Reply To: Satire and counterpropaganda.

No, covvie99, you are not a realist.

A realist investigates social appearance.

You are a naive realist.

You are indistinguishable among the common herd of capitalists, workers, conservatives, radicals who — as you say — desire “security, food and shelter and the opportunity to thrive, concentrate on those similarities between people and we can grow support for real change”.

If social desire conquered, it would have delivered “security, food and shelter,” etc. But, social desire has failed.

A naive realist — like yourself — might swallow his pride and humbly investigate social appearance to discover what social processes thwart, have always thwarted, and necessarily must thwart, social desire.

Until then you remain smugly indistinguishable among your kindred capitalists, workers, conservatives, radicals into whose naive skulls it has never penetrated that:

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For once, read our Object and Declaration of Principles and challenge your naive delusions about the reality of capitalist society.
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