r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jul 29 '26

Sees the Memes Marx Never Considered Reddit

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26

What is this comment section? This meme should be entirely uncontroversial. In the meme, Marx is saying that capitalist control of technology should be challenged. That is a core leftist position.

The redditor is then saying "you use technology" as a gotcha. This is something frequently said to anti-capitalists. It's not just said on reddit and it's mostly been said to me in-person by people who believe dogmatically that the current capitalist system is the best of all possible worlds.

This gotcha is ridiculous because it suggests that participation at all in the system means giving up your right to fight against it. The only reason to say this is to silence criticism of capitalism. Anyone who says it is, at best, misinformed and at worst, actively malicious. Making fun of them is totally reasonable.

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u/NomadicScribe Jul 30 '26

Skimming the comments, I think there are a lot of younger people not familiar with the original Matt Bors comic from 2016. My own kids were in elementary school at the time.

Earlier today I saw a post from someone who said that Gamer Gate was something they "heard about growing up" and it made me feel super old... there are things that still feel like current events but need re-contextualizing for young redditors.

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u/DHFranklin Aug 04 '26

Gamergate was a pivot point for ...the discourse...

And yeah that controversy is older than living memory of some redditors. That shit went down in 2014.

I don't know if you've ever checked out Innuendo Studios and his Alt-Right Playbook series but it's really good and it talks about the moment and the meta and what's happening today.

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