Comradeship // Freechat

Gotta kill the ~~cop~~ god in your head, comrade

Evil is a social construct and there's no such thing as absolution in death.

Guilt and shame are immaterial.

There's obviously more to it than just turning off or invalidating emotions, but understand that how you internalize and process information doesn't impact the world, doesn't lessen anyone's suffering. As such feeling shame and self-pity is materially worse for the victims of imperialism and capitalism (including yourself, to whatever degree) than doing any action to build revolution.

So like, feel what you're going to feel as a human, but exercise what influence you can over how those natural reactions translate into second-order thoughts and analysis.

First, divorce Marxist analysis from moralism. Marx didn't write Capital to describe the ways in which the bourgeoisie are evil and proletariat are good. The working class isn't good. Class is an abstract category we construct to understand and interact with material interests, not to assign individuals to heaven or hell.

Then internalize dialectical thinking. Ban yourself from static thoughts.

There's no organizing potential in the US at all

I won't address how this is patently false and likely influenced by capitalist-mediated algorithmic representations of reality from social media. It's a static thought, implies the existence of some essence of US that was, is, and always will be. But everything exists in relation to other things and everything is always growing and changing based on its internal and external contradictions.

You don't look at a sapling and tell one of its molecules: gah! This is barely a tree! There's no wood for building or fruit for eating or leaves for shade! Why even try? You've opened a biology textbook to the sapling page and fixated on a single paragraph. Or to stretch this metaphor past its limits, the textbook is written by the tree-hating bourgeoisie, who have conveniently omitted the ludicrous idea that any plant could grow larger than a sapling.

Static thinking sees binaries, dialectical thinking sees waxing and waning influences and tensions. Static thinking sees mixed material interests and reduces them to no revolutionary potential. Dialectical thinking examines the conflicting interests of imperial spoils versus proletarian exploitation, the former a reactionary tension on imperial-core workers and the latter a revolutionary tension. It analyzes the degrees and trajectories of each tension, sees waning imperial influences and waxing proletarianization, and predicts a reemergence of revolutionary potential in the imperial core.