After watching most of the legal and social advances made during the second half of the twentieth century being reversed by the worst Supreme Court in U.S. history, at the same time that "liberal" sorts, such as Gavin Newsom, the current governor of California, declares homelessness to be a crime and insists that the state constitution not prohibit slavery as it would cost the state too much in lost profits, and "socialist" Bernie Sanders lauds Biden's performance as President (Gaza/Ukraine/China baiting), I honestly see no hope for our species. If climate change doesn't ultimately do us in, the exchange of nuclear weapons, probably will. Obama, in his final Defense Authorization Act, approved a multi-year, multi-billion dollar program to develop a new generation of miniaturized nuclear weapons. There are few, if any intelligent, progressive people, in government. In time, another species will evolve; perhaps they'll discover homo sapiens and wonder what the hell happened. The universe will go on, without us...
So I liked this comment cuz I think it's really eloquent and points to key problems in a brilliant way but as you may know I have not given up on the species and revolution and agree with Revcoms and others that there are revolutionary possibilities to be cultivated in this moment when the ruling class is remarkably divided and its old ways of ruling have lost a significant amount of legigitmacy.
Oh, you mean like in the 2004 election where the electorate committed political suicide, leading the way to today. Wake up liberals! S--t or get off the pot!
I have always thought that Marx and Engels were TOO optimistic regarding human basic morality and concern for the common good. We're basically greedy shits.
After watching most of the legal and social advances made during the second half of the twentieth century being reversed by the worst Supreme Court in U.S. history, at the same time that "liberal" sorts, such as Gavin Newsom, the current governor of California, declares homelessness to be a crime and insists that the state constitution not prohibit slavery as it would cost the state too much in lost profits, and "socialist" Bernie Sanders lauds Biden's performance as President (Gaza/Ukraine/China baiting), I honestly see no hope for our species. If climate change doesn't ultimately do us in, the exchange of nuclear weapons, probably will. Obama, in his final Defense Authorization Act, approved a multi-year, multi-billion dollar program to develop a new generation of miniaturized nuclear weapons. There are few, if any intelligent, progressive people, in government. In time, another species will evolve; perhaps they'll discover homo sapiens and wonder what the hell happened. The universe will go on, without us...
So I liked this comment cuz I think it's really eloquent and points to key problems in a brilliant way but as you may know I have not given up on the species and revolution and agree with Revcoms and others that there are revolutionary possibilities to be cultivated in this moment when the ruling class is remarkably divided and its old ways of ruling have lost a significant amount of legigitmacy.
"I know you don’t want to hear all that from an actual Marxist and communist like me."
I DO...
Thank. you!!
Oh, you mean like in the 2004 election where the electorate committed political suicide, leading the way to today. Wake up liberals! S--t or get off the pot!
I have always thought that Marx and Engels were TOO optimistic regarding human basic morality and concern for the common good. We're basically greedy shits.
well, this is what leading bourgeois theorists of "human nature" from Hobbes through Daniel Defore have long argued!