• GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m an ML too, they aren’t rare here, but extended dialogue between liberals and MLs is rare from what I’ve seen (though not totally unheard of). Usually the liberals are either very avoidant or combative (and sometimes the MLs get pretty combative too, tbf), which prevents there being any kind of understanding. between speakers.

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      1 year ago

      Oh I am so sorry, I miss understood what you where saying, in that case 100% agree with you, liberals are both more likely to talk to a right winger and to hear them out.

      • GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        No worries :) Yeah, I think the main thing is just that an open Marxist is really rare in western society outside of some academic spheres (which is, uh, not always a glowing recommendation, and there are many more anti-marxists there anyway) so we just don’t “really exist” in a neoliberal’s personal experience and therefore can be written off without consequence in their view.