Just kind of a random question I’ve had floating around in my head: should we be working out?
Like, naturally comrades who are disabled/food insecure/otherwise not able to consistently exercise shouldn’t feel required to do so, and should instead only do so if it is healthy for them and plausible for their current situation. However, those of us who are largely capable of undertaking consistent diet and exercise, I kind of have the question of whether we should be obligated to? The day the revolution comes, there will be many fascists who are in prime physical condition to actually fight a war due to the pervasive nature of gym culture and machismo patriarchy. Should we not do what we can to prepare in kind?
I understand that this isn’t Vietnam anymore, and most warfare (at least on the side of the bourgeoisie) will likely be done with drones against human targets. See NATO v. Russia in Ukraine and the genocide in Palestine to understand more of what modern warfare will look like, but I digress. When it comes time for us to pick up arms and storm capital buildings, how will our fighting force survive if the many of us aren’t physically capable of sprinting more than a short distance, dropping and rolling quickly, digging ditches, or scaling fences or walls?
This question may be more pointed to certain ‘comfortable’ demographics of the West, because many proletarians do not have the luxury of working soft jobs that do not harden their bodies; or they otherwise require some of these skills to survive. Then I suppose you can even extend the question to: should we start learning survivalist methods like foraging and fireplace building and such? Most of this warfare that will take place will be guerrilla warfare, and historically those have taken place in dense forests and mountains. I suppose there will also be urban warfare to an extent, but regardless clandestine operations of the vanguard party leadership will take place in secret places stored away from society. Even then, urban warfare will require its own host of resources and methods to survive. Is this supposed to be an issue that the vanguard party will solve during organization of the working class?


It definitely wouldn’t hurt. I saw in another comment that you would like to do martial arts but cannot because it is expensive. The same can be said for gym: if you haven’t got a few hundred dollars to spare, then it’s basically out of the question unless you find it for extremely cheap.
But you can still do calisthenics at home/at the park and running! This will already make you much more fit than any sedentary person, and you will be ready for when you find a place for martial arts or anything else. I’d reccommend to keep doing that even after you find a place though 😉
Also, if you have a bit of money to spare: a kettlebell, dumbbells, an ab rollerwheel, or any other piece of equipment can already take you very far.
Also, Mao said:
This is also a good reason to be working out.