I’m in a bit of a doomer mood tbh. Left wing movements are at least gaining some traction where I am but they are far from principled MLs. As much as I like my own party, which even started as a ML movement, I believe we are really far away from returning to our roots. And as much as I appreciate my comrades doing their work, the liberal brain rot can still be strong. I especially feel like walking on egg shells when it comes to showing support for countries like China, DPRK, etc.
And I don’t even want to begin on the naive attitude towards the rise of the far right and possible violence lol.
That’s unfortunate. I had the impression that your party was very principled.
But yes I do, but not before things get significantly worse. I don’t have any hard data but young people are more and more rejecting the status quo. It used to be that when people entered their thirties and got married, bought a house and invested in their pension etc, they were fully bought in to the system. These days thirtysomethings are living with their parents and have nothing. Something’s got to give. Younger people are more politically aware than previous generations.
The example of China is going to become more and more stark in contrast as the standard of living worsens in Europe. The coming depression is going to be severe. After the initial reactionary nonsense that we’re seeing right now, I think we’re going to see a wave of socialist culture in the mainstream.
All based on my daydreams mind you.
We are pretty principled but we also have a huge influx of new members and that brings forth some ideological struggle from time to time
Ah, that makes sense. I don’t know man, you have way more experience at this than me. The media control is powerful, I think I’ve often under appreciated how sophisticated it is. I’ve seen some very smart people I grew up with reduced to raging warmongers with the Ukraine op and some people who were previously understanding of the nature of the USA reduced to supporting Biden due to Trump Bad. Gaza has mostly cured them all, and these were stubborn older liberals. I think Gaza is going to be marked as an historical turning point. We all came from something else. We all have cringe in our closet. If older people are being swayed, then I have a lot of optimism for the youth.
I get the doomer vibe every so often too. I find reading like minded people is restorative. For example this one today put me in a good mood. Just to see that there’s a lot of activity and people saying sensible things makes me feel less alone. They’re fighting the same battles as
youus.That article was interesting, with some quite reasonable takes. Thanks for sharing!
Thank OP for his post! Note that that article is almost a year old, but I just came across it today reading this one from Rainer Shea. I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I don’t know much about him and I just take everything at face value and have no particular allegiances.