I feel like anti-intelectualism has won. People can be given free audiobooks, the physical book, etc but they refuse to read because they view reading theory as bad or some bullshit. I have a friend and she thinks “its posh” to read theory. It seems like everyone has fallen for the propaganda that the only people who read theory are rich white college students. It fucking pisses me off.
“How do we get people to do their homework?” They don’t really think it’s posh and only for rich white college students, they just don’t feel like reading. It takes time, it’s work, and there’s better things to do.
I was calling myself a leftist a decade before I finally started reading theory; ultimately it was the pandemic that forced me to read because I was bored. I kept up the habit after that.
The only idea I have is to ground them until they do their homework. “No investigation, no right to speak” but applied socially.
I cannot enforce no right to speak
Yeah, you’d be risking all of your social connections if you tried it by yourself. “Don’t talk to me until you’ve read What Is To Be Done” would be a good way to not have friends. Only an organized effort would be able to socially enforce homework assignments.