There are lots of wrong things with this country, where do I even fucking start, but this really bothers me. I've been a bit involved with a little cool local BLM-affiliated organisation that grew a lot during the Floyd protests. They aren't exactly Maoists, but their politics were about Bernie level which is definitely good enough in this god forsaken country. Guess what? The white founder and de facto leader has suddenly erased every anti-police post from the Instagram feed and posted a Kamala dance celebration instead. Literally everything in this fucking coutnry is a grift, I googled an old BLM activist "friend" who got grifting work in an ultra lib congress campaign, no BLM posting anymore as well for them. This endless grifting culture is genuinely making me crazy, how the fuck do we deal with this? Look at the Bernie campaign, I'd say that more than 75% of the leading campaign figures have exposed their ultra grifting.
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It's fucking exhausting man. IMO, it's why so many leftists seemed obsessed with history and past socialist projects like the GDR and USSR. Because it lets you think for one shining goddamn second, we built something. And it was strong and powerful and had negatives, but it never got the chance to iron out those issues because it got backstabbed and crushed.
I don't think I'll ever give up communism because I'll never stop believing something better is possible, but it's exhausting to never feel like you're winning.
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Oh we will. That's why I'm a communist, because I truly believe a better future is possible. I saw one of my neoliberal friends retweet something that was like "capitalism with strong regulation and redistributive taxes is the greatest system humans have ever created" and it's like damn you really think utopia was the 50s huh.