No person in the world is as likely to fight their liberator or actively work against them as a liberal. Ask them about rising up against their oppressor, and they tell you it’s authoritarian. Ask them about the economic system and how to improve it, it’s class reductionist and idealist. Ask them about Palestine, and they are scared to voice an opinion because of the mainstream media. Do they trust the mainstream media? Of course not, they know it is all controlled by billionaires. The lack of dialectical materialism creates emotional-based reasoning that is justified afterwards with logic, even if the position is itself illogical. An example is anarchists or Western pseudo leftists when they defended the actions of the Ukraine regime and dismissed anything unfavorable to Ukraine as Kremlin propaganda. Even government surveillance has deemed anarchist groups safe and not a threat to anything because they are extremely unlikely to do anything or even challenge the status quo.

They listen to the mouthpieces of the regime such as state departments, news, and even politicians actively collaborating with the American government. They fail to realize that all warfare is based on deception and they get deceived by the class they are at war with. They understand that the regime is the enemy but still trust the news and the propaganda of the enemy. The enemy says that the people of Vietnam, China, or Cuba are oppressed by socialism, and they believe it. They never set foot in those places and may never even leave the United States, but for some reason they prioritize these ideas so highly about foreign government systems being oppressive despite not even doing the basics of research or even listening to anything non-western because it is authoritarian.

Another point that kills revolutionary thought before it can even begin is the fixation on specific non-economic issues that people see as being inherently incompatible with socialism despite it not necessarily having any correlation. Thailand is literally a monarchy and is known for progressive LGBT rights while America is an imperialist state bombing the world and funding genocide in Palestine while also having a society where pride festivals and parades are held. The government of a society does not inherently dictate the social trends of the society. Socialism is mainly economic with a predisposition of ending all kinds of exploitation, so this actually is more likely to lead to liberation of minorities and especially gender minorities since there would be a dialectical understanding of how gender, race, and class relate to the organization of labor and the distribution of resources in a society.

However, if all of the socially liberal people abandon socialism, it can be hijacked by reactionaries and patriotic socialism types who will distort the ideology. Failing to defend the ideology from revisionism allows it to become a breeding ground for revisionists, fascists, and class enemies. This is where strasserism comes from and it will continue to get worse if these people are given more and more control over the ideology. When you are in charge of such organizations and find yourself purging so many members for this reason, it will give you more perspective on why previous communist leaders may have expelled so many people from their parties in the past.

If you choose to come over to revolutionary ideas, you need to abandon liberalism entirely and completely. Forget about bourgeois parties as well because they are a manipulation tactic and a way of controlling the masses without actually giving them agency over the system. The state department and the mainstream media should be treated almost like a foreign entity because at that point it is. You will end up needing to realize that everything you have ever been told about the world is entirely wrong. You will be viewed like an alien by society and maybe even shunned, but you will never be alone in struggling, because dialectical materialism is universal and socialism is inevitable. It is better to actually know something than to stay with a blank mind to fit into society.