the ideal would be to network with other leftists in your area and start to offer an alternative. Of course that takes time and a lot of effort some people might not even be able to do (because say bad mental health) and depending on the area might even be dangerous.
protesting against the war almost feels counterproductive since it just makes us look like a bunch of quacks
Antivaxxers have been spreading their views on the world for 20 years aided by a distrust in medicine paired with the for-profit nature of the healthcare system, so they gathered a fairly large crowd of anti-intellectual minded people. They were seen as cranks and still rightfully are, but when the Covid pandemic and vaccination campaign hit, they suddenly had thousands of people on the streets across Europe and were successful in sabotaging the campaign and encouraged politicians to make Covid restrictions a shadow of themselves.
Did that have a negative effect on the world? Yes, of course, but they were able to effectively educate, agitate and organize like we strive to do, even if they're out enemy or at least our enemy's friends.
Unfortunately the ghost of the Soviet Union still haunts us as well as the numerous defeats of the last 30 years and we have both lost the will and the credibility that we can make things better.
Who knows, maybe it'll take 20 more years for us or more (or less), but even in times of retreat and defeat the seeds of the success of tomorrow can be laid.
You are not wrong, but you are also making excuses for inaction. If things are so bleak, then what is to be done?
Nothing?
Just hoping that China, Climate Change, an even bigger economic crisis or whatever elseccomes and creates the conditions for revolution? What if that never comes? Is it back to doing nothing, because we're doomed?
Or is leftism just consisting of posting in Hexbear dot net and complaining that westerners don't want what we want?
the ideal would be to network with other leftists in your area and start to offer an alternative. Of course that takes time and a lot of effort some people might not even be able to do (because say bad mental health) and depending on the area might even be dangerous.
Antivaxxers have been spreading their views on the world for 20 years aided by a distrust in medicine paired with the for-profit nature of the healthcare system, so they gathered a fairly large crowd of anti-intellectual minded people. They were seen as cranks and still rightfully are, but when the Covid pandemic and vaccination campaign hit, they suddenly had thousands of people on the streets across Europe and were successful in sabotaging the campaign and encouraged politicians to make Covid restrictions a shadow of themselves.
Did that have a negative effect on the world? Yes, of course, but they were able to effectively educate, agitate and organize like we strive to do, even if they're out enemy or at least our enemy's friends.
Unfortunately the ghost of the Soviet Union still haunts us as well as the numerous defeats of the last 30 years and we have both lost the will and the credibility that we can make things better.
Who knows, maybe it'll take 20 more years for us or more (or less), but even in times of retreat and defeat the seeds of the success of tomorrow can be laid.
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You are not wrong, but you are also making excuses for inaction. If things are so bleak, then what is to be done?
Nothing?
Just hoping that China, Climate Change, an even bigger economic crisis or whatever elseccomes and creates the conditions for revolution? What if that never comes? Is it back to doing nothing, because we're doomed?
Or is leftism just consisting of posting in Hexbear dot net and complaining that westerners don't want what we want?
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