What’s the revolutionary optimism kind of perspective on this? Cause I have a hard time integrating this kind of info from a perspective of not having organized political power; wanting to either feel doomer about it or ignore it in the hope it won’t be as immediate problem as they say because it’s so terrifying to grapple with. Or does the revolutionary optimism perspective only come from organizing itself (the knowing that you are making headway somewhere)?
I don’t have a term for this - maybe “hyperpessimistic-sadistic optimism” or something similar - but the only upside I see is that the fact that these doomsday events will happen, and the mass die-offs will follow, makes it easier to sell a Perpetual War of Systematic Extermination of the Bourgeois on the survivors.
We will, unfortunately, inherit a mostly dead Earth, but when we do, the workers who remain will finally understand that it is actually more moral to kill the owner class by the million than it is to let them live.
I think we have to accept that there will be bad things happening down the road, but we have to think about the big picture. Our optimism comes from the fact that our ideas will eventually make a better world. We might not personally get to enjoy seeing it, but it’s what we’re working towards. It doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy going.
What’s the revolutionary optimism kind of perspective on this? Cause I have a hard time integrating this kind of info from a perspective of not having organized political power; wanting to either feel doomer about it or ignore it in the hope it won’t be as immediate problem as they say because it’s so terrifying to grapple with. Or does the revolutionary optimism perspective only come from organizing itself (the knowing that you are making headway somewhere)?
I don’t have a term for this - maybe “hyperpessimistic-sadistic optimism” or something similar - but the only upside I see is that the fact that these doomsday events will happen, and the mass die-offs will follow, makes it easier to sell a Perpetual War of Systematic Extermination of the Bourgeois on the survivors.
We will, unfortunately, inherit a mostly dead Earth, but when we do, the workers who remain will finally understand that it is actually more moral to kill the owner class by the million than it is to let them live.
I think we have to accept that there will be bad things happening down the road, but we have to think about the big picture. Our optimism comes from the fact that our ideas will eventually make a better world. We might not personally get to enjoy seeing it, but it’s what we’re working towards. It doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy going.
That makes sense to me, thanks for your thoughts on it.