pinguinu

Just read On Practice. While reading it I thought about the scientific method since that's generally how the process to synthesize theory in the context of science is set out. But here, you need a hypothesis, a piece of theory with which you try to predict the result of a series of conditions within reality. This theory must come from a certain understanding of reality acquired beforehand. Therefore, for someone to use the scientific method, that person must have some experience, however flawed, in relation to the subject. Would this be correct? Does the process in which you begin to interpret data with no theory coming before it (which would kinda be the birth of a science), have a name?

In the US they had the Red Scare(s), and of course people are propagandized over here too, but not to such a level. The main reason as to why communist movements don't proliferate in Europe is said to be the social democracy, which alleviates inequality to a certain degree while keeping the mode of production that generates it.

With the 2008 crisis these social democracies have worsened sharply, but (from what I gather) communist movements didn't gain a substantial amount of followers.

From my experience as a zoomer, I had been told since primary school that democracy (and therefore politics) boiled down to voting, and the myths that communism was tried but failed and this is the best we will ever have. My family was affected post-2008 and everyone in my family gravitated (and still does) around the left. Later, as I grew up, I looked at communists not as foolish but as unserious; communism as an aesthetic and not a framework to view the world by and act accordingly. Like "haha fuck fascists" I actually thought it was cool but nothing more than that. This sensation was reinforced by how niche the communist party is (by number of votes, as that was "politics"). In the end, I was a politically inactive socdem.

This is why I think it's seen as "not an option" from a socdem perspective. Of course, it doesn't help that the communist party is in a socdem coalition. What worries me is that there's lots of people living in much worse conditions, but that discontent is only expressed as not voting, or turns reactionary.

What do you think? I'm trying to piece together why we're here and how (wrt communism in my country) but I just don't know anybody older than me. Does this make any sense?

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