The main ones causing problems in the world are rich capitalists, but there's basically no viable threat to them or their power currently and it looks like there isn't going to be one in the foreseeable future.
People in China, I imagine, are probably on the whole, more optimistic for the future and generally happier
Apparently yeah at least in 2016: https://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-reports/2016/01/05/chinese-optimism
Capitalism is in a death spiral. It's weakening and its failure is inevitable. It's happening right before our eyes. Don't give up hope.
how about propaganda of the mead, and you're teaching people about how to make an alcoholic beverage from honey
How about propaganda of the seed, and you go around planting orchards full of fruit trees
to hang billionaires from after you kidnap themto provide healthy local agriculture to your community.how about propaganda of the feed and u make sure people have a happy tummy
Here is a cool one, rich people get 30% more tickets than the poor or middle class but on average pay lower insurance on the same vehicles.
Why? Because they live in ritzy neighborhoods with low car theft so their insurance is always lower.
revolutionary optimism, you have nothing to lose but your chains lol
I want to move to bolivia after school just so I can possibly help a movement that actually has potential and power, especially one in Latin America.
Hope is a delusion caused by the consideration of “success”/“failure”. Abandon hope, abandon delusions of success or failure. Have faith, whatever it is you can truly put your faith in, and act accordingly. We are doing this not because it is easy, not because it is attainable, but because it is the right and proper thing to do.
Are you in the US like me? Maybe I'm overblowing it but it seems to me like there have been more and more unionization efforts in various industries and businesses, more and more shit like tenant's unions out of simple necessity, basically people being forced to remember that they're way the fuck more effective and powerful when they group up.
From there, hopefully, even if they aren't explicitly communist or socialist or anything, we'll at least see enough people willing to band together and use the muscle of collective action to exert some meaningful pressure, and hopefully in time to actually help with stuff like the climate.
Even if things fail to improve here in the dying empire, at least it could hopefully open things up for Latin American leftism and stuff like that.
The rate of profit continues to fall and has for decades, the stock market is completely detached from reality, and climate change is going to put a serious cramp on accumulation that no amount of space mining can offset. Everything Marx predicted that was stalled by the siege of the Soviet Union is now coming true in full technicolour.
On the other hand the left is more organised and radicalised than at any time since the early 80s despite the superficial electoral defeats. Unionisation is up and more radical and several Mutual Aid networks I know are formalising their distribution systems to allow aid at large scale. The seeds of a real multi-tendency cadre is there, and popular sympathy grows every day. Their attempts to merc South America failed hilariously and Africa too is swinging left.
In China, Xi is slowly swinging away from the primitive capitalist development of recent decades now he has a commanding economic position. Mose socialist internal policy and more internationalist external policy is slowly being developed.
Things are good comrade, the final crisis of capitalism is coming and while we aren't ready for it yet, we will be.
Well, adventurism is a bad fucking idea, but in the context of a mass struggle where violence is openly employed as a means of repression, yeah, people do need to be willing to suffer injury and death to advance the cause.
Don't any of you fuckers go getting yourselves got now. Just, there probably will come a time when we have to face that reality if we can't change things otherwise.
*And to be honest: I really don't want things to get there. I'm a massive fucking fan of people not killing each other, even shitty people. It's just something important to think about sometimes.
Yeah, the revolution will probably be necessary, but there's still a part of me that desperately hopes we can basically have a fucking miracle and have the first non-violent transition of fundamental powers in human history, because revolutions suck ass and people get brutalized and killed in huge, mind-numbing numbers.
