• @Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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    61 year ago

    Seriously. I get that we Americans have privileges from being in the imperial core, but a whole significant portion of us don’t get to exercise those privileges. We have hardly any working class autonomy in all facets of our society, countless divisions to overcome, no guarantee of housing or healthcare, and mass shootings happening every damn day in our neighborhoods and communities.

    Fuck the empire managers here and elsewhere, but the working class everywhere are victims and our suffering whether it’s in America, Ukraine, or within some other fascist state should not be glorified.

    • relay
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      411 months ago

      I’m sorry that I gave you all the impression that I enjoy the suffering of any proletariat. I am relieved at the breaking of the spell that gives the impression that Americans are different than non Americans. Maybe it will assist in the destruction of the carnival of horrors that is Imperialism. Power is when people do labor towards a certain end because they have faith that that certain end is to their benefit. The power of hope for reforms holds back the power of revolution. Despair for reform creates hope for revolution.

      Yes the true tragedy is the lack of powerful Socialist institutions in the USA. As communists we have agency over what communists do, because we are communists. Thus I implore you to build in whatever way you can when you can get over crying over the tragedy of it all.

      There are many paths to build revolution and I don’t know which actions are best for you, but education, agitation, unionization, building worker co-ops, building open source tech or other methods for class war.

      Noticing what is evil is only the first step. What you do with that knowledge determines if you are revolutionary or not.