Between pipelines getting jammed, the slow-motion general strike, protests everywhere all the time, Sheikh Jarrah, mass shootings every day, new covid strains in India, and just the general background noise of life getting worse and worse for almost everyone on the planet, it feels like someone tied a brick to the big “accelerate the contradictions” lever.
Anyone else felt this way lately?
WTF someone posted this already and my terminal online brain didn’t notice. Ignore my ass. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"–Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
24 News cycle means we hear about all the “nothing” happening prior to the “decades happening”. Build up to a metaphorical dam bursting.
I’ve noticed my life just keeps getting worse no matter what. My biggest fear is that it’s one of those situations where it needs to get worse before it gets better.
I’m in the same boat. But a lot of other people are too, which is kind of comforting.
There was a disaster every month last year, while covid raged the whole time. That used up all the remaining strength of the system, so now everything it was just barely holding back is seeping through. We need to start working hard now, because I believe this could be our big break. However, I have just barely read a little theory and have not really done any organizing, so feel free to ignore me.
No, you’re right. I don’t think this is the Revolution yet, but this is definitely the time to be organizing and educating. I’m right with you on trying to read more theory too; currently making my way through Mao’s Selected Works.
I think this could be it. We’ll never know until everything is over, but things look just about right right now.
I think things have been a bit less crazy than they were in 2020, but that might start to change.
Really? I feel like things are even weirder now than they were this time last year.
I really can’t tell if the empire is actually just so deep into collapse that all of the facades are falling away or if I’m just old enough and aware enough to see past them now
