Zodiark [he/him]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2020
  • Zodiark [he/him]@hexbear.nettomain@midwest.social•What's the deal with Hexbear?English
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    1 year ago

    I think a lot of post-Bernie socialists started out at the same thought and aspiration: “*I just wanted some help starting my life. I don’t want to worry about increasing costs of living, rent, food, clothes, food, healthcare, education and job training. I want my opinion and voice to matter to my company, my community, my society.”

    Some people went further with it, deciding in their mind: *And I’m willing to fight for it through political activism, protesting, mutual aid".

    Then others also think in a lateral but not perpendicular way: *But I don’t want to fight for it, risk prison, or give up my comforts. I’ll stick to canvassing for Berniecrats".

    I can appreciate being averse to the fetishization and valorization of political violence as form of entertainment or coping mechanism, but eventually society’s dysfunction becomes untenable and unmalleable that a catharsis must come to pass: revolution or fascism.

    Not all revolutions are violent. They don’t have to be repeats of the revolutions of a century ago. Revolutions manifest when the administrators of the state - not necessarily it’s enforcers - just lose faith in the state and start defecting. These types of non-violent revolutions can happen.

    If thinking about the process of revolution is unpleasant, then imagine a society after a revolution.

    Who would you be and what would you do when you are free?