Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot had a pretty big impact on my politics, at least indirectly.

Even though I was never religous I used to have this internalised belief (that I think is pretty common to liberals) that if you just hold on and suffer long enough things will eventually get better and you will be rewarded, which I was banking on eventually happening to me. It made me more aware of that belief, and that there wasn’t really any logical reason behind it, and that made me realise I’m waiting for something that will just never happen.

For there to be any justice in the world, people need to actively work to create and uphold it, and that doesn’t happen under capitalism.