• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    it’s not about proving yourself to me or anyone, i’m just trying to understand.

    you are not forced to take on arms and murder people and work 24-7 for abolishing capital. most people can’t, which is why you or most anyone else won’t break into peter thiel’s house to kill him unless very specific conditions are met. the sentiment is clearly there though.

    turns out real socialism works very differently than that, much more like helping your fellows and building community.

    and yes, i know exactly how it feels not to even be able to find work for who i am. but our only real obligation is to persist.

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        your story is strange, but it sounds like you need to find your place in the world before finding your way through trying to change it. which is ok, i need to find a bunch of stuff for myself too. all humans are fallible and political leaning is just a piece of the puzzle when it comes to that.

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            then what is the problem? why resignate yourself to a life of suffering and the possible extiction of the human race, when so many people are still out there trying to make things less bad?

            i actually want to hear about half the shit you’ve done.

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                Shit isn’t going to change unless there is an armed conflict.

                it’s literally happening right now in many places, no weapons required. socialism focuses on unionism for a reason: capital loses all of it’s power when it stops flowing and it’s all that’s needed for now, really. the hard part is actually awakening class consciousness through the propaganda.

                I don’t see any leftists in the imperial core ever doing that

                imperial core leftists are often not real leftists, they are just attracted by the aesthetics of it. many of them did a seemingly great job at fighting back ICE and some of the bullshit so far in the us, though.

                every leftist space is basically filled with cops or spooks

                also true, also hasn’t stopped it. every serious organization takes it into account.

                it’s only hopeless while you think it is.

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                    of course europeans don’t care. capitalism is what affords you what you have at the expense of others, but even that’s also on shaky grounds atm. as for me my country is as bare-minimum “comfortable” as it is because of that fight, we don’t have much of a choice if we don’t want to get crushed. it’s not really about ideas.

                    resignation will at best accelerate things and make them worse. i don’t know how old you particularly are but we have a long life ahead of us and this is the best investment that can be done. every resignation could be turned into change today, it has been historically possible.