I'm now realising how incredibly hungry for any resemblance of hope I've been over the last period. It feels amazing. Also very fucking scary. It's what I imagine it would feel like falling in love again for the first time after being in a toxic relationship.
Keep holding out hope until there are labor parties in the west that represent working people.
In the meantime, work in your community, build solidarity locally so that you don't have to rely on political parties to do the work for you.
Me too, but the future is looking scary. The unity Biden government, full of hawkish liberals and hawkish conservatives is very scary. And Biden will just sign whatever they want him to sign, probably push for more intervention himself. GW Bush going fully into Afghanistan and Iraq allowed the left-wing to really succeed in South America, but Obama and Trump destroyed all that.
Very true. I do feel like our hopelessness is their gain though. In the sense that if we don't have hope it means we expect nothing. If we expect nothing we damn sure won't fight for anything. I think that's what Gramsci was talking about with his pessimist by intelligence but optimist by will thing.
