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Moralism is liberalism. Material conditions create people not the other way around (although people are a part of material conditions). Stop wondering if people are "good" or "bad" and think about if they will rise up in opposition to you, if they will help you, or if they will passively accept what comes. The vast majority of people will fall in the last category. Only hate your opposition because they oppose you, not because of what they are. Change the material conditions and you will change the people.
Misanthropy, anti-natalism, nihilism, etc. are all metaphysical bullshit. Purge yourself of it and you will be a better communist.
The only one I'll let judge us is the savior and patron saint of humanity: Lucifer the chain-breaker
That interpretation comes from paradise lost where it is being used as a metaphor for the English civil war.
You don't agree with Lucifer you agree with Oliver Cromwell.
Lucifer's rebellion if you are interested was about his pride being hurt by the notion a race he considers inferior should be worthy of love
Just think of everyone as big gullible babies & give them the same treatment you would a 7 year old child wearing a Blue Lives Matter shirt - you sort of give the kid a pass on account of they're a fucking pig brained child, or like accept that his parents must suck. Same applies, people's parents suck and their whole culture sucks and has corrupted them. Do they have some agency? Sure. But for the most part they're a product of their environ & the fucked up system they were born in has shaped those big 7 year old babies into reactionary goons. If they were born in the Star Trek universe they'd probably be pretty good people, actually.
Idk, that's what I do. I'm surrounded by them but they're truly nice people and I think they're just shaped in a really really terrible way by society @ large. The information available to them is polluted garbage so no wonder it taints the output (them)
You don't need a positive outlook on humanity to advance socialist causes. A large part of it is having a rational economy and lessening/removing the harm capitalism causes. People don't need to be good for it to be better to have these things.
No, communism doesn't mean you have to like everyone, its an economic system. It doesn't mean you need to be friends with everyone, just that they are supported and have their needs met. Realistically, only a few percent of the population is irredeemable, the rest are just followers that see shitty views as the way of getting by these days.
People are victims of a system that prays on their fears and anxieties and convinces them that their neighbour is their enemy. Most people are just trying to do their best with what information they have. It's not their fault they have been lied to from birth. Socialist policies always poll well in the abstract. People want to be good and try to be, they just don't know what doing good actually looks like.
Re-education. On those whom it does not work, the irredeemable: they will give their labor for the benefit of the people they lived their lives oppressing. Once a couple of generations have been raised with decent values, the whole world will change, permanently. We only need to do this once and it's done forever. Then it'll be 70-90% the other way around.
You need to read some utopian fiction. It's a useful guide for how things can turn out.
I don't think communist beliefs necessarily demand an optimistic view of humanity. I went through a lot of physical and psychological abuse when I was young, so you can imagine my thoughts on most humans — and humanity as a whole — are not precisely positive, but I haven't rejected communism. We believe in communism and want to advance socialism not necessarily because we believe in humanity, but because we know that no matter what, communism is the right thing to do: right for humans, right for animals, and right for the planet. Capitalism will just bring absolute destruction and desolation.
"High hopes, low expectations": this attitude towards life has helped me a lot; I think it's a realistic, but not defeatist approach at life. I don't expect humans to suddenly be good (in fact I don't trust most of them, and I doesn't help that abuse crippled my ability to bond with most people), but I continue to fight for what I think is best for humanity and the world. Maybe I also just secretly hope someone doesn't have to go through what I went through. People deserve a better world, and I hope if they don't get that better world, at least won't be because I didn't do anything.
Opinion polls consistently how that a majority of humans and a majority of Americans agree with a broad left-wing agenda.
Problem is that the culture in white imperialist countries is so rotten it's basically unfixable without reeducating tens of millions of people.
