Marx definitely helped me see my depression as a result of my material conditions and not a purely mental one which helped.
Me too. I'm not a sad person in general. I am in misery about the state of things and what is to come if things aren't changed. Like how can you not feel bad when you find out that there is no future for the youth and also their leading cause of death is getting shot.
Keeps the rage fire burning, at least. Marxian analysis taught me who to blame.
This was huge for me, but I also had to be careful not to become even more despairing upon realizing just how actually fucked our society is and the fact that so many people are unwilling to understand it or in denial about it, it's easy to feel helpless. Once I found a way to take responsibility for the things I can control in my life, while also going easier on myself because so many things are clearly out of my control (Marxism helped immensely in understanding this), I felt that I finally found a balance and don't need to be ashamed or depressed the way that I was for years.
It certainly made me a hell of a lot less angry at normal people now that I understand the underlying systems are causing their terrible behavior.
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Powering mysef through my depressive episodes with the power of the Marx-Camus dialectic
Or furries. I knew 3 different people from a very old gaming server who joined the furry community and now they're pretty happy. I think finding a community in general is key for many people
He once said something to the effect of, "Obviously Communism has totally failed, obviously, but when you actually describe out loud what we need to do to fix the world, it begins to sound exactly like war-time Communism."
I think that kind of sums up his whole worldview. He was completely at a loss of what could possibly upheave the status quo, what organization or class or group in any sense ... and Matt Christman of all people suggest a military coup could do something, a moment of mid-level officers "taking the keys away" from Congress. Zizek's mind was blown, right there on a Chapo episode, because he had never considered this as a possibility, and it seemed to leave him overjoyed that there was even one possible challenger to politics as usual.
Take all that as you will.
to write nothing of coherence for thirty years while becoming increasingly out of touch and bigoted
Spent a lot of time with Camus to deal with existential dread and stuff. But ended up at marx
