I'm not even worried about their weapons. I'm worried they've successfully convinced some of the smartest, most clever psychologists in the world that they would do much better at using their knowledge of the human mind to exploit the proletariat than actually help individuals. I'm worried that they have enough "ownership" of resources that they'll be able to convince and hire small armies to protect those resources for them in the coming climate apocalypse. I'm more worried about the surveillance state, The Fourteen Eyes, and "pre-crime" ideas flowing into snuffing out revolutionaries before they can become revolutionary.

The weapons have never made a difference, almost all throughout history the bourgeois has had access to better, more complicated weaponry than the average citizen. The things that make a difference are the psychologists producing more effective propaganda than ever, the continued growth of important resources in fewer hands, and a surveillance state aimed at preventing revolutionary thought from happening at all. Weapons don't kill ideas, propaganda, surveillance and control of resources do.

So, I know this is going to sound very LARPy on an internet board, but I don't care about dying for a socialist cause all that much. At least it would've been worth it. I don't want to, but the more I study theory and (socialist) history, the more I realize it is very much an option.

I don't expect anyone to feel this way. It's just that I have made peace with this thought. I would have at least stood for something in my life.

Have you been following the effectiveness of such weapons against old soviet technology, and newer Russian versions, in Ukraine?

Materialistically, the US never succeeded in their stated war goals. Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan. And those are all much smaller than the US.

Their relatively effective weapons are money and propaganda, to seed dissent in countries leaning left and finance their local militaries to do the dirty work to their population, get them rich, and in control, an scoop out natural resources.

Apparently, that's changing too. Because of the proletarian intellectual and material resistance. Our role to play is to study history, and counter propaganda around us.

People want to be convinced, out of the interwebz. Nobody is happy with the right wing or liberal narrative. Our materialistic approach is tangible, sensible. We need to master it, learn to make parallels to what people around us like, and guide them through the noise of propaganda. In person. There's no point of knowing all we know and being stuck at home, talking to no one.

Go outside and talk to people. :)

A bit. But not really. We are part of the collective, the mass of the world's workers. Our fate and that of the working class is the same. Whatever happens, either my comrades will stand with me and I with them or we're all fucked, anyway.

There's no greater human force than unified thought and action. Once you see yourself as part of the collective, there is a lot less room for fear. Either we all get free or we'll all be killed and whittled down individually in one way or another, anyway. There's no option where the bad things don't happen. Only some control over which ones and how we respond.

For the fear that remains, I try not to think about it. Whatever happens to me, they will never stop history. Marxism takes away much of the fear. It's no coincidence that the bourgeoisie don't want you to read Marx and don't want a united working class.

I was more scared before, when I thought changing the world meant sticking my neck out on its own. When I thought I'd have to be the main character if I wanted to change the world. Now I trust the working class will do it whether I like it or not. The only choice is to work with it or get in it's way—and that one's easy.

As for those who came before. They were titans. They didn't so much fail as they failed to achieve everything all in one go.

Our earliest comrades basically had to start from scratch. Few examples, no theory, insufficient lessons to learn from. Still, their mistakes we're not in vain. They achieved so much.

They stopped the Nazis, ended colonialism, brought about the concepts of: the welfare state, paid time off, redundancy pay, weekends, limited working hours, universal suffrage, universal healthcare, universal education, universal housing, universal jobs, universal dignity. Before the unions, socialists, communists organised to fight back against the ruling class, these things didn't exist. That's a legacy to be proud of and we join the legacy by joining them.

However bleak the world is, however unevenly spread are the fruits, the world still reaps the benefits of what previous comrades fought for. It's not done until it's done and unfortunately it can't all be won in a lifetime. Luckiky, this all started a few lifetimes ago so we might be able to win what's left to be won within ours.

On the one hand if we must try and fail so the next generation will succeed, then that's our lot. At the same time, with climate change and China's rise, we (a) don't have the option of failing and (b) are already winning. The communist states, being dictatorships of the proletariat, are us and we are them. The fight is half won already.

So many of our comrades in the past did though. Who would have thought in 1917 that we’d have the USSR or today’s AES states?