LOL, making the Third Amendment to the Constitution of the USA relevant?!? What the fuck are you on? You’re a lower class Uighur with lived experience of the CPC but you view the world through the lens of the American Constitution as it was ratified in the late 1700s?
Get bent.
Oh there’s rent. Most US prisons charge per diem rates for housing, and they charge for many “services” and they charge literal extortion rates. Prisoners leave US prisons deeeeeply in debt
There’s a material reason (set of) that the left in the West abandoned building a critical narrative - persecution. In America they drove the left out and down. We’re not in a position in America for a left movement to succeed until we can actually build a left movement from the ashes. Said another way, we can’t win until we’re in a position to lose, and we’re not there yet.
And while I love the PSL for what they are doing, they have a very long way to go to build an actual movement that can lose.
Also, I know you don’t do this normally, but it really feels like your conflating liberals with The Left in this piece, and they haven’t been Left for 200 years.
The PSL is articulating a clear class analysis. And the reason it isn’t resonating widely is because the left was suppressed for 5 generations so very few people have parents, grandparents, or great grandparents that they could have learned from. So the PSL message is fighting against the deeply ingrained fear of social isolation, government oppression, and international evil demons.
This is a deep psychological problem and not one that can be overcome by better messaging. It can only be overcome through human relationship building over time and being ready to help people through crises in real time. When a person is in crisis they are most capable of trading one deep fear for another, but they will only do it if they have the support of others to make that trade. Right now, many people are trading their fear of being a bad person for the fear of the other being a bad person and hurting them. The Left needs to be there to help them see that communism does not make them a bad person but also that acting out of fear that “the other” is bad leads to bad outcomes for them. This is the trade that most people need to make. They fear accepting class analysis because they genuinely believe that it will harm them to believe it: they will become “evil”, their friends and family will abandon them, they will lose their jobs and be reld-listed, the government will oppress them, and bad communist people will take advantage of them.
Better messaging doesn’t solve this. Building a movement one person at a time does. It is easier to accept class analysis if you see lots of people doing it, a wide variety of people doing it, people who have loving families and decent standards of living, and people who are happy, healthy, secure, confident, and welcoming.
We have to work at all levels simultaneously, but look at the PSL and ask why centering class analysis for years has not led to the outcomes you are looking for.
No. That’s not true at all. Liberalism is a philosophy that centers power on private property whereas conservativism centers power on a sovereign monarch. Under liberalism, private property is the center of power, and that included chattel slavery. Liberalism is the doctrine that allows you to kill people for trespassing on your property. The logic of liberalism is that every square inch of the universe will be owned by someone and if you own nothing then you can die. Under liberalism, it is better that the homeless die than the state truncate the right of land owners in order to redistribute available wealth.
Liberalism is the philosophy that brought us enclosure. It’s the philosophy that brings us private military contractors. It’s the philosophy that brings us labor exploitation in factories.
Marxism is inherently ILLIBERAL. Marxism explicitly opposed the existence of private property. Leftism in the modern era is anti-private property and therefore it is illiberal.
They need to be educated