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this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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I am personally feeling some relief. I am the trough. Now probably I just have to deal with a couple slow months instead of staring down unemployment.
I have mixed feelings.
On the one hand, if this reduces suffering, that’s objectively a good thing.
On the other hand, the Trump team is calling this a “victory” (“look at me fixing the problem I created, but still worse in the end”). If we avoid complete economic meltdown in the next few months, the dumb-dumbs who believe Fox News will buy the bullshit narrative. The accelerationist in me prefers a flare-up over a slow burn, so I dunno.
imo things getting worse without the working class building & bolstering militant institutions of direct power just means things get worse. you need capitalism to hit a crisis point + the working class to become an actual existential threat and force to be reckoned with for revolutionary change to go down. the amerikan left is nascent at best rn (though in my most optimistic moments i think maybe we're planting strong seeds, or at least stronger seeds than it seems at a glance), so anything that alleviates suffering and buys our class time to build the bones of something substantial is the best outcome at this juncture.
The problem is that there's not really a chance for the working class to build consciousness and organization until material conditions reach a more radicalizing point, so you have a chicken and egg problem. I think the real danger is in things deteriorating too suddenly, reaching a boiling point before the socialist organizations have enough maturity to seize the chance.