You have to do actual praxis in an org. Dont care which you join, but you really need to be doing things irl. Just reading theory wont develop you politically or keep you engaged.

sounds like its parenti time

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Being a Marxist isn’t about belief, it’s about analysis. If you’re hoping to read something to gain some sense of certainty on the order of the world you’re looking in the wrong place. If you want to figure out how the world works, then you can, but it’s a process of discovery. Read capital. If you’ve been a Marxist for that long you can begin it, or just read more theory in general. Try to start forming your own analysis and ideas. Idk. I think we need everyone to be looking at the material conditions and trying to figure out what is to be done, not just reading old texts and repeating old strategies.

I found ‘Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture from the Ground Up’ by Carey Clouse really up lifting. It’s about the grassroots urban agriculture projects that were started by normal Cubans during the special economic period and then encouraged and formalised by the Cuban state. The book is very easy to read and also left me feeling very hopeful. Reading it was like realising that another world isn’t just possible, it’s already here - just localised and somewhere else. But the general lessons felt extremely prescient for the challenges that are going to face us because of climate change and definitely helped reinforce my bloomer side against my doomer one.

Idk if this helpful to say, but don’t feel like you have to be constantly ‘on’ politically. You mention in some of your posts in this thread that you do a lot of activism. Make sure that you take care of yourself and that you let yourself have a life outside of politics.

Despite being under siege from Western imperialism, 20th century socialist projects still generally achieved superior results in measures of physical quality of life compared to capitalist countries when adjusting for levels of economic development:

In 30 of 36 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes ( p < .05 by two-tailed t-test). This work with the World Bank’s raw data included cross-tabulations, analysis of variance, and regression techniques, which all confirmed the same conclusions. The data indicated that the socialist countries generally have achieved better PQL outcomes than the capitalist countries at equivalent levels of economic development.