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Ever feel like you should be living your beliefs a bit more? Join a union, organise a protest, write a pamphlet? Start a reading group to discuss your pamphlet? The possibilities are endless.
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SOCIALISE THE INVENTORY -- ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR THE WORKING CLASS!
It took actual workers many hours to get this to work.
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I should reconsider my theory of change.
That's even more principled of you.
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That all sounds like a lot of work.
Writing pamphlets isn't that much work.
What if I seized something? I feel like I should seize something.
How about the stuff you already own? Just owning seems wrong, bourgeois even. You've seized this stuff in the name of the people.
Will this alter my socio-economic reality in any way?
Not even a little bit! It achieves nothing! But looking at all of your things might make you feel really revolutionary.
Give it a rest, Hersh. No one wants to hear that stuff anymore.
What stuff?
All these radical statements you keep making. Do you even know what year it is?
Remind me, what year is it?
It's 96, they tore up the calendars ninety-six years ago. It's been a shit century for leftwing theories of change, but a real golden age for bombastic nonsense.
How about you actually do something.
Radical statements are something.
No, they're not.
You dimly recall reading that communism is supposed to be a system of production, a way to order and recreate the material basis of reality. All you're doing is inflicting statements on people.
Awkward imagery. Agglutinated constructions. The rhetorical mode of the age.
REACTIONARY PESSIMISM. THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR STRONG STATEMENTS TO REPEAT ENDLESSLY.
Lasting material change is impossible; the production of statements is our final recourse.
Alright, fine. Doesn't matter whether you know what that means or not, you're just going with it. Good.
PURGE THE SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, IMMOLATE THE LIBERAL.
They're purged, Hersh. Burnt to a cinder. All because you said that just now.
What else is there to be done?
I'm going for the moral victory condition. This is what it looks like.
What's wrong with radical statements?
BOMBARD THE NAYSAYER, REJECT SO-CALLED 'REALISM'.