15 year old post-leftists on tiktok will type out “semiotic capital,” post their video, copy and paste “read debord/baudrillard/stirner” in response to every comment, and then log off feeling smarter than every revolutionary marxist to ever live.

no one is unintelligent or incorrect just because of their age. young people deserve respect for their scholarship and ideas. but post-leftism could be legitimately harmful to communist efforts if it ever left the internet. (1/2)

the fact that post leftism is mostly upheld by teenagers online, while marxism has been adopted by millions of workers and theorists around the world (with immeasurable success), is telling to me. (2/2).