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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985
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Extreme purist obsessiveness and a big ego does wonders. If you cling to every word, even if you preach against dogmatism specifiically, you become dogmatic because now you are merely parroting phrases rather than analysing the material reality around you.
My first interaction with him was basically, "hey thanks for doing these audiobooks, I've recently become interested in Marxism and Buddhism and you've taught me a lot on the former." He then preceeded to over the course of 4 or 5 days argue with me over my personal choice to believe in reincarnation and no-self. It was pissing me off how superior he was trying to be to me in return so I kept arguing back (I shouldnt have bothered really). I tried to be respectful while holding my own and I told him let's agree to disagree three or four different times until he eventually stopped.
Deeply unserious behavior. Shows a complete lack of ability to prioritize what is important and what isn't. Sectarian mentality. One of the most important things we need to do if we want to grow our movement is to identify and suppress this type of behavior and this way of thinking in ourselves. It doesn't mean we have to agree with everyone's positions or beliefs, but we need to be able, at least temporarily, to put aside differences that don't matter right now and focus on what actually matters.
Class unity, the advancement of national class consciousness, opposing reformism, keeping grounded to materialism, rejecting imperialism, fascism and so on matters far more than whether you think God exists, or the complex morality of euthanasia, or the logsitics of sex work, or whether my peepee smaller than yours for example. It's barely relevant lol.
37 centimeters / 15 inches btw, no cap chief. edit: sorry i forgor the decimal point, 3.7 / 1.5.
He is genuinely a debate pervert.