there's so many conversations that can come from realizing that human beings aren't great. it immediately calls out so many flaws. it's like 'why are people racist?', 'why are people xenophobic?', 'why do we people intrinsically trust systems that place them at odds with each other?', 'why do people seem to lack empathy for other species, despite their tendency towards pets?'
people even have the nature of thinking we are the last step in the evolutionary ladder. that' logic' simply wouldn't exist if it weren't for human beings.
if you accept this, then you must accept the ego is an invention of the human being. the idea or concept of a 'you' in itself is a fucking creation.
and so i come back to the point, if you have to subscribe to the point that human beings are 'the most amazing things in the universe' then i say fuck you. you as the 'individual' specifically.
I agree. Misanthropy can be appealing in bleak times like these but it is also reactionary and completely contrary to our goals as communists.
Right? If I REALLY thought "fuck humans" then why would I be spending all of my time trying to change the system? To what end? For myself? No. I could be pursuing my own interests just fine if I genuinely didn't give a fuck about all the people around me, even the ones I don't like.
Communism is inherently about bettering the system for everyone, and recognising that the system inherently creates most of these human ills, not the humans themselves. Our goal as communists isn't to just say "fuck these people". It's to move them to our side and together -- as a united group -- make things better.
You have to have a lot of love to spend your time building that instead of pursuing personal achievement. Our ideology is in contradiction with hating human beings. We hate what systems can do to human beings, not human beings themselves.
That thinking is one step away from gommulism impossible muh human nature.