Honestly, a lot of communists on here are acting downright insufferable and callous towards the genuine pain felt by many disillusioned people right now, and it's unbecoming.

It may give some momentary measure of satisfaction to gloat about "how very clever and correct we were about the failures of social democracy and establishment politicians, and how utterly foolish the currently unradicalised working class are for falling for them"

But that's all that it gives. A temporary boost to our own egos. And it would be doing a disservice to both our assumed long-term goals, and to ourselves, to so readily forget a time when perhaps we too were not as enlightened as we are now.

It is easy for us as Marxists to scoff and dismiss the failure of the 'left-wing' of bourgeois politics, because we have learned to see it for what it is: a sham, part of the very mechanism perpetrating the unjust system of capital.

But for many of the working class who have not yet attained class consciousness, that failure represents a great, painful loss and despair for the future. The death of social democracy seems like the end to them because they are not yet aware of the alternative.

It is not our responsibility as Marxists to jeer or mock this pain, but to show them that alternative. To be patient, to talk to them, to understand their fears and uncertainties, and to make clear that the failure of bourgeois politics is not a tragedy, but an inevitability.

So I know it's all very tempting to try and squeeze in just another dunk on the berniebros/corbynites for our own amusement or sense of vindication but ask yourself, what is it accomplishing beyond that? And don't you just *maybe* remember being where they are now once yourself?

I certainly remember what kind of communist it was that helped me most when I was first struggling with my disillusionment with bourgeois politics, and it wasn't the ones that just QT'd me and called me an idiot for being ignorant of theory that I'd never been exposed to.