At the very least, stay hopeful out of spite. Our masters want us to feel hopeless. They want to crush any idea that what we want is any more than an ideal. Don't let them have that. Commies in the past have dealt with worse, we owe it to them to keep going.
Yes, they have all the power of the worlds resources at their fingertips.
Yet communism still exists. It will always exist. It keeps coming back again and again until it defeats capitalism or capitalism eats itself to death. Capitalism is powerful but inefficient and sloppy.
Because at the end of the day, capitalism is an irrational, unethical, destructive and inhuman system that by its very nature cannot survive forever. People like Elon Musk have more money and power than the Earth has ever seen before, yet he can't commission a shuttle that doesn't leak piss. Meanwhile, communists were the first people to get a man into space! With 1961 technology!
So yeah, capitalists are powerful but not infallible. Hell, if we're lucky they'll take themselves out with a self-driving car or something lmao.
Shit does look bleak tho and it's perfectly valid to feel the way you do. I just wanted to see if I could help by sharing what keeps me going. I really do hope things get better so we can be optimistic about the world again. Maybe someday :meow-hug:
It's one of my favorite quotes from Disco Elysium, on the pretty similar topic of "If no one can agree what real communism even means, and the rest of the world keeps killing us for our beliefs, what's the point?"
Steban, the Student Communist - "Oh! And, gendarme. One last thing. About that question you asked earlier. It reminded me of a certain poem that you might appreciate. It was written by a young communard who was killed on the barricades during the Coalition landings. The story goes that he wrote it on the last night of his life, keeping watch from the barricades in the middle of the night. I don't have the whole thing committed to memory, but there's a line in it I think about sometimes."
Harry - "What's the line?"
Steban, the Student Communist - "'In dark times, should the stars also go out?' Anyway, goodnight to you."
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At the very least, stay hopeful out of spite. Our masters want us to feel hopeless. They want to crush any idea that what we want is any more than an ideal. Don't let them have that. Commies in the past have dealt with worse, we owe it to them to keep going.
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Yes, they have all the power of the worlds resources at their fingertips.
Yet communism still exists. It will always exist. It keeps coming back again and again until it defeats capitalism or capitalism eats itself to death. Capitalism is powerful but inefficient and sloppy.
Because at the end of the day, capitalism is an irrational, unethical, destructive and inhuman system that by its very nature cannot survive forever. People like Elon Musk have more money and power than the Earth has ever seen before, yet he can't commission a shuttle that doesn't leak piss. Meanwhile, communists were the first people to get a man into space! With 1961 technology!
So yeah, capitalists are powerful but not infallible. Hell, if we're lucky they'll take themselves out with a self-driving car or something lmao.
Shit does look bleak tho and it's perfectly valid to feel the way you do. I just wanted to see if I could help by sharing what keeps me going. I really do hope things get better so we can be optimistic about the world again. Maybe someday :meow-hug:
"In dark times, should the stars also go out?"
wow I love that
It's one of my favorite quotes from Disco Elysium, on the pretty similar topic of "If no one can agree what real communism even means, and the rest of the world keeps killing us for our beliefs, what's the point?"
What does that make us?
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