Really good writing and a timely history lesson. The working class is confused and divided right now but getting wiser by the day, I think and hope. First step is realizing and teaching of the power we hold. Onward
Excellent writing! I enjoyed this article. The system always seems to win in the end. Despite the bold protests and the flicker of hope for a better, more radical future, capitalism’s grip on society remains as strong as ever. It's so deeply entrenched. There's no way out.
As a Serbian person myself, with both pride and shame, I say that I've been regularly on the streets since 2017. Pride is there to remind me to always fight for what I believe in and shame because of the lack of development from any of these movements. But what I've seen in the past couple of months, as the students' protests flooded the country, is a good organization that even the president cannot fight because, although he mastered the tactics and the media, the students are still smarter, they are unpredictable. What I detest is the lack of response from the West, the claims to have had 'good and fruitful conversations with President Vucic' feels like a slap in the face. I am not now surprised by the rising of anti-EU opinions across the country, although I hate to see it. Hopefully, they will do something to increase the visibility of the protests and end the agony we have been going through for over a decade.
From the other side though, from me born in Czechoslovakia, being a kindergartener when the countries split, and when capitalism began on our previously socialist lands - we were EXCITED about capitalism! Suddenly there was, you know, choice of things to buy, places to go to (the Iron Curtain fell too), and some kind of possibility of accomplishing something, even if one is not from a family full of communists favoured by the party officials.
But, little did we know, that the neoliberalist extreme will be this extreme...now this is another form of oppression again, but without a state-sponsored apartment (but a 30 year long mortgage from a foreign-owned bank instead, hell yeah). 🥴
You wrote, "The Right invests in institutions, media, and power-building. The Left invests in reading groups and moral superiority. The Right, unfortunately, keeps winning." How are you defining Left and Right in this context? Because all modern institutions are globalist, elitist, anti-populist, anti-white, secular materialists, and they all push society socially toward more racial egalitarianism. The university system is very much that way, and university professors are almost universally "Democrat" voters.
Really good writing and a timely history lesson. The working class is confused and divided right now but getting wiser by the day, I think and hope. First step is realizing and teaching of the power we hold. Onward
Really good.
thank you!
Excellent writing! I enjoyed this article. The system always seems to win in the end. Despite the bold protests and the flicker of hope for a better, more radical future, capitalism’s grip on society remains as strong as ever. It's so deeply entrenched. There's no way out.
sadly, yeah. but at some point something has to give
As a Serbian person myself, with both pride and shame, I say that I've been regularly on the streets since 2017. Pride is there to remind me to always fight for what I believe in and shame because of the lack of development from any of these movements. But what I've seen in the past couple of months, as the students' protests flooded the country, is a good organization that even the president cannot fight because, although he mastered the tactics and the media, the students are still smarter, they are unpredictable. What I detest is the lack of response from the West, the claims to have had 'good and fruitful conversations with President Vucic' feels like a slap in the face. I am not now surprised by the rising of anti-EU opinions across the country, although I hate to see it. Hopefully, they will do something to increase the visibility of the protests and end the agony we have been going through for over a decade.
From the other side though, from me born in Czechoslovakia, being a kindergartener when the countries split, and when capitalism began on our previously socialist lands - we were EXCITED about capitalism! Suddenly there was, you know, choice of things to buy, places to go to (the Iron Curtain fell too), and some kind of possibility of accomplishing something, even if one is not from a family full of communists favoured by the party officials.
But, little did we know, that the neoliberalist extreme will be this extreme...now this is another form of oppression again, but without a state-sponsored apartment (but a 30 year long mortgage from a foreign-owned bank instead, hell yeah). 🥴
"A beach is easy to conquer. Capital just plops a luxury resort on it and moves on."
Perfectly said, as Trump promises an Israeli resort on Gaza.
The way Trump and Musk are dismantling our lives, no one will be able to afford any shiny shit and capitalism will not longer be used as a weapon.
You wrote, "The Right invests in institutions, media, and power-building. The Left invests in reading groups and moral superiority. The Right, unfortunately, keeps winning." How are you defining Left and Right in this context? Because all modern institutions are globalist, elitist, anti-populist, anti-white, secular materialists, and they all push society socially toward more racial egalitarianism. The university system is very much that way, and university professors are almost universally "Democrat" voters.
Rather, I agree with Robert Lewis Dabney, the chief of staff to Stonewall Jackson during the U.S. Civil War, who wrote in the 1890s that conservatives are pathetic and so-called "progressives" always win: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bce932c-c2b2-4ac0-a6f6-bd218d0c4edb_1244x1232.png
Fuck off you racist 🤡😤