Morning Comrades. It has been a few eventful days over at this end and rather than digging into the minuscule local details, a broader approach today, in regards to why and what for’s.
When you give yourself to the righteous fight against the, and any to be clear, oppressive and violent nature of our systemic capitalist existence, you will experience more defeats than wins, that’s just the nature of the fight. For one, it is vital to remember that “they” have to be lucky, all of the time, and we only have to be lucky once. That to start, but it is important to acknowledge how draining and defeating this choice can be, that definitely includes myself. These past few months have been tough at my end in the sense that I was too focused on my exhaustion and its inherent paths to pessimism and as usual, what it takes to remove yourself from this slump is a jolt - these can be physical as well as mental. I have to be sparing with physical jolts lest my hip truly gives up and I do tend to lend my energy to mental jolts, this one included.
Yes, of course, standing up to this bullshit reality is taxing, yet, the other side of the coin is the immense privilege of being able to fight, in whatever way we choose, for a better tomorrow. Our existence under capitalism is nothing but a man-made social construct violently enforced by institutions such as the police and their courts and so is their entire cultural drudgery that holds us down, divides and punishes us from daring to think otherwise. What then other than privilege to see otherwise and be in position to say: fuck no, we should try this! With said privilege comes joy, and like the Idles song that I am referencing above, joy is an immense act of resistance. I am finding immeasurable amounts of joy learning and teaching, organizing and doing, the later being the key word. It’s all fair and square, necessary even to learn but doing is where said joy in resistance takes place. Disregard all notions of performance and social currency and focus on what is right: building a world without need and want, equity for all and then end of property/growth as the all encompassing concept that drives every human interaction.
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