I try to channel it back into revolutionary optimism — it's incredible that the USSR existed, and even more incredible that it accomplished so much in its time despite all of the resources that the global capital poured into defeating it.

If the USSR can go from an agrarian society of illiterate peasants to winning the space race in the span of a generation, despite being constantly dogged by reactionaries and capitalists, massive famine, and bearing the brunt of WWII, surely nothing is impossible.