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I often think of this passage from Leninโs text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,โ Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.
Today, Leninโs insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.
Those who despair now โ as a new world is being born โ are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and โrules-basedโ governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.
That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway โ as with the labor movement in Leninโs time โ โhave plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.โ
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reminds me of the time my "history teacher" asked the class what commumism is and i responded with "a stateless, moneyless, and classless society," and she replied "yeah, like a dictatorship!" and then called Trump a communist