Death to the Bourgeoisie and its lapdogs – Long live the Red Terror - 1918

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable..

Marx, Editorial in Final edition of Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1849)

Also fuck the dems, theyre using fear and anger all the time, just listen to their dog whistle bullshit about migrants and the border, look at the most important election of our lives bit

theyre sick

Too good at it

I think it is not a matter of punching up or punching down but how either is done. If you straight up tell rural poor people you want to make their lives better and build a better future for all it will simply not connect and perhaps even get you called "gay." If you meet them where they are and tell them their towns aren't shit and they have been voting for shit because they have been too demoralized to pursue what they are owed, they might actually say you are giving the tough talk that is needed and that you aren't mincing words like some bullshitter.

You are less likely to uplift the already downtrodden by starting off with a message couched in positivity and auspiciousness, it just is not how the terms of engagement in such societies are. I have lived in the poorest areas in India, China, Jordan and the US and I know this much to be true. That is not to mention that rural red area politics aren't a monolith, and there are good chunks of people who are liberal but outnumbered, hate the beliefs and policies of where they are, and are forced to hold their tongue due to social pressure, and such people are just waiting for a fearless shit talker left-leaning leader to galvanize them and finally make their displeasure socially acceptable enough to voice.

Is your hate pure?

I embraced it. There is nothing left that ties me to these wastes of genetic material other than a national identifier that I don't even claim anymore. I reserve my Marxist tendencies for my people-- mother fuck an 'Amerikan'.

I think the tendency for the left to not revel in hatred and violence is multi faceted, but it ultimately stems from two points.

A. We have objectives that are material.

B. All wars end at some point.

Reactionaries revel in violence and hatred because it’s really all they have to offer.

Agreed but I meant more as a rhetorical tool by leadership, and a talking point dissemination strategy

Sure but there is no way to implement a policy that makes people's lives better that doesn't initially go against the will of a ton of people who'd actually benefit down the line. It is never going to be a process where you first convince everyone who'd eventually use something to get on board with passing it, it's always going to be you steam rolling that third of people polarized against it, and then when they find some occasion later to use the benefits you've passed, because "fuck it, they're there anyway," that the benefits become unretractable. There is no path to public welfare that lets you avoid paternalism and believing you know what's better for some people than they do themselves.