As you know, I listen to a lot of lefty podcasts. On many of them, I hear
socialists whose purpose for having a podcast or for being on it, is to
educate people about socialist theory, to show them how it applies to our
lives, to propagandize or organize. They never use the orthodox terms that
one would find in serious books on the subject like "class enemy" or "ruling
class" or the terms for the classes as defined in Marxist theory. I suspect
that the reason is that the terms are offputting. The idea is to communicate
with large masses of people. The idea is to convince people of certain ideas
so they use the words that will be most useful to them., words that won't
turn people off. Also, I would think that if one wanted to build a mass
movement, one would want to be as inclusive as possible. You'd want as many
people as possible to feel welcome and valued. In order to do that, you
wouldn't criticize people who didn't accept every precept of your group.
You'd emphasize the beliefs that people had in common rather than derogate
them for ideas that didn't conform to your's. So, in order to fight against
the current hyper capitalistic international power structure which is
killing our planet, you'd gather together people who were in favor of
everything from a social welfare state to those who want no state at all,
but small democratically organized economies and communities.
Miriam
