Every person alive holds views that the truly decent would find abhorrent. It’s no excuse to give up on one another, or on ourselves. The point is to change the world, comrade. Misanthropy is self-destructive and destructive to our movement.
I probably spoke too strongly. All I mean to say is that there are no perfect people. It seems self-evident to me that our communist descendents will look back at us with pity and resentment but maybe that’s a bit of internal doomerism I need to self-crit about. The struggle sessions this site has had in the past have really put me off the idea that “communists” in general are good people or that we don’t have a lot of growing up to do.
Every person alive holds views that the truly decent would find abhorrent. It’s no excuse to give up on one another, or on ourselves. The point is to change the world, comrade. Misanthropy is self-destructive and destructive to our movement.
I don’t think that’s true. I think you made that up.
I probably spoke too strongly. All I mean to say is that there are no perfect people. It seems self-evident to me that our communist descendents will look back at us with pity and resentment but maybe that’s a bit of internal doomerism I need to self-crit about. The struggle sessions this site has had in the past have really put me off the idea that “communists” in general are good people or that we don’t have a lot of growing up to do.
Proudhon quote
Yeah, well, I’m the executioner from tomorrow. I have a political project so advanced it’s not even allowed to be posted yet.