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alternative to what? circulating shitty manifestos? the best alternative is not doing that at all. pamplets and libels don't create durable mass movements that make positive impacts. they create enraged torch-wielding mobs.
how to do persuasion at scale? you don't. persuasion isn't something that scales, as far as I can tell. real change is slow, inter-generational, and requires immense discipline and human-heartedness to do well.
I mean – if you were in Karl Marx's shoes in 1848, and you felt that capitalism was toxic and needed to be critiqued, and that everyone should know about it, how would you go about doing it? (I don't have a good answer, just curious for alternate takes)
I don't know what I would do. I think the history of Charles Darwin working on his manuscript for Origin of Species is a fascinating counter-example though. Also a revolutionary text but Darwin was painstakingly cautious.
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