Poor people with poor class consciousness are apt to fall for false consciousness.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I hate capitalism because I am bored
When someone makes more money in an hour than we make in a year, we're all poor.
Now wheres our drawing of a hamas fighter gunning down epstein friends?
Look, I might not know much about this whole "reading and writing" thing, but I do know them smary pants billionaires do it all the time and they all ended up being child rapists so I sure and hell ain't gonna try to learn it.
/uj
People read communist theory because they want to find the root causes of their own and societal poverty. So they're not really separate social groups / classes, one person is just asking the why and the other isn't.
Obviously poor people can't read
/rj
I started reading theory because I'm working class. I already hated capitalism, but didn't understand the ways it works or what needs to be done to establish socialism. I wrote a basic ML study guide if anyone wants a place to start!
Feel this. I am at a point in my life where $2 is a game changer for my daily wellbeing.
You can borrow $10 if you sign this contract promising to return it to me with 9000% interest by tomorrow or else the interest rate increases 9000% on top of that every minute after the original agreed return time.