askchapo

The tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

I have hope that the decline of the empire will enable revolutions around the world. We could see "global communism" by default as global capitalism collapses, while actually existing socialist states and new revolutionary governments form a new world system.

I... don't have a lot of hope inside the imperial core. I think it's gonna be barbarism.

Nothing. The approaching climate catastrophe is civilization ending at best, we'll be doing well if humanity as a species makes it out of the 21st century. "Just" wide scale civilizational collapse would have been extremely likely even with the ~3 degrees of warming we would have gotten if we had pulled out all the stops ~2 years ago, but we didn't and we're getting a lot more than that.

Humanity is fucked and we seem determined to take a LOT of other life with us.

In our lifetime, we will be subjected to climate catastrophes that will make the previous hurricanes, floods, fire storms, heat domes, etc look like tutorial levels. These events will cause major internal and international migrations, and the western world will crack down on its populations while letting fewer desperate migrants in. Meanwhile, the younger generations, who are inheriting this vile shitshow, will have the opportunity to reject the system that brought them to this point. After they pick fascism, a whole lot of people will die, the fascists will eventually be defeated, and two or three generations from now, our grandchildren will build communism from the ashes

there are a lot of countries i don't live in

The fact that capitalism is collapsing faster than we had anticipated. People are going to get sick of this shit eventually.

Even a little bit of community can do a lot, sometimes it just helps you speak a few words in the right ears at the right time to make things happen. And making one or two new friends isn't that hard. If all of us on here can do that with principles and theory behind us, things can change faster than we think

I think it feels hopeless because we don't really see the widespread revolutionary potential until it all comes together (in the context of a well alienated society). Go join something, anything really and you'll meet some people waiting to become comrades

absolutely nothing lol. even if a global communist revolution erupted yesterday and won instantly and bloodlessly, we'd still be fucked by a collapsing biosphere. that hasn't happened, so we're fucked^2^. if things don't change extremely soon, i think we're far more likely to see eco-fascism grip the West than even just tepid social democracy (which is objectively the moderate wing yadda yadda) as the climate refugee crisis kicks in to full gear. but also lenin didnt think he'd see revolution either, so im open to being surprised, it's just impossible to keep actual hope alive given the circumstances. as other people said, no reason to give up trying though when the literal fate of humanity and most species is at stake this late in the game.

The stupidity and feebleness of modern capitalists

I don't see it happening in my lifetime. Maybe in another place. What keeps me hopeful is seeing socialist thought appearing through the cracks of the continuously fading away neoliberal order, despite everything they've tried to extinguish it.

My goal is to leave something, for those who come after me, one day they are going to succeed. That's what gives me hope. People have told me that my emotions make me weak and that's why I am a loser, but if that's true then why have the winners failed to accomplish anything? Endless wars doesn't seem like an accomplishment to me.

The internalizing of American capitalism propaganda among wealthy Americans who forgot that it's supposed to be just propaganda and not a how-to.

How much more fucked everything has visibly gotten in such a short time and how acutely aware most people are of it

That the DPRK still manages to exist. There's probably no greater proof that communism works than the DPRK surviving the Fukuyama end of history neoliberalism blitz and still being committed to improving the lives of its citizens.

Other than that, climate change.

nothing. good things do not happen in america

I do not think it will. If it does happen it will be unpredictable and triggered by an unrelated factor. All the successful revolutions of the 20th century (except perhaps Cuba's?) came in the wake of reality-overturning events like a world war or successful anti-colonial struggle. In the fiction book Green Mars (spoilers to follow) the Martian independence revolution is kicked off by massive collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth and subsequent 6 meter sea rise. So mostly it's about being ready to take advantage of events instead of building expressly toward revolution. And that event does not arrive on a schedule.

Absolutely nothing. There's no reason to be hopeful. BUT, if it doesn't happen pretty soon, it's over for humanity. So there's no reason to give up on trying either.

Honestly I am expecting communist revolutions within the next decade. Just not in the imperial core. We will go through a significant period of pure barbarism before communism is attempted.

Depends what you mean by that. Revolution in general ? In some parts of the world ? In some countries ? I think that is absolutely possible. Global communist revolution (and I dont mean to be a doomer) I dont think that is going to happen in the next 20 years. Its totally possible im wrong mind you im literally just going with my gut feeling here.

Nothing ever happens until it does.