Thesis: Nuking your reddit account is good for your mental health
Antithesis: If everyone nuked their reddit accounts, a lot of invaluable information (especially in niche communities) would be lost, and this would primarily hurt average people and not reddit as a corporation
Synthesis: Nuking all reddit accounts is good for society’s health. Reddit is a trash website. In the short-term it will hurt, but long-term we are better off moving these communities to decentralized platforms. There are ways to archive the important information from reddit. Reddit thrives off the free contributions of countless users who are paid nothing, and reddit claims ownership and monetizes all content freely published to it. If you don’t like reddit, simply stop posting to it, no matter how juicy the bait
Elites, Masses, and Rebels reads to me as a Leninist position against the spontaneity of revolution. The takeaway is emphatically not that education is unnecessary, but the opposite: the spontaneous understanding by proletarians of their own exploitation has limits and is easily co-opted by counter-revolutionary forces. A vanguard is essential in these conditions to counter the organized propaganda of the bourgeois.
This is a re-hashing of the section on spontaneity in What Is To Be Done