I sort of tell myself that it’s probably that I just hate how people are under capitalism, but sometimes I wonder if I simply dislike being around people in general.

  • CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    In a society that rewards greed and punishes empathy while grinding everyone into abject alienation from their labor, from their communities, from each other, and from themselves, it’s no surprise that so many people get molded into self-serving, willfully ignorant, insufferable pricks. It’s a feature of a capitalist society, not a bug. Capitalism cultivates and nurtures the worst aspects of human nature while trying to snuff out or at best twist the good and positive traits of our social species. There’s nothing wrong with hating the innumerable shitty people who have adapted to this mode of production by becoming shit people, so long as you don’t ever think they represent the “inherent” state of humanity or lead you to hate humanity as a whole. Don’t let that rational, understandable hatred of people as they are now, adapted under capitalism, dissuade you from seeing the beautiful potential for a loving, healthy humanity as it would be when adapted to communism.

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      You put it better than I ever could. Nothing under capitalism is left in anything resembling it’s natural state (if there even is such a thing), least of all the people living within it.