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It’s also important to remember there’s literally no historical precedence for the circumstances we find ourselves in. Sure some patterns repeat themselves but if you’re looking to apply a revolutionary template from history to the current moment you’re not gonna find it.

Personally I’m of the opinion the only way out is through. There’s simply too much social and institutional inertia hurtling towards fascism for anything else to be the case. Three main conditions need to be met for a socialist project to get off the ground, and that’s

-a population of discontented people frustrated with their lot in life who do not own capital

-a vanguard party of committed ideologues who promise that populace a better vision of the future than what is currently on the table for them

-the capacity of that party to defend it’s projects locally and at scale from capitalist/fascist intervention

We’ve definitely got condition number one but the other two have yet to reveal themselves.

I think if you’re looking for a way through, IMO it really does boil down to getting to know your neighbours and building dual power. The more community you can engender in your immediate vicinity the better off you’ll be when the ratchet clamps down.

Eventually this shithole will balkanize and at that point it’s the new world struggling to be born. Everything will be up for grabs and whoever is better organized up to that point will have the advantage.

Always very funny watching the news frame these diplomacy plays as “Trump placing a tariff on x country” when it’s the Americans who the tariff is actually placed on lmao

I hate the realpolitik of this perspective but BF from what I know is still pretty socially conservative. There was a study done a while ago there saying something like only 8% of people would “accept a homosexual as a neighbour”. Regardless of what Traore thinks it may just not be politically feasible for him to retain support from broad swathes of his coalition if he comes out swinging for LGBT rights in BF, and if his mandate collapses or his allies turn against him shit could get bad for him pretty fast.

I know the meme is that fusion is always 20 years away, but with recent developments and China’s private companies achieving 2/3 critical conditions for extended fusion it really does feel like we’re less than 2 decades out from commercial fusion. Will be world changing, for better or for worse, and I’m excited that we’ll be around to see what it does.

I am not saying I disagree with you, I’m just saying that the origins of Marxism is in an age of Western philosophy where “nature” was very much regarded as separate and indeed subservient to humanity, and that the ‘traditional Marxist lens’ on climate change would be “this should be fixed because it will negatively affect the development of socialism”. I think that with the knowledge and advancements we’ve made since the 1800’s we obviously need a different philosophical approach to the situation.

I understand where you’re coming from but I think the answer is that a capital M ‘Marxist understanding of climate change’ would be centred in ‘climate change as an issue that affects the human ability to maintain organised civilisation’ rather than the perspective that the planet and it’s ecosystems are worth maintaining for their own sake.

RIP zei squirrel, you were the only good twitter account