When you think "Is it all worth it?"...

Thrashing_chomsky
Posts: 153 Joined: 03-06-07 Location: Leeds
Submitted by Thrashing_chomsky on 8 November, 2007 - 14:59.

What do you do/think of/read to up your hopes in Anarchism when the world around you seems stuck on unthinking unrepentant self-rape with statism and it seems that its too late to turn people on?

Im having a low-point in esteem for other people right now and could do with a boost.

lem "feel free to check my edits :)"
Posts: 2778 Joined: 25-07-05 Location: Oxfordshire/Leeds
8 November, 2007 - 15:01

i think of anarchist saints and mujeres libres smile

that and that life would be missing the point otherwise wink you know when i'm tired out from all my activism.

Dust
Posts: 91 Joined: 06-02-06 Location: Dublin, Ireland
8 November, 2007 - 15:19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR7dNntU5oI

or do pills.

lem "feel free to check my edits :)"
Posts: 2778 Joined: 25-07-05 Location: Oxfordshire/Leeds
8 November, 2007 - 15:27
Dust wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR7dNntU5oI

jesus i bet none of you sound as cool as him when you say "anarchism" sad

Thrashing_chomsky
Posts: 153 Joined: 03-06-07 Location: Leeds
8 November, 2007 - 15:33

Old anarchists rule, they're like what 100-yearolds with cigarettes and red meat suppers are to chainsmoking junkfood freaks... something to feel cool about turning into smile

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7302 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
8 November, 2007 - 15:36

The alienating aspects of capitalism always push me back into this no matter how alienated I get with anarchists. We might never win, but to bow your head and chew the cud at this stage would be soul destroying.

little_brother "Land of Snott"
Posts: 536 Joined: 30-01-06 Location: Midlands
8 November, 2007 - 16:41

This may help...
http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=1622
If not, sorry.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7302 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
8 November, 2007 - 19:47

Take solace in the failure of other revolutionary groups?

Alan "Getting drunk, playing punk on a stylophone"
Posts: 5138 Joined: 28-09-04 Location: SE4
8 November, 2007 - 19:56

Get drunk. I burn out on average twice a day.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7302 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
8 November, 2007 - 19:59
Alan wrote:
Get drunk. I burn out on average twice a day.

Imagine what it would be like if you actually became a revolutionary...

wink

magnifico "rehabilitating"
Posts: 1331 Joined: 29-11-05 Location: Rasalhague
8 November, 2007 - 21:01
guydebordisdead wrote:
The alienating aspects of capitalism always push me back into this no matter how alienated I get with anarchists. We might never win, but to bow your head and chew the cud at this stage would be soul destroying.

Word

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 10024 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
8 November, 2007 - 21:06

Don't place your hopes on Anarchism.

oisleep
Posts: 2825 Joined: 20-04-05
8 November, 2007 - 21:58

well said comrade

jack white
Posts: 334 Joined: 07-04-05 Location: Dublin, Ireland
8 November, 2007 - 22:02
Dust wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR7dNntU5oI

or do pills.

thats fantastic

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
Posts: 9938 Joined: 09-02-06 Location: razorblade of apathy, shave me with your irony
8 November, 2007 - 22:07

I agree with GDID. I should be able to thrive under this system but I don't and what it offers me doesn't make me happy. I accept that anarchism/communism is unlikely to happen, but I don't really see a choice than to work towards it.

sam sanchez
Posts: 451 Joined: 08-09-05
9 November, 2007 - 00:23

I am feeling like this too. Just been reading a story written in the 1930s where on eof the characters is talking about poverty, and saying "don't worry, it'lkl be alright when the revolution comes." 70 years later we are no closer.

Tacks "in it to win it"
Posts: 4723 Joined: 08-11-05
9 November, 2007 - 10:18

guy is just on FIRE on this here thread today.

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
9 November, 2007 - 21:46

Btw that entire Jewish anarchist film is worth seeing...

Of course things are dispiriting..

But for as long as even one person keeps that revolutionary flame alive within them then there is hope - remember my very first tagline - "Let It Begin With Me". cool

Love

LW XX

Alan "Getting drunk, playing punk on a stylophone"
Posts: 5138 Joined: 28-09-04 Location: SE4
9 November, 2007 - 21:53
guydebordisdead wrote:
Alan wrote:
Get drunk. I burn out on average twice a day.

Imagine what it would be like if you actually became a revolutionary...

wink

I would diss WSM but then JoeBlack would show up to whinge about something in a minute before defending the small penis nationalism of Pol Pot and Johnny Adair.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17816 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
9 November, 2007 - 21:54

i thought this thread was about when you've just finished the second wank of the day and missed your train...