I know there’s some Che quote about this, but I can’t translate it into the reality of living side by side with treatlerites. It rings so hollow. Some say a revolution only requires 3% of the population, but that assumes that you eventually gain the support of most of those remaining 97%. I just don’t see it ever happening. There has never been even a fledgling revolution in an imperial core country.
And with this mindset, I’m guaranteed to become an elitist asshole who plays perfectly into the stereotype of the ivory tower communist, further alienaiting and discrediting myself and the cause, reducing the odds.
What helps me is the belief that the things people do are almost entirely based on conditioning, like another animal just adapting to their environment with little conscious effort driving it. I don’t get mad at or hate a bee that stings someone, I usually feel the same about treatlerites etc. Most people general don’t want to be assholes, they have some empathy when actually directly interacting with people, they are selfish and competitive and anti-socialist because they’ve been tricked by our economic and social order and the bourgous media that props up the capitalist ideal. I don’t think being an “ivory tower communist” would necessarily discredit yourself or the cause though, you should be proud of having the fortune to see through the conditioning to a better reality.