Modern Russia sucks. Capitalism has fucked us all. The USSR's existence was the only thing keeping capitalism in check for so long. It sent humanity to the stars and now capitalism is sending us into graves. Now we have no hope. China? IDFK... I don't trust that they'll fully give up capitalism any time soon.

I'm a shitty leftist, if I can complain I can organize, but sometimes it seems so hopeless now. The capitalist surveillance state crushes any threat before it gains power and eveyone is so warped by US propaganda. What hope do we have?

I just want hope for the future. But all I see is the death and destruction of something precious.

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  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    10 months ago

    The illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent collapse of the socialist bloc was one of the worst things to happen in these last few centuries, there's nothing left behind but a rotting corpse of what was once a beacon of hope for a better world. I try to stay positive when thinking about the future, but at the same time I know things most likely aren't going to improve in my lifetime and giving up solely because of that reason would be extremely selfish in my opinion. Keep building the path towards a better world so the people that come after you can enjoy that world. We will win eventually, it's inevitable.

    heart-sickle

    • Aquilae [he/him, they/them]
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      10 months ago

      We will win eventually, it's inevitable.

      This right here. Capitalism is unsustainable and Socialism is the only real path forward.

      Even if China remains market-socialist and never moves on to later stages, it will function as a pole in the emerging multi-polar world that subsequent communist revolutions can make use of. We might not be around to see or participate in them, but we can make them easier by organizing, whenever they do.

    • NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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      10 months ago

      I was just thinking about this and the incredible damage Red Scare propaganda has done to us all after trying to have a convo with "a progressive" who was very puzzled about why a fascict would get so many votes in a presidential election here. The discussion was a no go because we have no common understanding of what got us here.

      My country had close ties to the Soviet and is a place where all history has now been rewritten, it has kind of gone full circle and it is depressing to listen to all the misinformed or hollow analysis of current events that fully lack context of the one big lever that was there until the 90s. The lever has been demonized. I could not mention it in conversation without envoking lib anxiety.

      Looking at everything from the PoV of Soviet existing and then falling it all makes sense, but this is completely left out. Instead we get apathy because the lever that was there is fully discredited or tabooed from all conversation and analysis. The capitalist framing and terms used about the Soviet union are mainstream and they are truly all there is for average folks, I got hit with "finlandization" several times during the convo which is now taken as common knowledge. It is a right wing talking point that is now a fact. People use these terms to refer to the Soviet with zero understanding of where the terms are coming from and let that define their entire worldview. How can they not if that is all there is.

      You can't even mention the name of Lenin here without sounding somehow "extreme". It has happened fast too, in just a few decades. Not that the effort to achieve this wasn't always there, but they won. We have our populist politicians gaining traction to prove they did. And people feel helpless againts that as there is no historical understanding of why we got here.