"In the final analysis, the economic development of the United States and the need of its workers to maintain their standard of living means that our struggle for national liberation is not waged against a given social regime, but rather against the whole nation... Let us prepare, then, to fight against the entire people of the United States, for the fruit of victory will be not only economic liberation and social equality, but the acquisition of a new and very welcome younger brother: the proletariat of that country." - Che Guevara

You are correct in your analysis that the West is parasitic, and that its people are complicit, but it is ridiculously hyperbolic to say that westerners "shouldn't be kept around" after the revolution. Is this pessimistic exaggeration or are you seriously proposing we commit a mass genocide against the West? It's ridiculous.

We are not guilty of the sins of our fathers and grandfathers. We did not choose to be born in the West. I god damn well know I did not choose to be born in this fucking hellscape we call Florida. The people of the West are a product of their material conditions. No matter how caustic, twisted, and vile their opinions may be—you change the conditions and you change the rules of engagement for the Western people.

There will come a time in the future where even the treatlerite Westerners will give up their treats—or rather, lose access to their treats—and become properly proletarianized. There will be a day in the future where, over the ashes of the United States of America, and of the European Union, and of every hegemonic imperialist to ever exist, a new people will be born—a Western people forged and tempered in an era of scientific socialism instead of bathed in endless YouTube videos, plastic toys, porn, and addictive poisons they call foods. A Western people willing to take part in the emancipation of the international proletariat, and willing to move the wheel of history forward yet another revolution. No matter how impossible it may seem today, this will happen. Some day.

Socialism will win.

In the meantime, downtrodden Western comrade, we must struggle on! We struggle from within the belly of the beast! Perhaps the most significant of all struggles! The struggle is here, at our very doorstep! We must take every opportunity we can—we must allow this struggle to consume us! For every sin that this empire has committed—for every sin that this empire has forced us to commit—we must strike back a thousand fold! It is we who will make the change here, and it is only we who can end this empire of evil.

The way I see it, us western Marxist-Leninists have three choices:

1. Despair. Give up. Be complacent. Make deranged claims like those you made right here, in this post. Ideate and fetishize your ineptitude and allow yourself to succumb to the empire. Simply await whatever may happen to you, and hope the third world comes to save you.

2. Hope. Struggle. Fight on right here, right now. Organize your community and play your part in breaking the back of colonialism.

3. If you really cannot take it, and you have the means. If your spirit is broken and the dangers crush you from within, then do this. Learn every skill this empire can give you. Take its knowledge, its investment, and its training, and then pick up and move before you allow this economy to recoup its investment in you. Move to China, Vietnam, Laos, hell, even Russia or Iran. Wherever you can go. Take part in building up the axis of resistance, in defending the third world from the West. Depending on where you go, you may even help in building socialism across the seas. Fight back against the empire from outside of it.

Steel yourself, comrade. We have a world to win.