9/11 really bums me out.
A horrible, but perfect, terrorist attack that launched two forever wars abroad, fueled horrific global violence, created the security state etc. Plus, the attack was allowed to happen by the state to allow them to gain all this power in the planned chaos.
It's like today is the anniversary of the beginning of this flailing spiral that is damaging everyone as it goes down.
PLUS, also it's the anniversary of Chile which is a reminder of how ruthless the powers that be can be to any socialist country.
Just a bad vibe day.
We should always take the opportunity to wave the bloody shirt. Whenever the social democrats open their mouths about "authoritarianism," or how states like the USSR or Cuba weren't "real" communism, we need to wave the bloody shirt. Allende is your guy. You couldn't ask for a more canonically social democratic path to power. Social democracy died three years later of a self inflicted gunshot wound in a presidential palace besieged by neoliberal goons.
This is what they will do to you if you don't stomp out reaction with extreme prejudice. This what they will do to you if you don't smash the state and bring the capitalist class to justice. We've seen where that road leads. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. No slave, serf, or peasant has ever voted their way to emancipation. Not once.