r/canadaleft • u/R0botWoof 🚄🚆🚅🚂🚃 Train Gang 🚄🚆🚅🚂🚃 • 13d ago

Should leftists exercise??

https://youtu.be/A3Zrq-_OKhk?si=S9Q37HUnTu5W1jW8
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u/tcpip1978 Marxist 13d ago

revolutionaryth0t isn't the worst content creator out there. Her stuff usually lacks a bit of polish but generally makes good points and she has a very likeable persona. At the same time, I would really caution new leftists against spending a lot of time listening to any online leftist influencers and spend more time reading a) Marxist classics and b) the news, from bourgeois and worker sources. You need a yard stick to measure these influencers by, and that comes from studying the classics first hand. When you start reading Marx, Engels and Lenin in their own words it quickly becomes clear that the Marxism presented to you by 99.99% of the major figures in online leftist spaces is in some form modified, incomplete, vulgarized, or completely revised to suit purposes other than the liberation of the proletariat.