I keep wanting to form some kind of housing cooperative for people seeking refuge from abusive situations, seeing as how there's currently fuck-all meaningful resources for adult survivors of childhood abuse. I know that despite this being completely nonviolent, legal, voluntary, and well-intentioned operation, that most people won't care or will actively support when some extremists decide to infiltrate and sabotage that effort. Manufactured consent and all. Why does nobody else do things like this? What has prevented the vast majority of other American leftists from simply crowdfunding their own communes, leaving the larger economy, and building their own means of production so that they aren't dependent on the rest of the world for permission to build systems of mutual aid?
We can work towards revolutionary change, but the fact is your entire life will go by and you will never see a real revolution. Waiting for revolution is the leftist equivalent of waiting for the day Jesus returns to earth.
No offense but I really hate that comparison. The 20th century isn't that long ago and a lot of those revolutionaries and attempted revolutionaries wrote a lot about their experiences. There's very little "we got Jesus to come back and here's the lessons we learned" writing from the last 150 years.
"There are symbolic elements, which have become ingrained in Western Marxism, that were smuggled in as contraband from Christianity."
This article was difficult for me to read when I came across it, and gave me a lot of grappling to do.