If the PSL have operated as Democrat Party cutouts in the transparently staged violence currently being used to justify crackdown, then in my opinion, PSL are too stupid for association, above or underground.
I love our brothers in the movement who have a heart for the commonweal, but the more I see of ideologies and ideologists, the less I believe either will ever carry us toward a better way of life. Codifying a set of principles is the surest way to rob them of meaning while guaranteeing internecine bickering will overtake the principled.
I am of our people, and for our people. The wealth we create belongs to us. Through all the years of my adulthood, I have been learning to live below my means, avoiding debt, eschewing unnecessary consumption, and sharing my extra as opportunity presents. If doing so marks me as an enemy of the state, then the state's actors and agents are the source of that enmity; I am not. If the "democracy" pantomime is over, will I suffer? Of course. But as a cynic in the archaic sense, I have harbored few illusions about violent gangs and the compacts they pretend to make with their prey, however bright their flags and slogans.
The revolution we seek is in our thinking, in the ways we relate to each other, and its first job is to demonstrate the value of our ideas. Red Scare and all, during my boyhood in the 1960s, America took it for granted that all societies were evolving toward a time when money would be superfluous, when status would depend from the contribution one brought to the comity. Billions have been spent in the meantime to project into the mass of people a surreal vision of every public project as totalitarian plot, thwarted in the nick by a gore-encrusted patriotism. I speculate those billions were spent in a sort of systemic defensive spasm, as entrepreneurial capitalism devolved into a system of rents and bribes, a system suspended over an abyss by an eager consumerism reflexively trading its labor for debt at ruinous rates. But however those billions came to be spent, they were startlingly effective, and the revolution in heart and thought that we seek is now much farther from us, in my opinion. What is now the rational response of those who envision living unmolested in peace amid the abundance we certainly produce?
I wish you courage. "The pretenses of liberty" are, I fear, what many limit themselves to aspiring to.
If the PSL have operated as Democrat Party cutouts in the transparently staged violence currently being used to justify crackdown, then in my opinion, PSL are too stupid for association, above or underground.
I love our brothers in the movement who have a heart for the commonweal, but the more I see of ideologies and ideologists, the less I believe either will ever carry us toward a better way of life. Codifying a set of principles is the surest way to rob them of meaning while guaranteeing internecine bickering will overtake the principled.
I am of our people, and for our people. The wealth we create belongs to us. Through all the years of my adulthood, I have been learning to live below my means, avoiding debt, eschewing unnecessary consumption, and sharing my extra as opportunity presents. If doing so marks me as an enemy of the state, then the state's actors and agents are the source of that enmity; I am not. If the "democracy" pantomime is over, will I suffer? Of course. But as a cynic in the archaic sense, I have harbored few illusions about violent gangs and the compacts they pretend to make with their prey, however bright their flags and slogans.
The revolution we seek is in our thinking, in the ways we relate to each other, and its first job is to demonstrate the value of our ideas. Red Scare and all, during my boyhood in the 1960s, America took it for granted that all societies were evolving toward a time when money would be superfluous, when status would depend from the contribution one brought to the comity. Billions have been spent in the meantime to project into the mass of people a surreal vision of every public project as totalitarian plot, thwarted in the nick by a gore-encrusted patriotism. I speculate those billions were spent in a sort of systemic defensive spasm, as entrepreneurial capitalism devolved into a system of rents and bribes, a system suspended over an abyss by an eager consumerism reflexively trading its labor for debt at ruinous rates. But however those billions came to be spent, they were startlingly effective, and the revolution in heart and thought that we seek is now much farther from us, in my opinion. What is now the rational response of those who envision living unmolested in peace amid the abundance we certainly produce?
Too bad, so sad! Go to 🇨🇳!
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/5822638/weixel-v-new-york-city-housing-authority/ my parents stood up to McCarthyism when I was a kid. As I recall the CP members who went “ underground “ in those days went into the Democratic Party. But hey, good luck living off the land.