u/Gold-Fool84

This isn't even capitalism anymore, its an oligarchy slowly shifting towards a neo-feudalism.

I posted before on how a straight consultant was buttering me up at my job, and who I find very attractive. Since then, I've also confirmed he's straight after he posted a status on WhatsApp about his lovely wife and kids.

It turns out he was trying to charm my boss too, who is a woman, talking about how he wasnts to work under her and close his consultancy. So much for that spontaneous job offer he gave me.

He wants to take over our client completely, and he's using me to prolong the work to also charge more. He's been giving me instructions which conflicts with my boss and client, but I luckily do have a good relationship with my boss because I am indeed a good employee. So I've been sending her screenshots of conversations with him to her. Now I just need to wait.

He is just a typical schmoozer and I nearly fell for it like the stupid thirtsy dog I am. I should have known, in any case I doubt I stood a chance even if he was gay.

In times of crisis, people gravitate toward movements that promise certainty, direction, and a clear telos. Fascism thrives precisely because it rallies the masses with simple, emotive narratives that are adaptable yet imbued with a sense of destiny. By contrast, social democracy, having rejected a predetermined end goal, risks appearing as endless tinkering without vision.

Modern social democracy emerged from the revisionist writings of Eduard Bernstein, who challenged Marxian theory by pointing to the broadening distribution of wealth as a contradiction to Marx’s predictions of concentration. To resolve this, Bernstein argued that socialism must abandon the end goal of communism. Socialism would thus become a continuous reformative exercise rather than Marx’s historical progression toward a more perfect society.

This rejection of telos is a critical failure when social democracy is pitted against fascism in times of crisis. Fascism’s ability to mobilize comes from its certainty and mythic simplicity, while social democracy’s pragmatism leaves it vulnerable. In stable times, social democracy can thrive; in crises, its lack of destiny makes it fragile. This fragility was evident after the 1990s, particularly in Tony Blair’s “Third Way,” which relied on continuous economic growth rather than genuine redistribution of capital. When the 2008 financial crisis struck, the public pivoted conservative, and confidence in socialist economics collapsed. The era of social democracy we inhabit today amounts to a capitulation to right‑wing ideology, symbolized, for example, by English Labour’s revision of Clause IV in the 1990s.

Meanwhile, capitalism’s telos has never been abandoned: the relentless accumulation of capital. This dynamic now erodes liberal democracy itself, transforming the United States into a plutocracy. In times of crisis, people do not turn to hollow social democracy, which offers no telos, no destiny, no clear answer. Instead, they fraternize with fascist ideas; ideas that ultimately serve capitalism’s end goal.

Fascism’s weakness is also its greatest strength: it has no unified theory. It bleeds into societies through resentment, discontent, and disharmony, contorting culture, religion, and national pride into monstrosities. Even Stalin recognized this danger, insisting through socialist realism that Marxian theory must provide a unified socialist culture to prevent such infiltration. Fascism is a horrific and nefarious evil. Capitalists do not care about its ends, so long as it serves theirs. This makes capitalism itself the epitome of evil, for the ends of fascism, and therefore capitalism, are the destruction of humanity.

History shows us that socialism is the path to freedom from this descent into hell. The warnings of Marx, Lenin, and even Stalin ring truer than ever. There can be no compromise with fascists.

My office has been working with an external consultant to assist with a sensitive client. The gentleman is very attractive with great eyes and a smile. When I first saw him my heart fluttered. But I keep everything professional as I assume he is straight.

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However, he compliments my work constantly and privately invited me to join him at his consultancy, in a very direct and unexpected way. I turned him down because Im doing great where I am. He treats me differently from other employees at my office, even messaging me on my personal number which he persuaded my boss to get.

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He is a smart man, I fear he senses that Im gay and is manipulating me with this charming behaviour, although I can't really identify a motive other than to use me to finalise this project as quickly as possible. I am kind of caving into his charm.

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Now I wonder, how do I push back on this? Should I even push back or should I just endure this until he's done and leaves?

There's bound to be guys youre more or less attracted to, and also not at all attracted to. This obviously cuts both ways.

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But in that case how do you manage rejection in a group setting without making the whole thing seem awkward? Aren't there times where you signal to someone you're not interested in them, but they continue advances? What happens then?