The Ws in other parts of the world are our Ws as well, and there are many. Things may get ugly here but some things will get much easier as the rest of the world slowly turns red. It will be easier to radicalize as the international success of socialism becomes harder and harder to ignore, just as the abyssal cesspit of capitalism’s failures start stinging people harder and harder in the imperial core; for us, things will have to continue to get worse for them to get better.

In the meantime, maybe I’m pulling this out of my ass, maybe this is just my own bias as I myself only recently became an ML (about 9-10 months ago) but it certainly feels like MLism is starting to take root thanks to the efforts of socialists over the past decades, socialists in recent times and lots of external variables. It seems much more visible now than ever before in modern American history, I can say that for sure. Hence a very strong “anti tankie” backlash, and all the libs bemoaning that “everyone is a tankie now” and “taking over everything.” This is a whiny exaggeration but the fact of the matter is is that MLism is growing in the Anglosphere and it’s only going to continue growing as the conditions that birthed it continue to sharpen.

Things like climate change, intelligence services, the war machine, fascism, corporate power etc. may seem omnipotent but it is smoke and mirrors. These entities are paper tigers and they will crumple one by one in the next half century. Don’t get me wrong, it won’t all be sunshine and butterflies, there will be massive challenges and setbacks and individuals such as you or me or XYZ may end up unlucky and suffer a horrible fate in the last act of the global class war. But things are not so surely grim as we are made to believe.

A thing to always keep in mind is that algorithms are going to direct you towards negativity, whether it’s a conspiracy and the CIA is trying to get would-be revolutionaries to be anti-AES or to kill themselves or otherwise be made inert by depression/vices/etc., or whether it’s just the good ol’ algorithms chasing what gets clicks and ad revenue, and negativity in the Western Left is simply a temporarily profitable market, either way, it is being shoved onto us and is in no way as rational as such terminal cynicism likes posture.

Lastly, also keep in mind to take care of yourself in all the usual ways. You won’t believe how different my outlook on life is on a day when I slept poorly, wasted productivity hours, couldn’t relax for leisure hours, ate poor quality food, was sedentary and didn’t socialize versus a day where I slept great, was productive and thus enjoyed relax mode, ate healthy, was active and was social (and of course all these things go hand in hand in many ways).

Have hope comrade! The future is brighter than we have been conditioned to believe!