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Anyone that wants to build a leftist movement in the US and doesn’t think that radical political education needs to be at the center of it should not be trusted. No more “it’s not my job to educate you.” We need to educate everyone. We need people to be angry that they are being robbed.

I've replaced phrases like "It's not my job to educate you" with "read [insert socialist/communist author here]"

Someone says some ignorant shit? Read Ta-Nehisi Coates. Someone lies about socialism as a concept? Read Marx. Read Lenin. Read Trotsky.

This is where I think zines/memes/short video can be helpful at distilling the basics for people that aren’t going to sit and read entire books written in language that can be inaccessible.

We really need a modern Communist Manifesto.

someone get Wiley to print a Marxism for Dummies book

There's a documentary called "The Big Scary S Word" that's pretty good about it, although if people can't read a book, they probably won't watch a film either

I’d posit that someone who wouldn’t read Jeanette McCurdy’s book would watch an 8 hour video on iCarly.

Ironically her book as an audiobook is 2 hours shorter