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I'm sorry to hear that comrade. We must hold capitalists and all their enablers accountable for every social murder. If you want to read a good work of someone struggling with this exact fact I highly recommend Connolly's "The Re-Conquest of Ireland" which is essentially him spelling out the daily and yearly death-toll and infanticide of capitalism with statistics that barely conceal a burning fury. That was at a brief time when he really was trying to approach things from a more reform oriented argument, not in action, but in the sense of how he was trying to reach people. A friend of his wrote the forward to it or Labor in Irish History a few years after his execution and spelled it out that Connolly viewed every moment these types of social murders occurred as unacceptable, each one weighed on him heavily and eventually not doing the Rising became tantamount to infanticide for him. Tragic as his fate was, it is a good example of how brutal the weight of this shit is.
Never lose that righteous anger, I know you don't need me telling you that, but for everyone else, just keep that in your hearts.
Here is Robert Lynd's introduction
The atrocities of imperialism and capitalism are truly unending. Silence is certainly complicity. If there is any "bright side" to any of this is the certainty that an unsustainable system is by definition unsustainable. The "dark side" is that the oligarchs have the means to destroy anything they cannot steal, and are doing it already.
My only hope is that any survivors remember who was responsible for the suffering.
I mean look at me, I partly became a communist because my Papap worked the mills for the steel industry and was a loyal union man immigrant, who I never got to meet because that job literally tore his lungs apart with metal from the inside. metal fibers coated the inside of his lungs. Despite my dad being conservative and my mom's parents being small business PMC, I eventually realize that I never even got the chance to meet my father's father because of profits even with a strong union. The man never even knew I existed and yet I survive him and remember who was responsible for his death, cause I know what they took from me
I think of this scene from a British mini-series about a socialist winning PM and getting couped, especially that final note https://youtu.be/Aj8qIRxQ5aU?t=245
"Don't forget, I have ancestors too"
Reality is radicalizing. Sorry for your loss, but congrats on your awareness. I will have to take a look at that series, looks interesting, thanks for the suggestion.
Bookmarked. https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/rcoi/index.htm