>>746054the mind is in a dialectical relationship with the physical world, just because the physical determines the conditions the mental finds itself in, does not mean that reality is purely deterministic. it is true that we are restricted by our material conditions, but we can still choose to work towards changing those material conditions. we cannot immediately reverse reality, but we can gradually chip away at it.
That doesn't mean that all hope impinges on the individual moral character of isolated actors, and 'working out and getting therapy' are unlikely to significantly change one's social circumstances, but equally so resigning entirely to determinism is to sap any potential of improvement or developing class consciousness.
Instead of assigning moral blame to individuals, or resigning to a nihilistic determinism that serves only to justify inaction and complacency, we should seek to take practical steps to build community efforts to improve everyone's lives.
we can't, for example, defeat the patriarchy by expecting toxic men to simply all individually realize they must 'do better', that is peak liberal idealism. we equally cannot sit back and do nothing to protect ourselves and our communities from patriarchy and the toxic masculinity that it encourages, ceding andy active efforts to reactionaries. instead, we must organize, work as groups, to make immediate, practical improvements to our communities and environments. we need workshops to teach men how to behave in ways that are not toxic, the fascists are not going to do that for us. we need teaching events for growing food, community defense, first aid, etc., the fascists are not going to do that for us. we will likely need organized military forces to defend revolutionary territory if it ever gets to that point. all of this takes work and money, but it is not up to individuals to heroically shoulder the world's burdens, it is merely our task to seek like minded comrades and band together to multiply our strength. If you are alone, you must focus on surviving until you can find others, do not take personal responsibility for all the world's ills, even if it may seem like a worthwhile exercise in empathy in some sense, do not let it become a habitual method of psychological self-harm rather than an inspiration to commit to your cause.