.