Idk when exactly this surged to much, but when I go outside now I see “Festung Europa” and other Nazi stickers basically everywhere, also “Deutschland erwache!” graffiti in prominent places without anyone caring to remove them. I feel like I am going insane. It seems as though defending migrants when someone says they are all criminals and “human trash” that needs to be “wiped off the streets” just makes me a criminal supporter in the eyes of almost everyone, it is like their brains melted so much they cant even spot the simplest logical fallacy.
American social media are just almost purely propaganda platforms now, but everyone keeps using them because they have grown addicted.
What will the final result of this be? Absolute obedience to a political system that shits on every poor person while they still vote for it? Deportation of every migrant because they believe it will eliminate crime?
They behave like bullies that use psychological violence over physical violence like fascists in the past, and they will deny being fascists but behave exactly like them.
It feels so hopeless
I just needed to write down my thoughts, have a nice day
Where are these people that you talk of that have favourable views of China in Germany haha? (Just a rhetorical question no real answer pls you know why)
The only good thing this political landscape has taught me is to be more assured in hating it more, I am now completely free of any doubt that we truly live in a completely corrupt system that is immune to any change besides the surface level. I doubted that in the past, but now I think Lenin was completely right even over 100 years ago. It is insane how little has changed below the surface. The only difference now is that fascist propaganda is 1000x more effective than the one of the 20th century, because of AI and social media manipulation (bots, paid influencers etc) and since they all have changed to party-dictatorial structures that favour individualism and appease the middle class (petit bourgeois) by concealing it with liberalist aesthetics.
Accurate analysis imo.
I strongly believe that there is no way of reform that actually makes this well.
BUT, as lenin and stalin rightfully stated, fighting for reforms to strengthen the working class is sometimes the only thing that can be done right now. It is a necessary step in the right direction. They pushed for the soviets in zarist russia which at the time was just a reform but it was a step in the revolution as well.
For example, people in the thousands have fought to keep chat control at bay. This alone wont save us but had we not done it, the power of the ruling class would increase even more.
To break it down: we cant try open battle as an unarmed working class against a militarized police force. They will murder us.
What we need to do is point out contradictions to the average citizen without defaulting to words like communism and stalin but by using class analysis anyway. Like what it means to have all your chat messages read and most likely sold in the process. Make people distrust the government and the bourgis. Help disarm the police, weaken the overwhelming power of the system by asking for small changes while still pursuing the grand plan.
This is the weak point. Organize in a party or union and spread class conciousness. People will start listening if your analysis keeps being right without you saying so. Use bold but accurate proclamations and repeat them. Repeat asking for a certain set of demands. In the past it was peace, land, bread and all power to the soviets. To day it might be “dont starve us” or “houses to those who live in them”. If you want revolution, you need to show that is is possible.
From there, they will join education circles if you promote them. Once they start reading socialist books, they’re mostly there. They might become trots or maoists but honestly that is still better than libs.
Btw. the ruling class wants you to think you cant change shit and that its all pointless. You need to resist that urge.
Dont have “hope”. Have “spite”. Pretend like its all for naught and you wont prevent anything but imagine you save 1000 people in the imagined nuclear catastrophe. Its not glorious but it is huge, compared to nobody. That way you dont take responsibility for things you cant change (govts ability to manipulate and peoples tendency to be manipulated for example). But that way you can keep going, stoically pursuing this small goal.
And if in the process you happen to form the next lenin in your ranks, you may just be the person who helped save the world.
TL;DR:
We need to keep the goals small enough for them to be achievable and big enough to have weight. Otherwise we will not do anything.