because almost nobody in the western world around you is one, so you’re essentially talking to a brick wall or worse
I read Langston Hughes’ poetry when I get in that mood.
its not a curse, dialectical materialism is such a powerful tool to understand the world and relations around you.
I know exactly what you mean OP, i’ve been pushed out of social circles for my communist views before; granted those people where likely never my friend, but it only takes one fashoid to paint you as a ‘red fash’ for not believing china is literally 1984 x200 to the politically uninformed that their cognitive bias and general feel due to the media pushes them to agree with them and act tribally.
Dont get me wrong, im highly social; I have many friends, different productive social circles; this is just one group of people, but the sad part is i’ve lost some people I was on good terms with for years and I would be lying if I said it didnt hurt, it does! I hate the alienation and tribalism present in the social fabric of the west, you really do feel that tolerance for ideologies left of the liberal orthodoxy has basically become 0 in the UK at least.
The title and post body rhyme.
isn’t rhyme also about the number of syllables in each verse?
No, that’s rhythm.
I don’t think that’s the curse. There are actually a lot more communists in this world than you think. The curse is trying to find a good principled one IN REAL LIFE that can organize, agitate, relate, lead etc.
it’s the curse of Cassandra
Yeah fam I feel you there, I wrote this poem because I constantly have to deal with this within my own family.
Minutes to midnight - Sitting alone on a rusted swing, Mid of the night
Surrounded by rubble and the collapse of a life
Looking back long ago in the land of the first satellite
Their slogan proletarians of the world must unite
The global hegemon put them to death out of spite
And now in the west on the brink of a fight
We sit on a swing in the middle of the night
Love it
