The (not so) Complicated Mind of the Liberal

When it comes to political discussion, one the most frustrating mindsets that a Marxist can run into is the dreaded Liberal. Reasons that, until recently, have been beyond me to understanding the mind of a person that can be so openly confusing. I will be borrowing the next few minutes of your time to state and explain some observations I have made regarding Liberals and Liberalism. To avoid confusion, the titles will be used as the Liberal Perspective.

It’s Cool To Be Politically/Ideologically Inept



When conversing with a Liberal the other day it dawned upon me that one of the most common diversions that I run into when talking about politically or ideologically engaging topics is the simple “Well whatever, I don’t care about politics.” This is a particularly dangerous statement for many reasons. In the mind of a liberal, things like politics are seen as an intangible, unreachable, all seeing product of unchangeable nature. This is especially true because they, more likely than not, spent their whole lives under one system, more particularly in a privileged part of the world, where things are done for them. The concept of revolution or massive change is ludicrous to them because of the complexity of the situation. They are taught in school that the era of Ideology and Political Extremism ended after the cold war, most often in a very nice succinct, The good triumphed and evil perished.”

More often than not that particular statement is used as a perfect non sequitur to end any conversation that reaches beyond their capacity. The concept of Honing a Theory is alien to them because once again, In the modern world, there are 2 answers to every question; Liberal, or Conservative. Everything conceived as a simple black and white issue, with no room for grey. Thinking and studying political theory is seen as a waste of time because the world is taught that all of human history, and human nature itself, has raised itself to the natural occurrence of “Capitalism” and “Liberalism.”

“I’m not taking a side, I’m just stating facts”

The act of playing devils advocate and diminished responsibility is a tried and true liberal tactic. This can be especially frustrating because when it comes to arguments, the tables can be quickly turned when suddenly the player has flew up into the air, yet still participates in the conversation. The problem with arguments is that there is always some sort of bias, toward any conversation that has to do with picking sides. So to say that you don’t believe one or the other, you have already forfeited your true participation in the conversation. You can now, no longer be incorrect because you have stated “Ah but you see, I am just stating facts.” If anyone claims that they are going to “Play devils advocate” you should abort and leave the conversation as quickly as possible. Playing devils advocate is just a guise for stroking their own ego.

“Those poor people are just brainwashed”

In Cuba recently, the leader, Fidel Castro died. Liberal media (of course) took this moment to immediately rush in their opinions of the “Brutal totalitarian dictatorship that killed millions.” They immediately associated Cuba as a place where freedom of speech (The most sacred of rights) is not tolerated, and everyone there has to agree and worship their god king Fidel.

The issue however, is that when interviewers were sent to Cuba they found out very quickly that people are in fact critical of Fidel, quite openly in-fact. Yet he is still seen as a hero of the people, and an Idol for sure.

For liberals, the only explanation for this is that they are brainwashed. These poor people, although just demonstrated that they do, are not capable of freedom of thought because they have been brainwashed by the evil communist dictatorship, therefore Communism is evil.

“Violence has literally never solved anything ever”

Nonviolence protects the state, and apparently the minds of liberals. To liberals, the act of violent protest is just seen as a chaotic nothing. This often comes into play with “The all good heroes” such as Martin Luther King. One of the most egregious examples is when the upper and middle class liberals got upset when protesters stood in the street to gain media attention. Left and Right winged mass media immediately condemned this as something that “Martin Luther King would never do.” How dare you protest out in the open like that, slowing the progress of society for 2 hours. A quick sift through google images remedies that MLK did infant protest on streets, blocking traffic.

“Gandhi just sat down and asked politely for India back from the British.” More often than not people associate Gandhi as the perfect person that single handedly sat down and didn’t eat food for a little bit, and was given the keys to India once again. Yet Liberals somehow at the same time very openly admit that they don’t understand much Revolutionary history. Perhaps they would be enlightened in learning about the many violent resistance movements during that time and that area such as;

Alluri Sitarama Raju: Freedom fighter that stood toe to toe with his indigenous peoples and fought the British.

Bhagat Singh: The socialist revolutionary that was hung for protesting and demanding equal rights for Indian political prisoners. And blowing up the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi along with Batukeshwar Dutt.



Madan Lal Dhingra, Udham Singh, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Henry Lui Vivian Derozio, Hemu Kalani. And many many more.

