>>2521009>>2521079>well i mean you do need things to get bad, or at least substantially worse than the normal for things to actually start happening, organization really only matters if there's anything actually going on, as you'll learn from a good few historical examplesSee things have been getting bad for a while now. I mean talking about my own family, my grandfather was a manager for Sears back in the day and could afford a home in a good neighborhood, a wife that could stay at home, three kids, vacations, and a really cozy retirement. My dad is a manager in a grocery store and could afford a house near "the ghetto" and two kids with my mom having to work to support us, and even then the house is showing its age and needs repairs.
I work in a grocery store and can afford to rent.
Things have gotten worse for a substantial number of people. Though I suspect part of the problem is we engage in this Steven Pinker line of thinking where we fallaciously compare the economy of today to underdeveloped economies of yesterday: "Oh you think this is bad? Well did you know that a century ago you would've been an illiterate dirt farmer?!"
Shit if I remember right, Lenin thought Communists should be organizing always, in good conditions and in bad ones. But I think it's something curious to the American political imagination where we only perceive political change coming from a general collapse. Wait for the old system to just kill over, revert back to the Wild West, then as the old saying goes "MY civilization will emerge from the ashes!"
Like fucking Ayn Rand of all people thought the state collapsing would give libertarians carte blanche to build their utopia. So I don't believe the poor state we find ourselves in is a matter of "conditions not being right" or some inherent failure on the part of the people. I think its on us. I believe we have to take responsibility for the state of the Left here. And we need to figure out better strategies for actually organizing people in real life.
I know this is gonna piss people off, but I was reading a bunch of articles on Trump and the rise of nationalism globally. The more explicitly lefty ones repeated this mantra: "The ONLY way t
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