Manifesto is an easy read, but probably not the best introduction. There was a good beginner reading list posted around here recently, I agree with their recommendation of Harman's "How Marxism Works" pamphlet. Super fast read, and can really help capture people's attention to read something a bit longer form.
Don't always agree with a lot of Harman, but he gives a really easy to understand overview.
I used to make death threats to people over the internet. Then I realized something: either your threat is empty and you're an all-bark-no-bite cringebaby, or you're actually in a position to kill them, in which case just kill them. Making threats only leaves a paper trail.
I'm expecting a lot of epic logical reactions to such criticism such as more "who hurt you?" and cherry-picked quotes from leftist thinkers that make it seem like everyone from Marx onward was writing a longhand version of "let people enjoy things. My entertainment has no effect on me which is why I'm this mad about you criticizing it. Criticizing my treats is against Materialism(tm). touch grass touch grass touch grass."
Not op, and I agree, but wanted to clarify what I think is that commenters thoughts and why they might have said what they said.
The point is that they don't know what it's like to not have running water, and they just can't mentally put themselves in the position of someone who doesn't have it, making it hard to emphasize and thus, fight for the rights of those people, instead of, for example, caring about if they have a new car every 3 years (or funko pops as the deprogram guys joke about).
this could honestly be a hilarious unintended callback to the start of Hexbear when we forked away from lemmy - for some reason, emojis used to resize/expand when you hovered over them, and the emoji for the hexbear logo was like 3000x3000
so when it wound up in one of our site taglines at random, it broke the whole page
Probably thinks the U.S. military has that covered. It would be funny to watch their reaction to the pacific fleet getting owned before the retaliatory nukes fly.
You don't even have to go that far to find people they call tankies. Just the other day I had the immense privilege of witnessing a lib call an anarchist Mastodon instance tankie because they saw someone talk about killing all billionaires
They have clearly never actually met a rat because they are awesome animals. Way more intelligent and friendly than anyone give them credit for. Amazing survivors in the wild, amazing companions too.
Rats get a really bad reputation, they make great companion pets. Extremely smart and social, very clean. Not too demanding to take care of as long as you are willing to spend time with them.