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Mao had stuff to say about this. Keep in mind he was commanding a commie military most of the time. He would periodically write recommendations on why X and Y habits were liberal or revolutionary that were essentially just life advice and how to work together effectively.

A fascist worked out today, did you?

working out, like basically every other hobby, has nothing to do with marxism

Zhou Enlai's Guidelines for Myself:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhou-enlai/1943/03/18.htm

Perhaps look for guerrilla warfare manuals written by communists. Probably has advice on staying fit as asymmetric warfare requires quick movements

There's this big muscley comrade on tiktok who posts workout propaganda. can't remember his handle

a study of physical education

responding to immediate external threats is not discipline. being forced to follow the capitalist's routine is miserable, trying to impose one upon myself is similarly awful I just don't also become homeless if I can't make myself go to the gym or eat less than 2400 kcal in a day.

If you work out marxistically you'll be hungry and then you can eat beans.

Working out, making your own food, ect. is the only time in our lives under capitalism we get to enjoy the full fruits of our labor without thievery

something along the lines of theory/ logical thinking that would state how required it was to work out and develop discipline

The "develop discipline" part is pretty direct: there's a lot of work to be done to get from here to communism, and it won't get done absent a certain level of discipline. Developing some kind of discipline is simply a prerequisite to getting big things done.

Working out is much more tangential, but it can be a good way to develop that discipline. It's also healthy for you on an individual level, which can only help you contribute more to whatever leftist project you envision.

Discipline applied by the bourgeoisie is ultimately just coerced self-discipline. We see a natural instinct to instill it in school children, and part of the purpose of grading a student is to rate them on a rubric of self-discipline (under capitalism). By the time most of us are finished with school, we've developed our own inner capitalist that tells us how to behave.

And that's taxing! Having to moderate your impuse to tell a karen to fuck off, or to leave work early exhausts us, and makes it that much more difficult to self-regulate in other areas of our lives. Constant advertisements throughout the day take advantage of this as well.

I hear people call American Leftists lazy all the time and it drives me nuts because we're mostly working class, and the US working class works more hours than anyone not specifically being colonized.

We're not lazy, we're tired, by design.

That said, if our forebears from the 1900s could find time to agitate during 16 hour workdays, we can too.

Marx telling me to clean my room

pls someone help unlock this article

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40871517

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKx8xE8jJZs&t=25s