What do you mean by Eastern Front exactly?

That’s true. A forseeable future can only be deduced what we have already seen, and as we have not seen such a society yet, and have no data on it, who’s to say?

It’s not even about foresight per se. It’s about a very simple question. Let’s assume taht we even are in the primary stages of socialism, which means some vestiges of capitalism are still residing in all of us, and as such, also crime. What do you do with criminals, thiefs, etc.? Reeducation through labour of course, or in other words - prison. Only when the material and superstructural causes for crime to be commited are gone, and as such, crime withers away, only then can prisons be done away with. So don’t hit me with “future is less forseeable” as if it were some mystical thing, instead of a question that can be worked out scientifically/logically.

Prison abolition is not viable in the forseeable future.

I am just worried that it is a change of social relations that cannot be “rolled back” without another violent revolution.

Umm what? Do you thunk that decollectivizing agriculture and reintroducing markets and labour-as-commodity is a step TOWARDS socialism? The productive forces have been expanded enormously but when do we start seeing the class distinctions being abolished onstead of bolstered year-on-year?

I’m not really qualified for such recommendations so I can’t help you much but maybe books or videos by Kit Laughlin would be of help? He is the best expert on stretching that I know about.

I’m not exactly sure what you need by “stretching for walking and work”?

I always reccomend this routine for people who want to get into running:

We run 3 times a week with a day of rest after running. Always start with a warmup stretch and a slow run to warmup for 5-7 minutes then:

1st week: 3x 5mins run at full capacity 5 mins walk; 3x 5mins run 3 mins walk; 3x 5min run 1min walk;

2nd week; 3x 7mins run 5mins walk; 3x7/3; 3x7/1

3rd week; 3x10/5, 3x10/3; 3x10/1

Congratulations, you can now run at a slow pace non-stop! From now do a 1-1,5hr run once a week and 30-50minutes run 2-3 times a week. Focus on slowly improving your speed. That’s it!

Edgy “Stirnerite” (due to vibes) at 16, left-wing fascist sympathizer at 18-19 (due to environment), typical socdem till 23, Marxist-Leninist at 24 and going. To be honest my radicalization came from watching a theatre performance that said “mortgaged credit = 30 years of serfdom” and then joining a local communist org.

I don’t know about the event itself, but In Defense of Marxism is a well-known Trotskyist site (sometimes tinging on reformist side). plus the domain is marxist.com(mercial)

Richard Wolff is a reformist and not a reliable source.

I highly reccomend reading both together as this book contains Lenin’s notes on that particular book :)

Science of Logic by Hegel alongside Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks

Stop romanticizing your despair. You are not a martyr, and you are not ‘evil’, that framing is a convenient escape hatch. Calling yourself scum lets you off the hook because it declares you irredeemable before you’ve even tried. That isn’t humility, it’s narcissistic fatalism. The global oppressed don’t care about your American guilt complex, they care about whether you’re useful.

‘No organizing potential?’ That’s lazy defeatism dressed up as realism. The US has millions of exploited workers, tenants facing eviction, and queer kids losing rights. The potential is there, buried under the same rubble you’re too tired to lift. Did you expect the masses to deliver themselves to your doorstep? The vanguard isn’t handed out, it’s forged in the exact exhaustion you’re feeling right now. If you can’t do grand strategy, do logistics. If you can’t do logistics, do mutual aid. If you can’t do that, then your only job today is to survive and show up tomorrow. That is a tactical order, not a request.

I am not going to coddle you. But I will tell you a hard truth: checking out is the ruling class’s favorite outcome for radical Americans. They want you dead or paralyzed. Staying alive and doing one tedious, miserable task today is an act of war against them. So stop spiraling about your inherent evil, that is a bourgeois luxury problem, and start thinking about your next tactical move. Eat a meal. Make a help-line call. Send an email to them. Just don’t confuse self-pity with political analysis. Get up. Not for the party not the cause, but because lying down is exactly what the Empire wants you to do.

This is not the message of my comment.

Then you take care of the particular (the problem stopping you from action) before the universal (the action). Get medicated, find support networks, call helplines as much as you can, journal, and remember that material conditions predecede any form of conciousness - so you will not get better if you don’t get up. Set up the smallest goals. Do not think about achieveing them. Instead of “getting better” think of what personal material conditions you can change, so you are better. Remember Marx from the 18th Brumaire: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” Your position is still materially different than that of an Indonesian sweatshop slave. You can and should make the best of it.

This kind of thinking is still privileged. You do not recognize your responsibility to the people of the world and selfishly want to anihillate yourself to save yourself from the trouble of doing the hard work. This is ingrained american exceptionalism and you should reflect on that. I do not write this to “dunk” on you, but I live in an equally if not MORE anti-communist country, and what? Do I complain? Do I resign? No. Our organization is small, but it’s the little Davids that stand up against Goliath every day, get beaten down and rise back again. Because if not us, then who? You will not be saved from the outside, and resignation is admitting defeat, and giving away the win to the ruling class without a fight. Do better.

The biggest problem they fall in is constant universalism. Anything that is not pure in content, anything that includes any particular solutions to concrete problems, especially if it deviates from the Idea of Full Communism is deemed as a betrayal of the revolution. (Check out the conceptions of universalism and particularism in Hegel)

Where can I read about this?