I want to give up

[Comrade Jacob]

I just can't deal with all the clueless liberals, arrogant nu-atheists, dick-head rightists and just people who don't care. It really brings me down :(

I need some solidarity cos I just got out of hospital after getting of my detention against medical advice and am feeling disillusioned with the proletariat

[Comrade Jacob]

I don't know if this belongs in this section. Feel free to move it

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I don't think its a good idea to tie personal happiness to a movement that has consistently failed for 150 years. I hope you feel better, I'd be terrified to be put in a facility as well.

[Mr. Piccolo]

I don't think its a good idea to tie personal happiness to a movement that has consistently failed for 150 years. I hope you feel better, I'd be terrified to be put in a facility as well.

Yes, I agree. I am dismayed by the lack of solidarity among workers especially. But I try telling myself that this is the byproduct of having to claw down a living in a vicious system. It makes people hard and cold and selfish almost by necessity.

[Armchair Partisan]

I've been a lot less happy since I became a communist as well. Among other things, it's halfway killed my motivation to study. As they say, ignorance is bliss. Just remember: massive social changes can happen in the span of 10 years from nothing, so if nothing else, there's always the chance that things will suddenly get a lot better.

[Q]

When I was in the CWI I had an increasing weariness about the future. I was at one point doing parttime work (not quite fulltime, but putting in some serious hours) that was unpaid as the group was simply too small for that. As time went by and nothing seemed to move at all, I was increasingly questioning my commitment to this whole project. Seeing as the CWI is quite 'hyperactivist', you get burned by this quite easily if you're not surrounded by comrades who think like you and have at least marginal or imagined progress. This is why the CWI publications are always about this amazing strike here or that super demonstration there or how well we broke the fighting fund target again... This kind of official optimism is essential to keep the group going on with what is mostly useless activism. Useless as it mostly didn't achieve anything.

How I fixed this for myself is by re-evaluating my politics and what kind of road would be worthwhile for me to invest my time, energy and effort in for the rest of my life. This in turn led me away from hyperactivist ways of organisation and from Trotskyism in general.

So, if you're bummed by the endless stream of capitalist society around you. What kind of strategy could you commit yourself to for the next, say, 50 years? What would actually enrich your life?

[mushroompizza]

Hey I'm starting a youth rights club at school next year if that cheers you up. :grin:

[Frid]

I went from being sad, to being disillusioned, to being a realist. Sure if you look at the proletariat right now, it is a bunch of cowards, bowing to bourgeois values, with respect!! That's why I don't believe in any kind of controlled "ideological" movement. People will just explode sometime and tear down the state(s)

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

You probs need to get a tight crew.
I suggest posting adds on telephone poles: "Communist youth needs tight crew to roll with; provide emotional support. Able to make coffee, roll fatties, and carry out assigned tasks to build the party. Please contact [email protected]"

[Ele'ill]

i got burnt out during union stuff recently and just stopped because I was one of 2 others doing things that were working, some others felt that what we were doing was too antagonistic and that hanging on by a thread while doing nothing was a better decision. Now I go to the gym before work, go to work mainly for the calorie burn/exercise, come back to my place and smoke lots of pot and watch movies/play video games. With my time off I am going traveling again with a friend(s) and will probably be homeless again but happier.

There is no working class this is global civil war (inbetween smoking pot/games, rough life)