u/whiteowl76

I'm having trouble figuring out what definition would fit my views on the world and politics. I believe that the conditions and contradictions of capitalism will bring about it's demise. I believe that the American empire as it exists will fall through the aforementioned crises of capitalism and domestic oppression. I do not believe it will be a revolution in the way of storming the whitehouse with guns but that the revolution must be based on mutual aid and community strength in mitigating the collapse of empire. I also believe though that a government and "order" will and should naturally reform and that government must be a force that serves the people, defends the people, ensures distribution of goods, and maintaining foreign relations. I consider myself an Anarcho Communist currently as I appreciate the ideas of Marx and Lenin but I don't see the revolution as they describe it as realistic in any way in the modern day let alone the US but I also don't see a truly anarchist society being viable in the long term

please remove if not allowed here but I have been sitting with this question for around a month. The largest left organizing group in my area is the DSA, which I have been working within for just over 2 years. I have never been in love with their strategy as I consider myself a Marxist and I do not love their subservience to the Democratic party and sole focus on electoralism to attempt reform of capitalism rather than building an effective workers party and promoting the need for revolution

that said, my local chapter is more heavily marxist than the broad national group, which is good, but it dampens our ability to teach socialism in a correct lens through our poli ed working group.

I have begun looking into and attending meetings of other groups in my area but they are either: consisting of like 12 total members, tremendously annoying/edgy dorks, or both.

I am struggling to find a place or decision on whether to stay with a revisionist reformist group who actually has numbers and motion albeit in a direction I find largely unproductive or a small but actually Marxist group who aren't organizing effectively.

in the modern world with complex networks of global communication, relations and trade where so many of the things we need and use in daily life are manufactured overseas, how would anarchism function in a huge, non homogeneous country like the US? how would global relations be facilitated? not to say i love politicians and diplomats but how would international trade and relations with non anarchist societies be handled? obviously the goal is a classless world without borders but if anarchy is able to gain a foothold in one place before others how would they keep things going?

Fuck you. I hate this line of thinking and saying that you just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps and work hard and you'll get ahead. I have done everything "right" and "what you're supposed to do" I'm 27 years old, I have held a job consistently since I was 15, worked my ass off to put myself through college with as little debt as I possibly could, I managed to move out on my own at 19, I have a full time job in my degree field (environmental sciences) and none of that changes the fact that I don't get paid enough and the cost of living in my area has almost doubled in the last 6 years alone but I can't afford to leave. I can't afford to stay working where I do but everything in my job field is either LTE or pays nothing, not to mention the precarious nature of federal jobs in it. My choice is either to struggle on and hope to eventually land something decently paid or go back to school, put myself in more debt and still have no guarantee of finding anything in that new field. I pulled myself by the bootstraps while the ladder is being pulled up above my generation, and then older people criticize us like it's some moral failure that we aren't getting ahead and brag about how they were able to make it on so much less of a wage. It's fucking infuriating and I despise how Gen Z and Millennials are looked down upon for being thrown to the wolves and expected to thrive.