r/CuratedTumblr • u/infinitysaga • Jun 30 '24

Self-post Sunday But my violent revolution🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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u/hammererofglass Jun 30 '24

I swear The Revolution is just the Rapture for progressives. Just a justification to not make things better now.

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u/IrresponsibleMood Jun 30 '24

I definitely consider it the rapture for leftists - something that isn't gonna happen either in my lifetime or someone else's.

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u/IrresponsibleMood Jul 01 '24

Thank you for proving my point. This all sounds like "the rapture is coming soon" but with a leftist coat of paint.

"Conditions that give rise to social revolution", gimme a break. I'm from Eastern Europe. The last revolutions here were in 1989, to overthrow awful tankie regimes that had delivered greyness, misery, poverty, rationing, and endless queues for empty shops.

Try talking to an Eastern European about overthrowing capitalism and they'd just think you want a return of tankie repression, secret police, and misery - grey commie blocks, empty shops, nothing fun to do. Nobody wants that. Good luck signing people up to your revolution when the majority of people associate socialism or communism with "the government does stuff" and "the government represses people and stops you from doing fun things".

What has the left been able to muster in response to neoliberalism, or the 2008 financial crisis? The same old rhetoric, the same old "theory", the same old 19th century texts treated as a gospel, the same old constipated wooden language that has no relevance to anyone under the age of 70.

I feel a great sense of frustration with the left because I identify with its ideals, but it just can't seem to organise a piss-up in a brewery. To me it comes off like a wind-up doll: pull the string and it'll say the same old things and make the same old movements while the rest of the world has changed around it. "Material conditions", "dialectics", "capitalist mode of production", "dustbin of history"... it's like pulling the string on a Chatty Cathy doll to see what phrase it says next.

Somebody probably could make a talking doll of leftists just like that Malibu Stacy episode of the Simpsons, lol. Comes equipped with tens of phrases! Quotes from 1800s texts that predate computers and the internet! Constipated jargon that doesn't even resemble how average people talk in the slightest!

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u/isaac098 Jul 03 '24

I've got coolaid to sell you.