Was class consciousness a mistake?

I concentrate my feelings of doom and depression into praxis for my local socialist org.

That or the Spectacle.

Either or.

I have unironically referred to my activation as something similar to the matrix

Honestly our negative feelings should be transmuted into revolutionary zeal rather than defeatism.

I believe that we have a chance for victory.

I KNOW the current order's days are numbered.

I am quite young. But I look back at history and see how much can change over the course of one lifetime. There is no guarentee of socialism, but there will be guarentees of vicious class struggle. So stay strong comrades, because there is only two ways how this struggle will end and it is

SOCIALISM, OR BARBARISM

no one ever knows that the world is about to change until it actually happens. this is why we can't give up. we have an opportunity with the rise of the alt-right and its rather revolutionary tone. we actually offer the potential for a positive revolution rather than a horribly repressive one. perhaps this is my youth as well, but i honestly think that we have been handed a wonderful chance at actual change.

This is generally something people feel when they're not class-conscious, they just don't know where it comes from so they end up burying it. You can take solace in having the proper context for this feeling and the fact that you're experiencing an appropriate/aware response rather than an alienated one. Negative feelings function as an impetus to fix a problem, by the way.

With me it's not so much despair, but anxiety. I sometimes panic at the idea of oncoming crisis and/or chaos due to this system's contradictions is troubling. That and I always go back to thinking about those said contradictions. I think I may need some help.

I get that feel too, but having a creative outlet helps more. For some who can't channel their despair into action, catharsis is a good alternative, but should never be had when you can, or so I've heard.

Fight Club is Anarchist as fuck TBH.

No because the human body responds to stress and class creates stress. You can't get rid of it without hard wiring a person somehow to be a numb monster who doesn't feel stress and is single minded and violent, like an Orc or some shit.

This is actually pretty illuminating. Thank you fam. It helps to slowly and entrysticaly tell people what's really up and how the system functions this way. I always feel better after telling someone who's in despair.

Wait a tic…

Well, it sure as hell doesn't feel rewarding

Fuck off, leftcom

I actually remember first becoming a Socialist and being really excited about this new worldview, I felt that I could finally see reality without any delusions and that I was finally untangling the web in front of me.

It's the attempt to translate those ideas into reality that has been the most soul-crushing, bitter and disappointing experience of my life.

Wew lad

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no

we all do. get a hobby. I play video games and read yuri manga to ease the pain…

marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm

There is no time to be depressed. We must educate ourselves as much as possible. Even if we won't be able to harvest the spoils, we still have to turn the wheel of the dialectic. We must make sure that the far-left remains alive even if in its current weakened form. So that the future at least has a base to work from.

I feel you man, but there is a silver lining. To be class conscious is also to be liberated from the invisible chains that capitalism puts into peoples' minds.

Do you still want all the classic metrics of success in capitalist society? A big house and an expensive car, designer clothes, to look like the models in advertising, appreciating stocks, and a fat 401k? Not if you are conscious - you know that all of that either requires exploitation on your part, or amounts to having capitalism exploit various aspects of you, such as your own bodily insecurities.

And now that you don't desire those, you are free to go back to all the small pleasures that make life worthwhile. To be with friends and family, to make love, or enjoy a cold beer on a hot day. All the images of pleasures in excess of that have been dispelled as illusions, and you can be happy again with the real.

Or something.

Of course, to the extent that capitalism keeps even those small human pleasures from you, you are indeed stuck in a living hell.

What class consciousness, that is a spook

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like money? yes.

This picture is painful to look at.

How much?

I want enough to be able to afford a small patio and a dog based on the millions I've made my employers and the pittance I've received that's forcing me into downward mobility. thats not capitalism. thats fairness. Everyone who contributes to the wealth of Porky deserves to share in the spoils.

Tankies think we can just magically wake up one day and have collective farms. so obnoxious.

Have you looked into how much would that take? Do much do you save/spend currently?

Cost of living in my hometown has rapidly grown to the point where most of the locals are getting pushed out. Believe me, I save. Should I pick myself up by my bootstraps?

No, I was just wondering what situation you were in. I did mean what I put into the spoiler you know.