They’ll talk for half an hour about university reform but the moment you ask “who owns the coal mines” or “where does the lithium come from” they say they haven’t thought about it then they get mad at me when I say the Nordic model is fascist
I can bait the ADHD ones into reading theory by simply using enticing vocab words but idk how to deal with everyone else
I don’t think it really matters at this point.
Engaging in debates or seeking to “correct” people isn’t going to achieve anything.
Just get them to join an org or a union. Politics will follow action.
It’s not very difficult to get people to realize that the Democrats or whatever “mainstream left” party are actually neoliberal, and it’s not difficult to get them to realize neoliberalism is the problem.
If they can see that there is a system and that politics are part of that system, that the system perpetuates itself, then the rest falls into place.
I do agree that generally politics develop through action, but if the action is with the majority of organizations one could choose from in the west, it could easily reinforce a rad lib path that many never grow out of