I could be wrong since I wasn’t there…but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn’t happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.
It is both, both are necessary. Material conditions set the stage for struggle but it requires political education and organization to create radicals. The political education itself also emerges from conditions and history. They are co-creating.
I could be wrong since I wasn’t there…but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn’t happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.
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Now, we’ve been radicalized by living conditions and theory just pointed at the real cause.
It is both, both are necessary. Material conditions set the stage for struggle but it requires political education and organization to create radicals. The political education itself also emerges from conditions and history. They are co-creating.