imagine stretching your food store through a region-wide famine and crop failure, or watching your family all catch cholera, or getting shot by the white army…
If hardship is necessary for a better future, it’s necessary. But people should contemplate what that hardship will actually look like and understand what they’re actually advocating.
Socialism is a mass project: educating the masses and gaining their support. People will endure hardship if it’s necessary and they understand why it’s necessary, but they’ll fight if it’s imposed from above with indifference or flippancy.
If hardship is necessary for a better future, it’s necessary. But people should contemplate what that hardship will actually look like and understand what they’re actually advocating.
Socialism is a mass project: educating the masses and gaining their support. People will endure hardship if it’s necessary and they understand why it’s necessary, but they’ll fight if it’s imposed from above with indifference or flippancy.