The thing that really pisses me off about you revolutionary absolutists, the core reason I don’t respect you, despise you even, isn’t because you’re smugly wrong. And you are, smugly wrong, overlooking every time revolution hasn’t worked, or worked briefly before collapsing.

The real despicable thing about you is that you know, deep down even when you don’t admit it, that revolution won’t happen without widespread, incredible suffering. Every “successful” revolution has been the result of starvation, abysmal poverty, and authoritarianism. They all lead to widespread death on both sides during the revolution itself. People don’t just overthrow the government on a lark, no matter how much they read. Misery is necessary to inspire people to revolt.

But you don’t care. You want things to get worse. You want people to suffer so much that they’re willing to do anything, that they’ll have nothing left to lose, and you’re hoping they choose your path to salvation.

Based on how much time you have to post online, you’re definitely comfortable. Intellectually you crave revolution, but materially you’ll be fine either way. You don’t care about what the proletariat, the ones who aren’t comfortable, will have to go through on your accelerationist path. As long as you get your revolution, damn the consequences for everyone else. The survivors will live in paradise, however long that lasts.

Didn’t pretend it’ll be bloodless. America quashed revolutions in other countries, they won’t hesitate to do the same at home. People will die. Many, many people. The only way the rest won’t lose their resolve is if the threat of death isn’t really worse than their living conditions. Sure, people are struggling now, but not risk-death-for-a-chance-at-change suffering. We have a long, long way to go before a critical mass of revolutionaries are desperate enough to try.

I want to show people glimpses of a better future, and bit by bit claw their way to better material conditions, alive and intact. You want their lives to get so horrific they literally have no other choice. It’s selfish and cruel. It spits in the face of the compassion for the proletariat which should be sacrosanct to the left.

Yet you sit in your leftist online spaces, elevating century old theory to religious dogma, intellectualizing the fineries of glorious revolution with no empathy for those who will suffer it. Every person who suffers on the descent into misery is righteous fuel for the revolutionary flame. Not you though, you’re comfortable, it’s all theory to you. The blood will be someone else’s blood, if you think about it at all.

This is not a plan of substance. It’s selfish and callous. And that sets aside the consequences of failure, or success followed by collapse.

I don’t respect it. It isn’t respectable. It’s cosplay blind to consequence. I want communism too, but I’m not going to push the people into misery to achieve communism for communism’s sake. The whole point is to elevate the working class, it doesn’t count if you decimate and subjugate them first.

I’m done with this. Keep cosplaying, you’re going to anyway. The grown ups will keep working on solutions that aren’t predicted on misery.