I hate the United States. Simple as.

The weirdest struggle for me comes in the form of a thick line between the masses’ reality and my personal experience. I am currently pretty removed from the more severe aspects of capitalism failing (working as intended) but I also have the knowledge that the majority of people in this country (and the world, really) are just barely getting by. This causes some fear to strike in my brain.

The fear comes from:

a.) The possibility of having invested so much time studying politics and Marxism-Leninism just for it to be wrong, capitalism really does work and this was for nothing. Things aren’t really that bad, and (to paraphrase from DankZedong’s post similar to this one a few days ago) we Marxists are just missing the point. Conclusion: I am the insane one.

or

b.) The possibility of us being entirely correct and everyone else around me having bought into the game, this weird cult of capital. Conclusion: The society/system is insane.

Which is it? Are we really just batshit crazy? Or are we the few who have the time/capabilities/desire to understand Marxism and dialectical materialism? Why are we such a minority if what we fight for is directly in the interest of the majority?

I’m scared, send help and hugs

  • Kaffe
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    142 years ago

    I’m going to tell you my plan. Study as much as possible, without burning myself out. Lenin in What is to be Done? points out that a party structure is beneficial because people can commit to the organization at their personal ability of engagement, and those who want to work harder can be supported by the party, it’s important that we can build a structure so that potential revolutionaries don’t get trapped into wage slavery or worse. We have no such party in America, so right now we need to educate ourselves and then break out and educate others. We need to propagandize on the proletariat’s natural responses to the crises of Capitalism. We need to correct half baked Liberal criticisms of the crises. We need to talk to our families, friends, and coworkers of our analyses of such crises. Some of us will be focused on structural party building, some of us will be focused on education, some of us will be focused on unionism, revolutionary art, journalism, feeding communities and party meetings, organizing study sessions, and everything that a movement needs. We really need to push Scientific Socialism and get people to understand what it means to engage themselves in the motion of society, and how much power they have to change its direction.

    MLs are not the minority, just in the stomach of the Kraken are we depressed. There are hundreds of millions of us in the world, and billions of us waiting to be awoken. Those of us swallowed by the Kraken are not yet dead, and we who are inside can do the most damage.