Controlling Revolutionary Anger

[FireFry]

The large internal problem today within revolutions is anger. We all want capitalism to end, all of us revolutionaries. We all want to stand up and tell them to screw off or else.

But, internally, within ourselves, our aims are typically the same as one another's. :cool: That's where that element of comradery lends it's hand. The in-fighting withing the left works against ending capitalism.

Now, capitalism is the most advanced society we have. Why? Production, that's why. With capitalism, we are now capable of producing more than we were ever able to produce before. Are any of you aware of how much food we can now produce that goes to waste simply because it cannot be sold.

We have more available now, with farming machinery, than ever before. And that is what capitalism has introduced : large scale production.

Now, what about us anarchist-communists? We believe that freedom should not be spent in one single dime, on one day, in one revolution. But really, freedom is a state of mind, where personal struggles and woes don't exist. All things are always personal, and denying that, it pushes these issues under the water where it just bobs up somewhere else in our mind unexpectedly.

I guess what I'm saying is that, well, we shouldn't be communists because our bosses aren't paying enough, but that we should be anarchist comrades and communists simply because we have bosses.

And that when communism arrives, it should come naturally to that specific generation of people whom it was borne to. In 20, 50, 70, 200 years, it doesn't matter.

In many ways, communism is just another ace in our deck against authority. Speaking of which, it would be pretty fun to see a communist playing card deck. Hehehe. Marx could be the king, lenin could be the queen.

[Dyslexia! Well I Never!]

In my opinion communism (as per Marx and Engels) is a process of socio-economic inevitibility.

The revolution which many crave rabidly for will be the product of a enormous chain of smaller reforms pushed for by those who would be revolutionaries that started decades ago that will over the long term improve conditions, gradually making a fairer state.

The revolution is cultural, when one day we wake up and realise we're there, that the Marxist utopia has occured.

When this happens, be it in 10 or 10,000 years it will be worth it.

The function of revolutionaries is to nurse this process along by fighting the injustices of the current system, gradually applying the pressure that will change the world like the technique by which one curves a bar of steel.

Sudden revolutionary changes are uncontrolled, as such they are usually flawed and must be imposed with great force, like a car crash. In the long term they cause damage rather than positive change.

It isn't so much a question of controlling revolutionary anger by repressing it as it is remembering why you are angry. Flawed changes make flawed systems these are in turn the cause of revolutionary anger.

One must remember to consider the consequences of bringing about institutional change even as they enact it.