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.
All in stray thoughts
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?
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.
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.”
Let’s be materialists about this.
Deontology morally supports the development of meaningful freedoms, and Marxism aims to do just that in practice.
Does the idealism of deontology make it incompatible with Marxism? (No, but Marxists should be materialists, and get the strategic benefits of engaging in a materialist analysis.)
“If only everyone else held the same views as me! Then we’d have a world without exploitation that meets all of our needs! This means that if we simply make our arguments more forcefully, more convincingly, more sympathetically—then we will have a mass movement of the working class!” — Idealists