I don’t take joy in all this bad shit is happening to the European American people. Just you know, minorities and other countries had the vampire boot on their necks this whole time, and now white people and other more privileged groups are feeling it too.
Seeking to kill yourself to keep yourself “pure”, is your brain on liberalism, not thinking dialectically and engaging in the purity fetish in the most toxic of manners.
I do think that to what extent it is possible to spread socialism to the Americans is a moral imperative to all American socialists. The left is not even that strong and the fascist party is going hog wild on trans people and immigrants, while the liberal party does nothing to stop them but focuses on trampling on unions and letting corporations consolidate power. As socialists we have to tell them that it does not have to be this shitty and let go of their nihilism.
We are competing with capitalism and we don’t have to succeed that much to improve material conditions for the people on the ground. In that sense the unhinged unregulated greed of the capitalist class and utter inhumanity of existing institutions helps anyone wanting to build an alternative.
Anarchists that aren’t addicted to posting sophist drivel can build their mutual aid networks and we can build ours more efficiently till the anarchists join us to do what they were already doing but more efficiently. Some fools may get emotionally wound up and destroy some windows or pig mobiles, which we don’t need to advocate or condone. Capitalists sow those kinds of weeds themselves.
I think that power comes from faith and labor. If most people have faith that putting their labor into one thing creates better outcomes than putting their labor into something else, they will choose the thing that gives them the better outcome for themselves. This applies to capitalism, slavery, bank robberies and all institutions that use power. Our enemies are punishing the people with horrible options, thus when the people understand their real position in society we don’t need to coerce most of the American people away from capitalism.
If you are worried that if socialists and/or marxists improving first world nations will lead to the worsening of the third world as some third worldists claim, I would not concern ourselves with that, because it is becoming obvious that the alternative to imperialism is working with China’s trade network. Let us only hope, for humanity’s sake, that China does not fall to liberalism.
There is like one line about how even rich people can’t escape it - as a person who’s known people from rich high schools, sure yeah it’s pretty funny that they’re doing fentanyl and crashing their cars lol, I saw it myself and had little sympathy tbqh. Hard drugs and even alcohol do not appeal to me
Is that what you’re referring to? Because the broader data is very depressing and I assumed you meant the broader point lf tbe article. this is a way bigger cancer on communities that suffer deprivation as a result of inequality where people have no prospects and have no hope for the world and have nothing to do
It’s an article about inequality killing children via despair instead of just middle aged white dudes with no college education in areas that had deindustrialization (because we’ve deindustrialized to the furthest extent we can the growth in precarious service work is huge, people would probably just rather die than be an adult working at jack in the box or a warehouse, at least that’s my read)
I think it is unbecoming of us communists to revel in any human suffering regardless of age or race. I’ll self crit to the extent that I do.
I think bunch of people that have no work to do and a bunch of work needed to be done for socialism is an opportunity for us.
We don’t have agency over the capitalist institutions, so their ineffectiveness is not our problem. Us communists’ problem is really our lack of power to build alternatives to the nonsense bullshit that these capitalists foist upon us.
I don’t take joy in all this bad shit is happening to the European American people. Just you know, minorities and other countries had the vampire boot on their necks this whole time, and now white people and other more privileged groups are feeling it too.
Seeking to kill yourself to keep yourself “pure”, is your brain on liberalism, not thinking dialectically and engaging in the purity fetish in the most toxic of manners.
I do think that to what extent it is possible to spread socialism to the Americans is a moral imperative to all American socialists. The left is not even that strong and the fascist party is going hog wild on trans people and immigrants, while the liberal party does nothing to stop them but focuses on trampling on unions and letting corporations consolidate power. As socialists we have to tell them that it does not have to be this shitty and let go of their nihilism.
We are competing with capitalism and we don’t have to succeed that much to improve material conditions for the people on the ground. In that sense the unhinged unregulated greed of the capitalist class and utter inhumanity of existing institutions helps anyone wanting to build an alternative.
Anarchists that aren’t addicted to posting sophist drivel can build their mutual aid networks and we can build ours more efficiently till the anarchists join us to do what they were already doing but more efficiently. Some fools may get emotionally wound up and destroy some windows or pig mobiles, which we don’t need to advocate or condone. Capitalists sow those kinds of weeds themselves.
I think that power comes from faith and labor. If most people have faith that putting their labor into one thing creates better outcomes than putting their labor into something else, they will choose the thing that gives them the better outcome for themselves. This applies to capitalism, slavery, bank robberies and all institutions that use power. Our enemies are punishing the people with horrible options, thus when the people understand their real position in society we don’t need to coerce most of the American people away from capitalism.
If you are worried that if socialists and/or marxists improving first world nations will lead to the worsening of the third world as some third worldists claim, I would not concern ourselves with that, because it is becoming obvious that the alternative to imperialism is working with China’s trade network. Let us only hope, for humanity’s sake, that China does not fall to liberalism.
There is like one line about how even rich people can’t escape it - as a person who’s known people from rich high schools, sure yeah it’s pretty funny that they’re doing fentanyl and crashing their cars lol, I saw it myself and had little sympathy tbqh. Hard drugs and even alcohol do not appeal to me
Is that what you’re referring to? Because the broader data is very depressing and I assumed you meant the broader point lf tbe article. this is a way bigger cancer on communities that suffer deprivation as a result of inequality where people have no prospects and have no hope for the world and have nothing to do
It’s an article about inequality killing children via despair instead of just middle aged white dudes with no college education in areas that had deindustrialization (because we’ve deindustrialized to the furthest extent we can the growth in precarious service work is huge, people would probably just rather die than be an adult working at jack in the box or a warehouse, at least that’s my read)
I guess we have two contradictions between us.
I think it is unbecoming of us communists to revel in any human suffering regardless of age or race. I’ll self crit to the extent that I do.
I think bunch of people that have no work to do and a bunch of work needed to be done for socialism is an opportunity for us.
We don’t have agency over the capitalist institutions, so their ineffectiveness is not our problem. Us communists’ problem is really our lack of power to build alternatives to the nonsense bullshit that these capitalists foist upon us.