user is right. we need better memes. Specifically memes that act as propaganda an appeal to apolitical normies or to centre left liberals.Use this thread to dump and critique commie memes. My suggestions to make lefty memes better
Leftist memes for normies and liberals
Alexander Hill
Nicholas Myers
nottu dis shittu agin
Justin Long
i didn't say the left can't meme, just that we need more normie-tier meme.
Elijah Robinson
Meh
I mean the guy in the image is 100% right about the left’s impenetrability as of late, I mean I don’t know anyone not already involved in them who honestly believes the cultism of the various Leninist/Trotskyist/Stalinist/Maoist/whatever the fuck else you can think of sects is ever going to amount to anything substantial. The dearth of “required reading” you’re met with when “getting into” leftism isn’t doing us any favors either, which isn’t to say that education isn’t extremely important, but there has to be a middle ground between idiotic zine/pamphlet culture and force feeding newbies 50+ books worth of history and theory.
The problem is that framing the solution in terms of branding/memes is meaningless as long as leftist working class institutions continue to be either nonexistent or wrapped into the NGO racket. Yes branding did create an online alt-right identity for alienated whites, but I’m sceptical about how far that really goes. Zig Forums makes a lot of noise, but how much has the reactionary internet subculture actually accomplished? I call bullshit on anyone who says Trump needed the (online) alt right to win, and the more outright white nationalist celebrities have been more or less banished back into obscurity in the past year. The branding/memes/identity strategy pretty much got the fascists nowhere in my opinion.
The left needs to build a social base through critical engagement with real issues faced by the proletariat before we even think about such a “public outreach campaign.” What I want are situations where otherwise depoliticized workers see someone they can identify as leftist expending real time and effort into concrete struggles these workers have to deal with on a day to day basis. Philly Socialists have actually been very good about this. You don’t have to read a lick of Marx to appreciate someone getting the manager who’s been sexually harassing you for the past year fired. Once the broader working class can en masse associate the left with real people who have directly improved their lives, we can start talking about crafting a public image. Starting with the latter is nothing short of opportunism, no surprising considering this post comes from a self-proffessed marketing major
Ethan Sullivan
That user is being opportunistic for making that point where OP was bitching about the Left's absence in children protest, which ironically would be opportunistic if they did actually show up
Alexander Sanchez
sage
Jayden James
I have a bit of a theory. As much as idpol is maligned I think it's the perfect trojan horse to convert liberals to leftists. They hate Backstabbin' Bernie but love AOC. It shouldn't be hard to put two and two together in your head and figure out why. Driving them further left than that is going to be a difficult task and it will take years. But with every stupid outrage cycle on Twitter these morons expose more of their weaknesses. Chelsea Clinton attacking Ilhan Omar came back to bite her in the worst way thanks to being on the receiving end of weaponized idpol. Keep this in mind when you're trying to make something catch on. Liberals pay lip service to the shit all day long but idpol memes like "white feminism" and similar things have the ability to wreck their shit in short order.
Nathan Sanchez
just droppin some memes here
Aaron Williams
Jose Miller
That's a good thing though. Also I wouldn't really call it 'idpol' if it's true. She's getting slammed for being an Islamophobe Israel shill not for being huwite or whatever.