No days ruined, mate, Romanians are pretty chill. When I espouse my communist views to Poles, for example, I get violent threats, so you’re golden.
Those left-wing parties you said were sabotaged… did you actually vote for them
Yup, I’m a Spaniard who did vote for Podemos when they rose, and I’ve seen the capitalist state apparatus + private media demolish the only chance at progressivism this country has had in half a century. Just think about it. How many countries are there in the EU? How many of them have managed to elect a left-than-socdem government since the Euro crisis? The answer is 1: Greece. And if you remember what happened with the Troika and Syriza, you’ll know that the only country which managed to elect a leftist government in Europe was literally threatened to be kicked out of the common currency. When for 2 decades not one single in country in the EU manages to pass progressive economic policy and 100% of them consistently pass neoliberal austerity bullshit, how can you have the slightest bit of trust left in the system? Go ahead and vote for your progressives, I cheer you on that and I’d do the same, but don’t break your heart too much when you see them involved in lawfare/corruption scandals/out of government through a coalition of the rest of parties.
Seeing this is big part of how I went commie, yes. I’m about 30 years old, I just found a decent-paying job in my so far successful STEM-field career.
I only defended Romania cause you attacked it. 99% of these people suck
As much as you feel that way, things aren’t much better right now in most places. People are generally good, it’s capitalism rotting our personalities and distorting our ideas. Things will get better, you’ll see, and you’ll love your country and its people. We’re romance language buddies!
Get off the commie stuff. It’s too dark.
It’s the opposite of dark. Darkness is capitalist realism: the doom of knowing that the system will not steward itself through free market relations into saving us from climate change. Darkness is being incapable of saying anything when our homelands exploit and murder billions in the global south, support genocides in Palestine and wars in Iran, and knowing that things will get worse when the inevitable far-right wave crashes into Europe in the following 5-10 years. Darkness is working for a capitalist firm and seeing your rights and your capabilities constantly eroded, your pensions and your healthcare underfunded, and the education of your children destroyed in favour of the private sector. Communism actually brings an answer to all of these questions, and it’s this answer that makes me so passionate about it. Mate, the world CAN be better than it is, but it won’t become this through elections.
You tell me to volunteer for charity: three days ago I was picking up medical material in my hometown to be sent to our brothers and sisters in Cuba with the flotilla that’s going to be arriving in a few weeks, curtailing the criminal and murderous US blockade on the island and its inhabitants. I raise you one: what if, while you carried out meaningful action such as what I just described, you were receiving and sharing political education, activism, worker organizing, etc? Mutual aid organizations, worker unions, antifascist activity… All of this is not only compatible but actually symbiotic with learning about socialism in theory and in practice.
We cannot have good leftism in the future without honest analysis of the leftism of the past: we need to analyze the mistakes of communism (treatment of people with disabilities in Romania, deportation of ethnic Koreans in WW2 USSR, LGBTQ rights on the eastern block or whatever else you want to bring up) not as blanket condemnation and as rejection of our socialist forebearers, but as honest criticism to improve on where they unfortunately failed due their lacks and the circumstances. Still, the Eastern Block was the most emancipatory, anticolonialist, anti-imperialist, egalitarian and liberating socialist movement in the history of the world, and without seeing through the anticommunist capitalist propaganda, we will never achieve half of what they achieved. That’s why I’m so insistent on this topic
No days ruined, mate, Romanians are pretty chill. When I espouse my communist views to Poles, for example, I get violent threats, so you’re golden.
Yup, I’m a Spaniard who did vote for Podemos when they rose, and I’ve seen the capitalist state apparatus + private media demolish the only chance at progressivism this country has had in half a century. Just think about it. How many countries are there in the EU? How many of them have managed to elect a left-than-socdem government since the Euro crisis? The answer is 1: Greece. And if you remember what happened with the Troika and Syriza, you’ll know that the only country which managed to elect a leftist government in Europe was literally threatened to be kicked out of the common currency. When for 2 decades not one single in country in the EU manages to pass progressive economic policy and 100% of them consistently pass neoliberal austerity bullshit, how can you have the slightest bit of trust left in the system? Go ahead and vote for your progressives, I cheer you on that and I’d do the same, but don’t break your heart too much when you see them involved in lawfare/corruption scandals/out of government through a coalition of the rest of parties.
Seeing this is big part of how I went commie, yes. I’m about 30 years old, I just found a decent-paying job in my so far successful STEM-field career.
As much as you feel that way, things aren’t much better right now in most places. People are generally good, it’s capitalism rotting our personalities and distorting our ideas. Things will get better, you’ll see, and you’ll love your country and its people. We’re romance language buddies!
It’s the opposite of dark. Darkness is capitalist realism: the doom of knowing that the system will not steward itself through free market relations into saving us from climate change. Darkness is being incapable of saying anything when our homelands exploit and murder billions in the global south, support genocides in Palestine and wars in Iran, and knowing that things will get worse when the inevitable far-right wave crashes into Europe in the following 5-10 years. Darkness is working for a capitalist firm and seeing your rights and your capabilities constantly eroded, your pensions and your healthcare underfunded, and the education of your children destroyed in favour of the private sector. Communism actually brings an answer to all of these questions, and it’s this answer that makes me so passionate about it. Mate, the world CAN be better than it is, but it won’t become this through elections.
You tell me to volunteer for charity: three days ago I was picking up medical material in my hometown to be sent to our brothers and sisters in Cuba with the flotilla that’s going to be arriving in a few weeks, curtailing the criminal and murderous US blockade on the island and its inhabitants. I raise you one: what if, while you carried out meaningful action such as what I just described, you were receiving and sharing political education, activism, worker organizing, etc? Mutual aid organizations, worker unions, antifascist activity… All of this is not only compatible but actually symbiotic with learning about socialism in theory and in practice.
We cannot have good leftism in the future without honest analysis of the leftism of the past: we need to analyze the mistakes of communism (treatment of people with disabilities in Romania, deportation of ethnic Koreans in WW2 USSR, LGBTQ rights on the eastern block or whatever else you want to bring up) not as blanket condemnation and as rejection of our socialist forebearers, but as honest criticism to improve on where they unfortunately failed due their lacks and the circumstances. Still, the Eastern Block was the most emancipatory, anticolonialist, anti-imperialist, egalitarian and liberating socialist movement in the history of the world, and without seeing through the anticommunist capitalist propaganda, we will never achieve half of what they achieved. That’s why I’m so insistent on this topic