I want to type out a meaningful reaction to your post but I can’t find the right words right now. I’m a bit brain dead from working today.

I’m sorry you feel that way comrade. Doomerism gets the better of us all from time to time. Especially with an ideology like this. Today might be your doomer day, tomorrow may not be your doomer day. Life feels rough when you are down.

Focus on what positive things you need and start small. Rest? Take some rest if possible. A book? Read a book. A clean room? Take some time to clean it, even if it is multiple days. There’s no rush. Want to do nothing? Do nothing. Life is overwhelming if you try to keep track of all the things that are happening and especially if you focus on the bad things. Breathe in. Breathe out. One day at a time.

And feel free to post whatever you want and message whoever you want.

On the climate stuff, understand that there is a new organized effort to push climate doomerism and hopelessness about climate change into the media all over the west to stop people from believing change I possible, denial stopped working so now they are making people miserable about it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-deniers-shift-tactics-to-inactivism/

In the same trench as you, homie. I’m not even gonna bullshit you-- my faith in the imperial core’s been dead since COVID first kicked off. If anything, I’m closer to nihilism right now than any other low point of my life. I don’t believe in the crackers my living situation is surrounded by; one of them called the cops on me for going for a walk in a neighborhood I lived in for a decade just a couple months ago. We’re fucked; there’s a chance the Actually Existing Socialist states won’t be near as badly, though. They’ll make it through, at least.

That’s what I keep telling myself, at least.

I hope you feel better after your sleep, comrade. I’m sorry you’re feeling so down and that I can’t sit with you in person. From what you’ve shown of yourself on here, I’d happily do that if I could.

I’m glad you’ve used your spoons to connect with us. I want to say as well that as hard as it can be (due to social pressures), it’s okay to save some spoons for yourself. It’s okay to make yourself a priority and rest, eat as well as you can, and sleep for as long as you need to every day.

Your summary of last year’s shitshow is useful, but it might be worth ignoring the news for a while. I get depressed reading about climate change, too. I can do it for a month but then I need a month off – you still know it’s happening, but not hearing the details helps.

I’m not sure if we are fucked, even those in the global south. If industry continues as it has been going, sure. I mean, things aren’t looking too rosy. But things are changing. The west won’t go easily but it will have to face the reality of multipolarity and climate change within the next two decades, maybe even within this one.

In the global north, people will begin to organise more and more. We’re already seeing it. The global south is organising, too. The Black Star Line (an early BRI but for Africa and the African diaspora) was never allowed to take off, but the BRI will achieve a similar goal.

Once the global south is empowered through the BRI, the West will lose access to ‘cheap’ resources – the source of its power and the fuel for its militaries (the oppressed pay a heavy price, so those resources are only cheap for some). This could happen in time for the global south to save itself from total climate catastrophe. I hope it does.

Being in the global north at this time and knowing revolutionary ideas is crucial. It is we who will need to build communities of care; the right won’t do it. Our voices will be needed to explain that a free global south does not have to mean that living standards plummet in the global north; if the global north can move towards socialism. A bourgeois north will pit itself against a free south, but a socialist global order can work together to build a new prosperous world with a habitable environment. In the meantime, we need to look after ourselves and then build relationships, the kind of relationships that help us look after each other and ourselves.

That new order becomes possible once the south liberates itself. It makes me sad to know how much more the south must struggle for that liberation, as it has struggled, suffered, and won before, but I can be happy knowing what freedom will mean for billions of people.

If we look around, it does seem like things have never been worse. But what’s the difference between the threat of climate change and being poor in Europe or indigenous to the Americas, Africa, Asia, or Oceania from the fifteenth century onwards. Life is threatened by capital one way or another. I know the scale of climate change makes it feel different. In a sense it is. But we’re not the first to face this danger, we’re just the first to face it as a planet. But that also means we can fight it as a planet – never before have we had such a unifying motivation to make internationalism work.

We must have the same hope as those who struggled for freedom and independence since the Europeans turned up. Those revolutionaries are our example: we can improve the world, no matter how stormy the weather. We can follow in their great footsteps.

I feel like you comrade, trapped 24/7 in a society, in a life and in an historic period I didn’t choose. Maybe it’s a mantra i instilled in myself in order to not “off” myself but I often think, when I see theese news, that revolutions happened in the most desperate of situations, but unfortunately this thought brings less hope everyday.

Steeling this from a reddit comment because it helped me get through my slump a few months ago, it’s not a perfect response but I appreciated it.

“The fact that the worst can’t keep people down for long. Covid is the worst public health crisis in a century. And yeah it’s bad, but it hasn’t come close to collapsing society or anything like that. Even worse catastrophes have been endured. How many countries were bombed to ashes in the mid twentieth century and rebounded in only a few decades? In only 4 years Hitler went from the verge of total victory and a thousand year Reich in Europe to hiding from the Red Army in a bunker freaking out on amphetamines and blowing his brains out. Climate change will fuck us, the rise of a reinvigorated right will fuck us, the unravelling of late capitalism will fuck us, but we’ve been fucked before and we’re still here. And historically, great catastrophe has been followed by great positive change. The black death lead to the Renaissance, the slaughter of WWI gave us the first successful communist revolution. We’ll win because the people’s strength is resillient and will survive bad times, but the strength of capital is brittle and will not.”

Also I want to note that there is incredible socialist and anti-capitalist shift happening in South America, Columbia elected a leftist leader for the first time ever, Lula is president in Brazil, leftists beat the coup in Bolivia, Cuba (not SA ik but) passed the most progressive and accepting family laws in the world, Argentina has a decent left leaning leader. There is talk of creating a south American currency and creating a new trading block disconnected from the US and European economies. BRI is increasing in South America and China and Brazil are working on further collaboration.

Around the world the hegemonic power of the US dollar is dying, countries are standing up to the US, joining with China in economic opposition to neoliberalism.

If you really want a dose of optimism and feel good stuff, read about all the good shit Lula is already doing in Brazil, especially around indigenous peoples.

Shalom my Comrade .
I wish you the best in life , don’t worry everything will be fine .

Here have some چاي ( tea ) to make you feel better ☺️❤️ :

I typed out a long comment but it was too depressing to post upon review so let me say this instead:

One thing that has heartened me is that last year was an amazing year for unionization in the US. Despite the nonstop barrage of bourgeois propaganda, millions of workers have organized their workplaces and millions more are fighting for it. Even though we’ve been ideologically stunted after a century of anticommunism, we’re still able to struggle along class lines based solely on the deprivation we’re subjected to by the state. Americans may be 99% liberals but they’re not dumb enough to take this extreme exploitation lying down and there’s serious revolutionary potential in that. I have hope, there is a future from here.

I don’t have much else to say than what others are already saying. But I do strongly believe that you can’t give up. Half of losing is giving up. And if you refuse to become nihilistic or surrender, then half the battle is already won.

I’m gonna be straight with you, most likely things are gonna keep going downhill. That’s the way things go. Revolution isn’t fought by happy people, sad people, or angry people, its fought by those who no longer have a choice. Its fought by those who decided that death is a preferable alternative to letting everything be destroyed.

Even so, revolution will most likely fail even if it does come. That’s the world we live in. The most you can do is accept your individual powerlessness (you can only control whatever is in a 3 meter radius of you at any given time) and get organized to try and do something as all we have is an opportunity to roll the dice and when the alternative is watching the planet burn and everyone die then it can’t hurt to gamble.

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I have been living for a while with the knowledge I may be around just long enough to witness the last generation of humans. That I may not live to a “ripe old age” due to the direction the world is going. But I keep going regardless. Because the only thing we DO know is we don’t know the future. We can’t predict everything that’s going to happen. We can maybe predict what some will do. Even what most might do. But not everything. Maybe Earth gets blasted by a big space rock tomorrow. Maybe one just the right size takes out the Pentagon. Maybe something else random good or bad happens. We don’t know. So until we do I just go to work, make money, shit lost on here and enjoy what little bit of life I can. Save what I can in case I am able to make it. Enjoy what I can in case I don’t. There’s a really good story I love when I think about things being bad or good. It goes heavily into a Taoist perspective. It’s called the story of the Chinese farmer. It can be told in less than 2 minutes and it’s one of the most foundational stories of my life.

https://youtu.be/CzxprrfoEMM

Look on the bright side: even if the country goes even more to shit without a revolution, that’s going to drive a bunch of hoity toity labor aritocrackers and petty bourgeoisie into poverty. If the revolution fails, I can still die happy knowing all those white burgers and Euros who are so full of themselves will eat shit and die.

Thank you for collecting these articles.

If everyone thinks and acts like we are fucked - we are. Try to do something with and for other people, like food, not bombs or local nature clean ups or whatever, even with libs