Love and Western Nihilism - CounterPunch.org
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How dreadfully depressing life has become in almost all of the Western cities! How awful and sad. It is not that these cities are not rich; they are. Of course things are deteriorating there, the infrastructure is crumbling and there are signs of social inequality, even misery, at every corner. But if compared to almost More
    • @pimento@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2•3 years ago

      Its been more than a week since I read that article, and that sentence is really my own interpretation of it. What I mean is that not succumbing to this western nihilism described in the article, is also a revolutionary act on its own. Sure a violent revolution is necessary sooner or later to take over state power, but only a small number of people will ever take part in that. Which is why this view that revolution = violence is nonsense to me.