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There's a not uncommon tendency among leftists, and especially MLs where they want to consume the "right" kind of information, as though reading anything that isn't the most pure, anti-imperialist, regionally specific Chinese news paper will taint them with liberalism.
No baby girl, you need to read liberal, reactionary, and other leftist sources in earnest, with a principled Marxist analysis, and genuinely understand them.
Tbh, I think this tendency is a manifestation of the western left's pseudo-Christian purity obsession.
sometimes i think the western left has basically entered the "early middle age Irish monks preserving the classics and also drawing anthro bunnies" phase
the purity stuff comes from the marginalization and effort to just keep the lights on right now
Oh yeah don't get me started on the left's residual Christian thinking. The amount of barely veiled protestant thinking is too damn high. The obsession with splitting is a perfect example.