I’ve been zoning out in the past week and I feel like doing a lot of things on auto pilot. I don’t really want to do anything other than talk politics it seems. It probably has to do with the Dutch election results. I’ll get over it.
I’ve made some comments on popular lefty pages on instagram, under my own name, and received death threats for it lol. I don’t mind receiving death threats on reddit or lemmygrad but to receive them on a personal level was new for me.
How are you doing?
Up and down. What’s going on in Palestine recently, motivated me to go out to protests and actually do some praxis, as I’ve talked about a bit here. Also, I’m planning on joining a Marxist student organization, which I discovered through my involvement in Palestine protests, soon so that’s nice. But I’m also starting to notice that I’ve been starting to lose a lot of the momentum I had a month ago, which makes me afraid that I’ll just retreat back to where I was before which is just reading theory and learning about Marxism, but not engaging in praxis. While I’m at it I just want to say that it has been so cool discovering this community. Y’all have been a big part of furthering my understanding of Marxism and you definitely played a role in motivating me to act on my political convictions. I really hope I can use this newly found enthusiasm and keep going. Thank you all for being part of my political journey and providing a great environment in which I can learn, and forget about this horrible world we live in for a while. Love y’all!
also feeling a bit autopilot-y lately. looking forward to the winter holidays though, planning to spend time with friends
The election results depressed me so much, especially since my party BIJ1 lost their seat, after campaigning so hard for them. But somehow this made me more eager to further the socialist cause and want to be more involved in organising and activism.
Yes, we’ll go on. But we are in the municipal councils of Rotterdam, Almere and Utrecht still and have borough council members in Amsterdam West and Zuidoost so we are still represented. I think we will use this election as a learning moment. I personally also hope we will work together more with other leftist orgs like De Socialisten, NCPN, and maybe even the Belgian PVDA.
Trying hard to keep my chin up and my jaw gritted. Winter holidays feel like they get worse for my headspace every year, mix in the current geopolitical climate and the insufferability of Amerikan liberals, and it’s a wonder I haven’t outright split on anybody irl yet.
