It sure isn't easy. I didn't really develop a coherent communist ideology until a few years ago but I always was sympathetic to radical left ideas and respect for revolutionary movements.
I did, however, witness my share of defeat and comrades being imprisoned and persecuted by the government while being involved in drug decriminalization and police abolition stuff only to see our crowning achievement (cannabis decriminalization) be wholly coopted and turned into another speculative investment for neoliberal technocrats.
It always blows me away when I realize that despite being well well over the average age of hexbear posters we also have some actual boomers here.
:fidel-salute-big: Much respect for staying the course through so much defeat.
Really, I’m grateful to all of those who “carried the torch”. I can’t imagine what it felt like being a socialist between 1989 and 2016.
It sure isn't easy. I didn't really develop a coherent communist ideology until a few years ago but I always was sympathetic to radical left ideas and respect for revolutionary movements.
I did, however, witness my share of defeat and comrades being imprisoned and persecuted by the government while being involved in drug decriminalization and police abolition stuff only to see our crowning achievement (cannabis decriminalization) be wholly coopted and turned into another speculative investment for neoliberal technocrats.