cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5342816
Do you think that you can help bring about the revolution or do you just want a minor less risky role? What kind of role can you participate on and die with a smile in your death bed when you think about how you lived your life?
I'm a software engineer so naturally I think it'd be fucking awesome to work on something like Project Cybersyn.
I will be the best damn fry cook a revolutionary movement has ever seen.
I want to write ecological theory tackling the separation of town and country/metabolic rift in the context of left urbanism. Right now I'm still building that observational understanding of the issues, but I'm keen to make a concrete plan for what a radical green city means and how that's integrated into wider rural/natural systems. Beyond that, I just want to homestead and give the surplus to an ML org doing mutual aid.
I can see why you call yourself "badger" hahaha
Very interesting, comrade, and very pure-hearted.
If I can move the theoretical understanding of a heap of people, that would be nice. I don't think we're at the active revolution stage yet.
I have the privilege of working with marginalized folks so I am trying to slide material class conscious seeds into the communication I have with them as much as I can without losing my position. I have sadly noticed that for example poor folk have often fully internalized the all consuming neoliberal self-loathing and individualization that we live in and truly think it is them who are the problem. I want to at least raise class consciousness, to contribute to deprogramming people around me and if nothing else, make someone see the systemic issue rather than blaming themselves or othe proles. I have no idea if this matters or not, but I have hope it does.
I have a kid who honestly has a fairly low chance of "making it" with adhd in this shitty system. I also consider climate change to be a non-debatable justification for getting rid of capitalism so I think I would be willing to go all the way to whatever the situation demands of me, because I can't think of anything better to spend or lose my life on than making this change happen.
I know I really struggle to exist with awareness of all the unnecessary war, violence and plunder that we seemingly can't do anything about. I would rather do somerhing than not. I don't consider my individual life that important that I couldn't trade it for a better timeline for future generations.
I think with sufficient investigation and theory-studying, I could come up with a decent Marxist analysis of White Evangelical Christianity in the US. I think I’ve identified the principal contradiction in it. I think I’m seeing how it can barely be considered a “religion” and instead it exists to reinforce settler colonialism, white supremacy, and reaction. Just need to put it all together.
And I fully admit none of this really gets us closer to revolution. This analysis would be less valuable than more effective on-the-ground organizing. But this is a topic that I think about a lot and have an interest in, and applying Marxism to it help me work through my own issues with White Evangelical Christianity.
If you haven't yet, read Jesus and John Wayne. It covers the rise of evangelical Christianity throughout the 20th century up to Bush jr. I believe. It will confirm a lot of biases but also, it absolutely is what Marx and Lenin wrote about, regarding religion being a state apparatus. Evangelism isn't a cult at all, it's literally part of the Fascist state. It's at best masked as a cult but most people just look at it as normal Christianity, which also bugs me since there are leftist Christians(actual "as Jesus taught" Christians) and also the "sheep" Christians that mostly align with evangelism but are just not biblically well read and just follow the religion just enough that they think they are actual Christians, Sunday Christians, as I like to call them lol.
If you can tap into this from a dialectical point, I think it probably could help with the revolution because a lot of Christians are moving left and either don't realize it or feel disenfranchised(rightfully so) and could be potentially integral in shifting the general Biblical understanding of what it seems like Jesus supposedly was trying to convey in the New Testament.
Sorry for the ramble, I've been drinking and this is somewhat a special interest to me. I'm actually working through it a bit with my therapist.
Evangelicals are the prime movers of fascism in the USA so I think we need that analysis of yours.
Some of us are Marxer Leninist than others, but I don't know if anyone here is the Marxest Leninist
Unrealistically, but Left Unity. I don't know how I am gonna go about it but I'm gonna fucking do it and I'm taking all of you down with me in the process.
Cybernetics, space science, and nuclear power. Red electrons, red rockets, red atoms.
A branch of science or perhaps mathematics dedicated to information collection, storage, and processing specifically in the context of controlling systems. For example, automating a command economy.
I don't really have good people skills or tech knowledge, so being a forward facing communications person or logistics/systems person for cybernetics type stuff is off the table as fascinating as I found General Intellect Unit
I'm interested in ecology and botany and would love to be part of some kind of People's Bioremediation Corps, like a big full employment centrally planned effort to do rewilding, pollution cleanup, forest management and fire prevention, etc. As climate crisis worsens and accelerates, it's gonna require something like a full mobilization and expansion of our productive forces to get emissions to zero and start scaling carbon capture and plan for weathering extreme droughts, floods, storms and so on to maintain agriculture and prevent famines, and I think that'd be a really important thing to be a part of that I could feel proud of.
Hopefully, a dedicated revolutionary, though for now that's a far-off goal. For now, reading theory is my primary method of engaging with leftism, though I look forward to the day I can put that theory into practice beyond analysis.
