Okay but engaging in socialist practice mostly looks like reading, writing, thinking a lot, listening, and talking to people. The standards of productive labor under capitalism are unnatural, but we internalize them as a measure of ourselves. Granted, being a socialist begins with an uneasy feeling that basically never goes away, but comradeship is actually really great and worth the headaches. But before I started experiencing some of the good things from engaging in struggle I had to, or like try to, abandon a lot of these capitalist conceptions of value, which alienates us from our own humanity.

We need more people engaging with socialism and politics, not chiding others about their crypto liberalism, not beating oneself up about not doing enough (but do more please.) Thinking, developing our self and our ability to reason, learning about socialism is engaging in socialist activity. Its not enough like forever, and eventually in order to keep growing you have to apply those developments to try and make changes for the benefit of workers and everybody else, but if you’re at the point where you’re just realizing you still have some liberal tendencies even though you trash libs all day on social media, then you’re probably okay to just study and just finding some socialists to have regular discussions with.