Hey folks, long time poster/commenter. I haven't been a good leftist in a while. I had some pretty severe mental health problems I needed to focus on, and getting my career on track. I've forgotten a lot of theory, and fuck if it doesn't look bleak as hell out there. I can't see any way out except third world maoism, and that's a longshot. But past that life just felt more fun when I wasn't constantly thinking about politics. I think some of that was because my leftism was mostly online. I did what i could in person but had limited options. But to be honest what can I do other than mutual aid? Americans are too stupid to ever see past capitalism, there's no local governance I can affect, and anything else is just adventurism. Please pull me back, I know too much to even pretend to be liberal or conservative.
Read theory(preferably with a group), and slowly become smart enough to write theory, that can help develop the revolutionary environment. Even if the theory is bad, it can help future marxists figure out what is wrong to find the correct path. My belief is the key thing lacking in the western left is theoretical development (when considering the current context in which they are in).
Ill be honest chief, this is why the west (as a whole) is not ready for revolutionary thought
very much so and i think that the ones who do think about and get paid for it have gotten so good at it that any attempts to make the public aware are deftly suppressed like they are on the lemmyverse. it makes me wonder what it'll take for popular consensus to stop being manufactured; assuming it's still possible