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The future looks bleaker every day (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 14 hours ago by cwtshycwtsh@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I wish I had a bag full of revolutionary optimism. It is incredibly difficult to avoid falling into the darkness and become paralysed. We know our planet is gonna get cooked, us and other animals too. Despite of this, wars are being fought and imperialism is trying to provoke WW3. Europe is diving into fascism and like in Finland workers are being stripped from rights to strike. People aren’t fighting any of this…

It’s bleak. Very. All I can think of is how to survive all of this and die peacefully of old age somewhere far away. Farming. I wanna do small scale farming by some bog and forest. Live in a simple cottage and knit socks for kids. That’s a good escape.

But I do remember the words of Bobby Sands, “our revenge will be the laughter of our children”, and it keeps that revolutionary fire burning inside of me just hot enough for me to push through yet another depressing day.

Maybe there still is hope. Just maybe we can stop this madness the western world is dragging us into. Maybe.

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[–] MatBC@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

I think that revolutionary optimism comes from coming to terms with how bad the situation is, and sometimes there is not much prospect of change in the short term. So we feel like giving up, but the fighting spirit cannot come just from us wishing for a better life for us, which by all means is a powerful driving force, but also from the realization, that if nobody fights for a change, future generations are gonna suffer just as much and possibly worse, so even if for us right now there is no happy retirement, we must fight for the possibility of that retirement to exist for most people, and that's our struggle, for the horrors we go through in the present to become things of the past.

I hope that this perspective is of any help, because it is in some ways harsh and it is a hard thing, I do not know your reality and maybe there are ways for you to get a better life with some luck, but to many people there is no way of escaping. Because of that, that revolution is necessary and that is why and where we can look for strength. But if you can't find it even so, we're with you either way and those of us with the will and the means to fight will fight in your name as well comrade. If you can in any way help any promising organization around you I'd highly incentivize it. But if that's not viable to, that is nothing wrong with that, we are together my friend and you are part of our fighting spirit, your story makes the fires of my anger burn stronger for every story like yours I see around me it makes my fighting spirit stronger, and I'm sure I'm not alone here so know this, you are part of the revolution, in one way or another. And I truly hope things get a turn for the better and you get to live with more peace, but until then know that there are people here who will fight for it.