Counterpoint - there are no communists alive, for they have died in the past actually fighting for the cause. All you have right now are online larpers (me included), real life groups grifting (i.e. trots whose whole existence is to sell stuff and get their money up) or book clubs pretending to be revolutionary. There’s no real working class movement, the class is still reeling from defeat a century ago, ML necrophilia and red scares.
Barely anyone uses the word to refer to it’s original meaning now, even when it comes to real life. Vast majority of what people would call “larp” isn’t even deliberate roleplaying but rather delusions of grandeur or shit nobody cares about
Counterpoint - there are no communists alive, for they have died in the past actually fighting for the cause. All you have right now are online larpers (me included), real life groups grifting (i.e. trots whose whole existence is to sell stuff and get their money up) or book clubs pretending to be revolutionary. There’s no real working class movement, the class is still reeling from defeat a century ago, ML necrophilia and red scares.
larp means live action role play. the opposite of online.
Barely anyone uses the word to refer to it’s original meaning now, even when it comes to real life. Vast majority of what people would call “larp” isn’t even deliberate roleplaying but rather delusions of grandeur or shit nobody cares about
Hey, I’m not a grifter. I don’t benefit.
I’m not a book club. Don’t have friends, haven’t read books.
And I’m not a larper because the internet isn’t real life and I don’t do anything else.