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Past comrades have been through far, far, far fucking worse and eventually came out to win in many instances.
The road will be long, hard and difficult. But by absolutely no means is it over.
I get that millions of us have died, but nothing can be compared to the sheer scale of death that will unfold in the 21th century if we lose our fight. We’re talking actual billions dead, through war, disease, famine, droughts, catastrophes. Entire continents uninhabitable because of the heat. God I wish I had hope.
The first great war ushered in the conditions that created the first great socialist state of the USSR.
The second great war ushered in the second in China.
The third will kill us all or usher in another.
By no means do I play down how awful any of that is… But I think there is hope to hold in that.
This resembles a quote from Mao talking about WW3, and while I kind of agree with him, I kind of doubt he’d have guessed what would happen in the early 21th century.
We’re doomed. Capital will prevent the changes necessary to save a liveable planet, even if we can actually figure out what those changes are and how to implement them.
But it’s ok. You can still find things that make you happy before the oceans swallow us all
The first thing I do is stop reading a lot of the doomer nihilist shit infecting the left because so much of it isn’t based on any actual personal failure as much as never trying to do anything in the first place and trying to reinforce the calculus behind that decision. It’s just corporate news running through a human centipede designed to demoralize everyone involved, the simulacrum of the internet transforms that false narrative first into a fake lived experience which then gets internalized as objective truth.
The other is focusing on the immediate community around you because it’s the only political sphere any meaningful impact could be had even in a world where capitalism had already fallen and the climate is stable. Also because all the leftist theory in the world is useless if people make no effort to understand their own context.
The other is focusing on the immediate community around you because it’s the only political sphere any meaningful impact could be had even in a world where capitalism had already fallen and the climate is stable. Also because all the leftist theory in the world is useless if people make no effort to understand their own context.
You’ll be a lot better organizing and improving your community at the ground level than running for senate
Sheer rage and hatred for those who got us here.
What choice do we have? Give up?
The only time I feel the weight of existential dread lift from my shoulders is when I’m actually doing something. Whether that’s canvassing, phone banking, volunteering, protesting, or raising funds.
Arguing with my family about politics or online just makes me feel worse. Get out there and do some stuff in the real world. Even if the results are the same you can feel like you’ve fought the problem.
