We’ve reached the second iteration. There isn’t a lot separating us from the third iteration. And the material conditions were bad enough, at the latest, sometime between the first and the second iterations.
People know socialism exists. People are experiencing sufficiently bad material conditions that they want change.
People have picked up neoliberal ideas from living in a neoliberal society. These ideas give people a framework to process their material conditions so that they do not rise up in sufficient numbers. People need to learn that these ideas are part of an ideology designed to enrich the owner class at the expense of the worker class. Things will continue to get worse unless people understand that everyone needs to own their work.
This education is work that still needs to be done after hypothetically defeating the current fascist dictatorships and is probably part of what will be needed to defeat them.
I keep having this conversation with people and seeing the accelerationist line of reasoning, so I wanted to address it with a visual.
I am too dumb to understand what this means.
I’m always arguing about this topic with people. It definitely isn’t going to make sense without that context.
I prefer to think OP didn’t put enough thought or effort in the comic, making it hard to understand/follow
Job done.
I genuinely thought this comic was mocking leftists for not making good points and just wishing things would get worse until neoliberals convert to their like of thinking. Imagine my shock when I read that OP is a leftist and not mocking them in this post. It’s like when someone makes propaganda that ends up supporting the other side.
It’s mostly a critique of the accelerationist streak I see in other socialists. So it’s supposed to anti-accelerationist. When people talk about median-voter syndrome I think the ideas that most of those people have in common are neoliberal ideas. Of course that’s not to say it’s exclusively neoliberal ideas, just that it’s probably the most common. So neoliberals are probably the largest pool of people to recruit from.
As socialists we should be working to figure out the propaganda that will help to get people to reject neoliberalism en masse. That’s what I wanted to start working on with future memes, but it felt like it was important to explain why. I was hoping this would be a useful starting place to point people to if they ask me why I’m trying to make anti-neoliberal memes in the future.
But yeah, this my main critique of the arguments I encounter from socialists on lemmy. I think it benefits us to really examine this assumption, because the material conditions are really bad, but people are still saying they need to get worse.