I will be the best damn fry cook a revolutionary movement has ever seen.

I'm a software engineer so naturally I think it'd be fucking awesome to work on something like Project Cybersyn.

I want to write ecological theory tackling the separation of town and country/metabolic rift in the context of left urbanism. Right now I'm still building that observational understanding of the issues, but I'm keen to make a concrete plan for what a radical green city means and how that's integrated into wider rural/natural systems. Beyond that, I just want to homestead and give the surplus to an ML org doing mutual aid.

I have the privilege of working with marginalized folks so I am trying to slide material class conscious seeds into the communication I have with them as much as I can without losing my position. I have sadly noticed that for example poor folk have often fully internalized the all consuming neoliberal self-loathing and individualization that we live in and truly think it is them who are the problem. I want to at least raise class consciousness, to contribute to deprogramming people around me and if nothing else, make someone see the systemic issue rather than blaming themselves or othe proles. I have no idea if this matters or not, but I have hope it does.

I have a kid who honestly has a fairly low chance of "making it" with adhd in this shitty system. I also consider climate change to be a non-debatable justification for getting rid of capitalism so I think I would be willing to go all the way to whatever the situation demands of me, because I can't think of anything better to spend or lose my life on than making this change happen.

I know I really struggle to exist with awareness of all the unnecessary war, violence and plunder that we seemingly can't do anything about. I would rather do somerhing than not. I don't consider my individual life that important that I couldn't trade it for a better timeline for future generations.

If I can move the theoretical understanding of a heap of people, that would be nice. I don't think we're at the active revolution stage yet.

Bus driver or high-speed train conductor

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I think with sufficient investigation and theory-studying, I could come up with a decent Marxist analysis of White Evangelical Christianity in the US. I think I’ve identified the principal contradiction in it. I think I’m seeing how it can barely be considered a “religion” and instead it exists to reinforce settler colonialism, white supremacy, and reaction. Just need to put it all together.

And I fully admit none of this really gets us closer to revolution. This analysis would be less valuable than more effective on-the-ground organizing. But this is a topic that I think about a lot and have an interest in, and applying Marxism to it help me work through my own issues with White Evangelical Christianity.

I just want to be part of a massive communist party

But, who is THE Marxist Leninist?

Unrealistically, but Left Unity. I don't know how I am gonna go about it but I'm gonna fucking do it and I'm taking all of you down with me in the process.

Not sure if it's petty boug of me to hope to contribute software in a way that materially supports revolution. I don't know how it'll be yet, but something like helping people communicate peer to peer securely over local networks in case they don't trust/can't use the global internet. I think Yggdrasil, Matrix (especially research into pinecone), Lemmy, ProleWiki etc are good examples of doing grunt work which sets foundations for when a revolutionary moment comes along

I don't really have good people skills or tech knowledge, so being a forward facing communications person or logistics/systems person for cybernetics type stuff is off the table as fascinating as I found General Intellect Unit

I'm interested in ecology and botany and would love to be part of some kind of People's Bioremediation Corps, like a big full employment centrally planned effort to do rewilding, pollution cleanup, forest management and fire prevention, etc. As climate crisis worsens and accelerates, it's gonna require something like a full mobilization and expansion of our productive forces to get emissions to zero and start scaling carbon capture and plan for weathering extreme droughts, floods, storms and so on to maintain agriculture and prevent famines, and I think that'd be a really important thing to be a part of that I could feel proud of.

Leftist Skynet.

Cybernetics, space science, and nuclear power. Red electrons, red rockets, red atoms.

Hopefully, a dedicated revolutionary, though for now that's a far-off goal. For now, reading theory is my primary method of engaging with leftism, though I look forward to the day I can put that theory into practice beyond analysis.

My chosen area of struggle is ecology and food justice, and I just want to contribute something to have a better, more conscious way of feeding ourselves and what's around us. I want to homestead, cook for people, read ecological philosophy and maybe by accident write/say something that could help heal our broken food system by connecting with the world and each other using our taste.

I will be a slave to capital until I am released from this mortal coil

Idk honestly. I used to be out there organizing all the time, and it gave me a big sense of purpose. Back then I probably would have had a good answer for you. But then I got arrested, saw the inside of a jail cell, have to deal with the legal fallout, and now my anxiety is so bad that when I'm not at work I just hide at home. A better world will take so much more than getting arrested. Sometimes I'm not sure I'm strong enough for the fight.

Meat shield for people smarter than me

i want to be a forced worker in a gulag

I hope to synthesize my own religious interests with Marxist theory in a way that is respectful of both.

Right now this is just head canon but I have a very extensive idea regarding the compatibility of Marxism and Pure Land Buddhism, which is the largest sect in the world, with most adherents in China.

Chanting gives people a collective voice and power during times of both victory and protest, and its the primary practice in Pure Land. However, most Pure Landers chant in the hopes to "orient their mind to the pure land", meaning that's where their mindstream goes when they die. Then they get to hear the Buddha's teachings emanating from the very environment and live in a lotus flower, etc. They essentially go to a pocket dimension more conducive to Buddhist practice without the strife of daily life, but it's also temporary and they have to put the work in.

There's a relatively niche idea that we're already in Shakyamuni's Pure Land. Or a less niche idea that there exists a Pure Land not as a physical place, but as something thst touches all of existence. I think chanting can be seen as orienting one's mind toward a better (socialist) society and restoration/maintenance/establishment of that Pure Land on Earth. A place that allows people more freedom to, in a Buddhist sense, practice the dharma wholeheartedly. In many ways by doing things one ought to do in a just society already, by providing for the needs of others without a perverse profit motive.

It's a constant affirmation of one's dedication to improving the lives of others and viewing even ones enemies with compassion (which isn't synonymous with tolerating them, but recognizing the root causes of their actions).

Buddhists have been revolutionaries in many cases, and several AES countries have some of the highest traditional concentratrations of Buddhism, yet Buddhists and socialists have also not always been friends. I want to acknowledge and bridge that gap, deal with contradictions (non-violence vs. revolutionary thought), and explore a Marxist-Buddhist synthesis I don't feel has been strongly attempted at the theoretical level. Only in a historical sense, and often by orientalist European thinkers who had no firsthand experience with Buddhism or access to the variety of texts we have today.

First [we must transform] society, then [we must transform] ourselves. Socialists are the bodhisattvas of our time seeking the betterment of humanity through wisdom (theory), collective perseverence, and self-sacrifice. Once the people are free, only then can we attain nirvana.

I'd like to get Philipp Mainlander-style Marxist pessimism as the dominant strain of political thought on the planet. I'm achieving this by playing through Elden Ring and limply lying around on the floor like how Maria does on the Silent Hill 2 OST cover.