Anachronistic might not be the right word for it (also im drunk) but I really do feel like I'm "born in the wrong generation" (yes I know the cliche)
all these 19th and 20th century revolutionaries and theorists really appeal so much to me (im a narcho but I do read theory and I do read marx thank you very much) and it saddens me how there is no such movement today, even socdems are dead nowadays
anyways, share advice, share stories, drown in your sorrows whatever idk
Marx's dialectic is nothing compared to the dialectics of internet piracy.
Leo Foster
You're not anachronistic. The world is shit.
Ethan Campbell
I know what you mean comrade. Think of it this way, there were great revolutionaries in the past, but they all either failed or became oppressors themselves. Its highly doubtful that one person could have made a difference in this. Nowadays we at least actually have a chance to succeed, and the material conditions are increasingly ripe for socialism. I do share your disillusionment with the modern day left though.
Adrian Torres
I definitely agree, I wouldn't want to live in the past at all I just feel like we don't have a movement that reflects the current material conditions
William Barnes
Oh boy, is it time for another hauntology thread?
Andrew Phillips
Are you trying to come out as trans*generational**?
Landon Hernandez
I certainly feel anachronistic, either born too late or too early to do anything for the cause. Like the last follower of a pagan god forgotten by the entire rest of mankind. That said, there already is a leftyfeels thread.
Luis Hernandez
I was raised anachronostic. Folks split and dad wouldn't buy me anything they didn't have before WWII. So yeah.
Justin Clark
Don't you be age-normative you heteroagist.
Matthew Ramirez
I feel like I was born maybe 5-10 years too late to do anything. If I had become aware of leftism earlier, reached adulthood earlier, maybe I could have gotten involved in the left and helped change things. But now it seems like we're past the point of no return and we're on an oil rig in the middle of the sea that's caught fire.
Colton Reed
Post scarcity is the death of the state and capitalism indeed
The world is not shit, not even in a metaphorical sense
If you are talking about the American left; I wonder when people in the united states will appreciate the fact that their two party system are serving the same business interests. Trump is doing exactly what Clinton promised to the banks. And the same bankers sit in his cabinet.
Excuses for not taking action tbqf
Cameron White
Make me stop thinking Posadism isn't all that bad. I dare you.
Chase Morgan
If Posadism is shit, then it is just a turd floating in a sea of World.
Tyler Hernandez
You might not die in the nuclear blasts. You might develop radiation poisoning and die a slow excruciatingly painful death.
Brandon Hughes
not in the sense you're probably thinking of, longing for powerful 19th century labor movements. I feel like I'm suck fighting the last World War. It's like the war never ended. every year I see the same Swastikas and Stalhelms being worn by different people. The struggle against Fascism is waged ruthlessly today in the Middle East and South East Asia. the unspeakable evil that was done to my family and others is what has motivated me to make great sacrafices for the People's movement.
Dylan Collins
Knowing that the world as we knew it has ended is worth the risk.
Dylan Adams
capitalism won and until that's truly why accelerationism is the only answer
Nathan Martinez
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Lucas Nguyen
It does seem as though this discussion is overdue already.
Alexander Brooks
the problem, imo, is even capitalism seems moribund by this point. Modern Capitalism is not this vital disruptive force, it feels more like some sort of unwieldy simulacrum that definitely isn't going anywhere, much less 'accelerating'.
Ian Ward
diff user here - i agree but never underestimate the power of a good marketing budget, let alone a well funded one
Benjamin Allen
Actually every day I gain more confidence and resolve that where I'm heading will bring success to the cause. Glory or The Gallows!
I see the abysmal mileau as a challenge to overcome at every step. Diamonds are only made after applying tremendous pressure, and I'm mining for some serious gems. I used to feel apathetic but then I stopped smoking pot and paying rent, and deleted all my social media accounts.
I don't get the notion of wanting birth in another time. Youre here now, so be here. Are you really defeated? How much have you actually tried? You have to free yourself by any means necessary, and not take a drop of the imperialist corporation's kool aid.
Action alone, even subtle like changing your speech habits(look up/duckduckgo bookchin instead of G**gle, fascist instead of republican, north america instead of america) , is the only thing that can move you forward.
Zachary Roberts
We have a clean table now. Time to do some theory instead of revolutions. First thing is to learn from past mistakes.
Liam Hall
Is there a PDF of that book anywhere?
Luis Lewis
It does sadden me how Eastern realpolitik basically fucked the left out of its big chance at world relevance.
Evan Reyes
What, like when Stalin backed the Kuomintang instead of Mao?
Brayden Phillips
also want
Jack Fisher
What action? The only thing I could do was go to Rojava, and I'm in no condition to do it.
I just looked around the old book piracy sites and it looks like a lot of them are down. But I found a couple with epubs.
All the past utopians failed because they have built their theoretical societies on fixed ideas. We can do it now, with knowledge of the fundamental flaw that propped the humanitarian cataclysm and newfound understanding of Stirnerian egoism as a better ground for social, economical and political theory needed to craft a new breeed of socialism.
Dominic Reyes
if you think it's hard getting the normies into socialism, try getting them into 'accelerationism'. not really something with mass appeal. At best 'accelerationism' is the product of an alienated subject that is not yet aware of the causes of its alienation.
the b-ok link 404s for me and I can't access libgen because the UK government are bastards
Blake Hall
Enjoy comrade. Fuck the UK nanny state.
Carson Nguyen
Cheers, user. Appreciate it.
Kayden Ward
And yet the beauty of it is that it doesn't need to be a mass movement. It's not meant to be, it never has been, and it never will be. If you're going to do anything, don't try to smash the system - it will destroy you every time. Poke it gently in the right spot so it grows in a different way. If you want something to mobilize large numbers of people to a specific purpose, don't rely on words. Do something with what technology you have at hand.
Adam Williams
Heroic post.
Ryder Smith
Huh, the conversion worked fine. Every time I tried to convert PDF to EPUB ended in disaster.