While our comrades may bristle us at times, they are the ones who are in this journey with us. If we are to be free beings, and if we are to create a free world, we must commit ourselves ten-times-over to finding mutual understanding with them.
While our comrades may bristle us at times, they are the ones who are in this journey with us. If we are to be free beings, and if we are to create a free world, we must commit ourselves ten-times-over to finding mutual understanding with them.
There seems to be a gut-feeling to care first-and-foremost for ourselves, our friends, and our families—before we can extend that kindness to others. But communists want to meet as many people’s needs as possible to the best of our collective ability, without this favoritism. What do we do?
Part 4
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
The practice of proletarian and revolutionary grief. Avoiding self-harming styles of grieving.
The only way out is through. We must win.
Part 3
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
A more materialist, pragmatist view of loss. Understanding our grief, so we might see a path forward.
Part 2
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
I think we're healthier when we avoid religion and spirituality in processing our grief. I suggest a materialist, pragmatist, humanist path—it's harder work, but more fulfilling and real.
Part 1
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
Capitalism imposes so much loss and death on us. How can we handle all this grief—so we can carry on and achieve a world where such deep suffering is not built into our social relations?
Trigger Warning: discussion of thoughts of suicide (and reasons not to commit it which were/are convincing to me)
Eugene V. Debs, David Graeber, Michael Brooks, Jean Paul Sartre
On some benefits of writing, for self-clarification and communal struggle
Comrades and organizers would be more effective if we used a language of Non-Violent Communication rather than the language of bourgeois rights. Doing so would meet people’s needs more effectively in cases of interpersonal conflict, and would add nuance and clarity to our material analysis.
I think most people nowadays misread this quote, or at least, don’t recognize the full meaning behind it. Here’s to rediscovering this revolutionary principle of communist society.
“In a communist society, we’d labor freely and uncoerced by others, so that we can support the free laboring and self-determination of all. We apply our abilities to support all of our needs, and fulfilling our needs supports our abilities to build wonderful and satisfying lives with each other.”
the doomer’s historical materialism:
“My ultimate fear—the scariest thing I can imagine—is that the democratizing promise of technological advancement will always be scuttled by the lockstep developments in technologies that strengthen and obscure the social domination of the ruling class.”