The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
I think the same thing every time I look at home prices
“You’ll own nothing and like it.”
Crazy how many right wingers gesture at that sentiment and correctly call it bad.
Yet if you tell them “Then the solution is take it back and give it to people, right…?”
“No, no! How would I get to own my piece of the pie and make others rent from me?!” 🤦♂️
Insert another quote they love from Carlin “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!”
They love that one… but think membership slots are always opening up, I guess. Just 10 more years and ol’ Gil will be in the club! Oh boy!
I’ve always found this amusing with right wingers. They’re so very close to getting it, but they just can’t get past the indoctrination.
I think that some right wingers are closer to “getting it” than a lot of liberals are.
And actually when you think about it it’s not really that surprising, because the biggest determinant of how likely you are to develop class consciousness is your class, your actual material conditions. Poor, working class people are severely brainwashed with reactionary propaganda precisely in order to keep them from developing class consciousness. Racism and bigotry are used to prevent them developing solidarity with other sections of the working class. And yet still, many of these people are closer to seeing through the lies of the capitalist system than the relatively well-off “back-to-brunch” type of liberal, because of their lived experience of being exploited by capital every day.
In many ways right wingers are also incredibly naive of course and they constantly fall for the most obvious of lies when they are packaged in a way that plays on their prejudices, but at least they have an instinctive distrust of the mainstream media, while so many liberals basically worship establishment propaganda outlets.
You also see this in the almost paradoxical phenomenon where instead of being more likely to be critical thinkers, a certain type of university educated people are actually some of the least critical thinking and most group minded people you will ever meet, convinced that they are immune from indoctrination even as they completely uncritically parrot the imperialist line on almost every single geopolitical issue (Palestine being perhaps the one exception where the evidence is so grotesque and so obvious that the liberal establishment is forced to try and co-opt and shift blame rather than outright paint the imperialist proxy as the good guys).
