First of all, I want to say that it’s wonderful to see all of you here, and your critical support of the nation I proudly call home. But more and more recently, especially reading through Chinese internet too, there has been a sense of overconfidence and overglorification of China. It is honestly a little worrying at times for me, because as much as I love my homeland and is proud of what we are doing, I know full and well that we are still a long way to go. I see this sentiment of China being the glorious land far away as a bastion and utopia against Western Imperialism and while there’s a lot of truth behind that sentiment, and I definitely understand why one not living in China would choose to believe this (I live in the US now and I understand your pain, fellow US comrades). I just want to remind everyone to exercise dialectal materialism on this subject and try to look at China in a less idealised way. We cannot grow to be better without recognising our mistakes. Anyways that is my little message to you all. Have a nice day!
I think we can do one better than that.
It’s imperative that we build parties, movements, and organizations that provide the people of the world not only with hope but also with inspiration. It has always been the imperative.
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”
— Gramsci
This is key. We can’t passively expect capitalism to collapse and socialist governments to follow; if anything, fascism will probably take place if we don’t seize the chance to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat when the capitalist state is at its most de-legitimized. If we don’t do massive amounts of agitprop and organize right now, it’s not gonna get any better soon.