As a Marxist friend of mine usually says: “If you told anyone in Russia in 1914 that the tsar will be overthrown, socialists will be in the government and led by a guy named Lenin - all before the end of the decade - they’d laugh and call you crazy.”

So ya.

You are probably the greatest fear of the people at the top. All it takes is you and I uniting for them to lose it all. And they will do anything they can to stop it.

Together, we the people, can accomplish greatness by uniting ourselves for the common good. Hunger, wars, poverty, climate change, they can all be defeated if we put a collective effort in to do so.

Almost all that’s happening in this world is happening because of a select few greedy people that want money over everything else. Times will get better if we unite to stop them.

We really have nothing to lose but our chains comrade. And we are going to lose them.

1. You are my friend. I want only what is best for you, and I think every socialist can agree with this. You aren’t alone.

2. Be humane to others and be humane to yourself. One hand washes the other here.

3. You are human and feelings are an important part of that. Don’t fight these feelings. Feel them and understand them and understandt hat sometimes you can’t “understand your way” out of certain feelings, you have to handle them or “feel” your way out of them. Does that make sense?

4. Don’t let the contradictions of our society veil the beauty which exists in the world. The natural/divine/biological world is so beaufiful and deserves to be cherished. So are humans. For all our faults we really are beautiful creatures and we all deserve to be loved and cherished.

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Not sure if this applies to you but here is mine.

Sometimes you feel down because you love life. Your ability to feel this is connected to your ability to dream of something better

Communism will win, there’s no doubt about that. Whatever problems are going on in your life, the world will be okay, and its okay to focus on your own happiness while the world keeps turning.

even snakes are afraid of snakes

Communism will win, because it’s in human nature and always has been through history, even in ancient times when we were in caves and it will win because life, uh… finds a way.

Socialism will triumph over capitalism, because unlike all lower forms of production, socialism is capable of consciously experimenting with its own theoretical foundations. If socialism loses power, it can rejuvenate itself by adapting the theory to the results of the previous experiment. If capitalism loses power, it has one attack move - to conquer new markets - and one defence move - to sabotage socialism; however, its own internal mechanics and their inherent contradictions are set in stone and have been since day 0.

This is why the liberal appeal to “learn from the failed socialist experiment” rings so hollow, namely because they do not attempt to actually do that in any meaningful way. The “lesson” liberals draw from the first generation of socialism is nil, because they are too scared to honestly analyse it and examine its strengths, because then they would have to reform away the core of the system, at which they obviously fail. Socialists - the proper ones at least - are eager to admit and drill into its failures, no matter how much it may hurt, for much like the Soviet surgeon Leonid Rogozov, it is the privilege of socialism to operate on its own conscious body.

Remember that people care about you. No matter what. Everyone has their own ups and downs and most people understand what it’s like to be in need of help. Take care of yourself and you’ll get through it, I’ll ask you tomorrow :)

The story goes like this.

One day a Persian king was reflecting on how to be a great king. He asked his scientifics to write a phrase that will always be true, in every case, forever, so that in dark time, he could follow this phrase as guidance. After many moons of thinking, the scientific came up with this phrase :

This Will Also Pass.

Everything passes, nothing is eternal, good times bad times, things we build will wither away as did the things our ancestor built. I will someday die, as you too. Our life will pass. As everything else in the world will. Entropy seeks equalization. Time won’t stop until the heatDeath of the Universe.

This Will Also Pass.

After a great battle, the king came back victorious, celebrating and all, a great party was comming, then his advisory came and told him again.

This Will Also Pass.

And so the king lowered down the intensity of the party, because even so they could be very happy at the moment, it won’t last forever and the bad will creep back one day.

This Will Also Pass.

And it did, but the king was wise, and since he didn’t get too high on the good, he didn’t get too low on the bad.

This Will Also Pass.

Don’t get too high, don’t go too low. As sad as is the fact that the good won’t be forever, we must relinquish that the contrary, that the bad won’t be for ever, is also true.

The king himself died one day. He was said to be a great king.

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No matter what you do or what happens you are going to die one day. That’s the only guarantee in life. That’s a bit scary, but it’s also freeing, right? If things are hard and painful, I like to remind myself of that. This is all just temporary.

Basically what I’m saying is #YOLO lmao

8 Reasons why Communism will Win

Because our species survived and became what we are only due to the development of collective, cooperative in deeply connected societies with high levels of trust and empathy. Because the principles of mutuality, the understanding that what is good for the group is good for each member, is the most dominant part of our primordial culture. Because helping and taking care of each other, collective child rearing, and food-sharing with kin and non-kin alike, were the evolutionary advantages which enabled us, the slow and weak but intelligent apes whose offspring need at least 10 years to become self reliant, to become what we are, to survive, and to thrive. Because it is private property, greed, coercion, and focus on individualist egoism which is alien to the Homo Sapien Sapien species, implemented merely 6 to 10k yeas ago, roughly 0.024% of the 250,000 years we have been on Earth. Because we naturally avoid isolation, detest inequality, and abhor intra-species violence.

Because egalitarianism has not only sustainably existed through out history, but is the primary social organisation enjoyed by our species, in scales small and large. From the first cities at the beginning of sedentism to native American societies to Asian and African indigenous cultures, consensus based direct democracy works everywhere continually, until propertarian empires destroy them with violence. War, systematic, large scale violence conducted by a professional solider class, did not exist prior to 6k years ago, with the advent of hierarchies based on ownership and wealth – neither did sexism, subjugation, or slavery.

Because USSR, PRC, Cuba, DPRK, etc., liberated entire populations from oppressive and brutal feudal and monarchic structures, made giant strides in every front from conditions of devastation, poverty, and under-development. In merely 20 to 30 years, all socialist states doubled life-expectancy, eliminated illiteracy, drastically alleviated poverty, provided free or nearly free housing, education, and healthcare, and achieved myriads of amazing medical and technological advances. USSR was 100 years behind the colonial/capitalist countries which industrialised from the spoils of genocide, slavery, and exploitation, but won the space race 40 years later, in almost every category.

Because in many crucial ways, even while under constant siege and immense pressures such as crippling economic sanctions and international law which criminalised other countries from trading with them, life under 20th century socialist states were preferable to life under capitalism: gender equality, economic equality, work security, free housing, free health care, free education, low crime levels, low stress levels, community cohesion, etc. These states, even with certain mistakes (revolutionaries are humans, and under extreme duress), are testament to the possibility and vast advantages of societal shift away from propertarianism and capitalism.

Because recently declassified CIA documents reveal that in all of USSR history, less people were sent to gulags than the USA incarcerates in 1 or 2 years. Because Joseph Stalin tried to resign 4 times, and died with only a few personal items in his possession. Because every anti-communist myth from the purges to the Kulaks to the “Holodomor” to the great Chinese famine have been debunked, shown to be largely wild exaggerations, distortions, and fabrications. Because it was the ceaseless, unremitting, and overwhelming capitalist military, economic, and political violence made leftist authority and revolutionary repression very much necessary, against those who want to bring back monarchy, property and privilege, and slavery; against those who would sabotage and destroy these movements toward peace and equality if given half a chance. Because revolutionary violence can only ever be a microscopic fraction of the structural violence of propertarian states that it seeks to end.

Because in even the capitalist countries, universal suffrage, the 8 instead of 12 hour work day, women’s rights, civil rights, children’s rights, and many progressive reforms, which were all dismissed as absolute impossibilities, as absurd utopian dreams, became reality due to the struggle of socialists. Because after long and hard battles from the left, against every method of repression, these progresses were successfully implemented, and are accepted as normal fixtures of life today.

Because in even the capitalist countries, already there are today many movements, on many different fronts, toward sharing economies, cooperative ways of doing things: from the rise of a global commons of shared knowledge to minimum income getting closer to reality. These things are happening in the context of the old property relations, and can be construed as a new form of fragmented capitalism. But they can also, at the same time, be seen as small movements toward egalitarianism, the kind we humans are indeed quite used to prior to the advent of private property merely 300 generations ago.

Because private property (that which generates profit), the absurdity of which every child understands, and capitalism, an inhuman and inhumane system which dehumanizes us and robs us of both autonomy and community, can not sustain. With 8 people owning half of the world’s wealth, extreme global inequality drastically increasing, financial crisis ever greater, boom and bust cycles ever more extreme, capitalism has already past its tipping point and will soon collapse. Because with stresses on the environment from the waste, over-production, and over-consumption of the profit-driven model already starting to cause climate catastrophes, the choice we have, at this crucial point in time, is either socialism or annihilation.

COMMUNISM WILL WIN.

If you want something communism-related, I guess I just like to think of past comrades like Lenin, Stalin, or one of my personal favorites, Thomas Sankara, and their stories.

Thomas Sankara is a personal hero of mine and every time I think about him, I’m inspired by everything this man accomplished for his people in literally just 4 years. It’s truly a shame that he was stabbed in the back the way he was.

If you want something not communism-related, something I like to think about is how all the odds were stacked against you and I existing, and yet, we still did.

We came from celestial material, which became cells, and which evolved over the course of billions of years into so many different forms of life, including us humans, and it resulted in so many different people with different cultures, stories, traits, hopes, thoughts, etc. We are the result of billions of years of evolution, of countless chemical reactions and physical interactions.

At least as far as I or anyone else is aware, there’s no clear purpose to any of it, but that doesn’t make life meaningless or whatever— on the contrary, it means we can give it whatever purpose or meaning we want to.

And since life is short, and something that as far as we know you only get to experience once, it makes it, or should make it, all the more valuable. It’s sad that there’s so much shit that can happen to us, whether on an individual or collective level, that makes us take life for granted or even regard it in contempt.