you live in the belly of the beast, but things are going to come to a fever pitch, there will likely be a terrible war, and the anti imperialist camp will likely win. The US can’t defeat russia, it cant defeat iran, it cant even defeat yemen, US imperialism is crumbling, they dont and cant produce anything, all they cling to is their financial weapons, which will fail when a real war breaks out. I have no doubt there will be a war with china, and i have no doubt the US will lose.

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Settler colonialists have always been successful in genociding the natives

Nazi germany failed.

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The Vietnam war? Vietnam has to live in a US-led world order and has to play by their rules. Same with every country that has had a successful revolution. Cuba’s still being strangled by the U.S. DPRK is isolated while occupied Korea stands entirely on U.S. backing

Each of these have been stunning victories against capitalism, and pave the path for other oppressed nations going forward

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Same for the Zionist scum knowing that with the U.S. backing them it’s impossible for them to lose, that they will eventually finish their genocide without setbacks.

The Zionist Entity is currently actually collapsing, they have the “strongest military in the world” backing them and they can’t even fucking defeat a guerilla force

How do you avoid becoming a misanthrope. To believe that human beings are inherently fascits, that fascim is the natural state of humanity. That genocide is human nature.

Look to every brave person that has fought against the fascist scourge, you live in the fascist metropole, of course the people around you are fascists

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And China raising the retirement age? That’s a sign, the beginning of the end. This will soon lead to China’s collapse and the west will pick its carcass dry again. In fact it might happen in the next 5 minutes after this post!!!

I guess this is a joke maybe? But every project will suffer setbacks, a revolution is not a dinner party, every project must deviate from its ideals in order to weather a storm, and if the chinese govt believe thats the correct path I frankly believe them

Comrade, as the others said, I have never been more certain that we will win. Be strong and be well!

Read this: CAST AWAY ILLUSIONS, PREPARE FOR STRUGGLE

Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again . . . till their victory; that is the logic of the people, and they too will never go against this logic. This is another Marxist law. The Russian people’s revolution followed this law, and so has the Chinese people’s revolution.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism.

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The slogan, “Prepare for struggle”, is addressed to those who still cherish certain illusions about the relations between China and the imperialist countries, especially between China and the United States. With regard to this question, they are still passive, their minds are still not made up, they are still not determined to wage a long struggle against U.S. (and British) imperialism because they still have illusions about the United States. There is still a very wide, or fairly wide, gap between these people and ourselves on this question.

Communism isn’t going to fall on your lap. In fact, none of us living today is likely going to see communism happen in our lifetime, not even in China.

Recognizing failures isn’t doomerism. It’s a matter of how soon one chooses to wake up from the dream, and boldly confront the brutal reality ahead of us by putting actual hard work on the ground to build the movement. Without a movement, we are destined to be crushed.

Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again… until victory. Even a revolution can be betrayed, just look at the USSR. The work is never done and even a victory can be undone if we’re not careful. Such is history.

here’s a quasi-philosophical, quasi-therapeutic blob of text that may or may not help you or other people in your position

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I could go through each of your points in turn and disprove them but I don’t think that would be terribly helpful. I think you’re feeling merely the “vibe” of late-stage capitalism which feels very… gestalt. Greater than the sum of its parts. As if, even you go through and knock down every pillar supporting it by disproving every argument above, proving that its defeat is inevitable, it would still remain standing, seemingly uncaring about the fact that it should have collapsed. It’s an almost religious force. I think finding ways to mentally contain and/or contend with that almost supernatural feeling of capitalism’s permanence and “stay in objective reality” (so to speak) is something most people go through, though not that many are able to specifically name their malaise in that way due to a lack of political reading, and it instead comes out in a massive array of forms, sometimes liberatory, sometimes reactionary.

As all humans are not capable of perfectly logical thought, at least not for very long, we do have to live in our feelings and find coping mechanisms in order to keep functioning. Some go to stoicism as a coping mechanism, while others choose to ignore politics entirely and live as hedonically as possible. Personally, I would say I have three coping mechanisms to deal with the Bad Vibe, though nobody else here must (or even should) follow them:

1. A fatalistic view of the past and future. There’s only one path that we shall ever experience, and so our “job” is to find the best way to react to and understand events as they come; we should not stress about all the possibilities. I do think this is literally true in a physics perspective (until the many-worlds-hypothesis is proved true, at least). This isn’t to deny human agency; if anything I’m a firm believer in it, and come down on the “indomitable human spirit” side, against the “cold indifference of the universe” side. I just believe that humans and their organizations are “wielded” by historical forces and are how change comes about, whether those humans are aware of it or even hate that fact. I think there’s a Mao quote around where he remarks on how capitalism or colonialism in China didn’t end itself through deterioration into nothing, it was the Communist Party that destroyed it. I think that is true, but a key part of the deterioration of capitalism is precisely the creation of revolutionary organizations which will replace it. Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were wielded like swords by history against capitalism, in the same way that Napoleon was wielded as a sword by history against feudalism. Today, Sinwar and Nasrallah and al-Houthi and others are wielded as swords by history against Israel. But there are many potential swords in history’s arsenal, and so Great Man Theory is still essentially false.

2. Taking a far-future view of current events. I’ve talked about this before in a comment months ago, where I said that one example I like is imagining some now-nameless individual who lived during the Mongol conquests of Asia - caught up in momentous events in which they heard of far-away cities being sieged and burned, not knowing if they would soon also be killed, and yet nonetheless needing to feed the cattle and harvest the fields and wash their clothes in the river and raise their family, because what other options are there? I then imagine myself, say, 300 years into the future, looking back on the events of today, when the great ongoing genocides and pandemics and horror of war has been made distant by history, where the Ukraine War is just as distant as the American Revolutionary War is today, and I imagine how little my current worries and anxieties about the future matter in the face of such large and inevitable historical forces. It’s a human-centric version of when people look up into the sky at billions of galaxies and think about how little things matter down on Earth. I think that can eventually generate a sort of… antipathy towards humanity and can feed into a “humans are the disease” ecofascism, whereas keeping humanity front and center is better.

3. Trying to maintain “socialist realism”, in the face of capitalist realism. This is the mechanism that most directly stabs at the heart of the problem, and so I try and cultivate a genuine belief that socialism not only can win, but that it must win. A Good Vibe, to counter the Bad Vibe. I think the best way to do this is a method that is generally difficult for people raised with the belief in taking in all information and trying not to be biased. That method is to simply and knowingly try and pay most attention to the good news, at the expense of the bad news. That’s not to say you should ignore the bad news per se, but I merely use the other two coping mechanisms to minimize their mental impact. Bad events can be safely quarantined in fatalism or through a far-future lens, but good news can be fully enjoyed. Doing this is nearly impossible without decent social media discipline and requires you to give up, at least a little, on the idea that “echo chamber = bad” as well as the idea that it’s your “duty” to witness suffering online despite (or even because) how bad it makes you feel. Some people, maybe even here, may fight you on those tendencies. But it’s worth doing in order to have substantially better mental health in my opinion.

I suffered through fairly intense social anxiety in my childhood and adolescence, and so I eventually had to formulate and dedicate discipline to these kinds of coping mechanisms to remain functional through personal and geopolitical hardship. It’s served me pretty well both irl and on this site, where doomers and irony-poisoned people are pretty common.

Don’t be sorry. We all have times of doubt and its healthy to give those doubts voice and see them all in one externalized screed like this.

When you look at the whole picture it can seem hopeless but this is tangled mess held together with feelings that are not in line with fact. Now you just have to pick through it all and identify the various parts of your fear blob and untangle them. Its like cleaning your bed room as a kid. It looks hopeless but you just put things away one by one. Take each individual fear match it with facts of how it can be/has been overcome and stack it neatly to the side. When you are done instead of a mess of doomerism and fear all you’ll be left with is a sorted pile of all the bad things happening and how they can be fixed.

It is true that fascists never went away they just went under the radar for a bit. But they were defeated don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise. They had to hide in fear for decades. Now that they have returned in force they will be defeated again. And because our ancestors didn’t do a good enough job the first time don’t you think the victors will be more strict in their efforts to stamp them out this time? (fool me once…)

Fascism is an ideology based on falsehoods and defined by the people it excludes. It cannot be the cornerstone of a stable society. Even if the fascists “win” they can’t win because they need conflict with the “other” to keep cohesion. They define themselves based on the struggle against who and what they exclude. In the absence of an enemy they have no defining parameters so a new enemy is created from within their ranks. If fascism were allowed to continue without opposition it would lead to everyone being dead except one person.

Peasant revolts almost always lost, got to just deal with it.

I appreciate the share, it gives perspective.