If I'm being completely honest, I dont really believe we have free will. Or we do, but in an almost entirely meaningless way on a civilizational scale. While you might be able to make small choices, material conditions and the flow of history ultimately decide the course of your life. We're all just products of our environment which none of us can change on our own, and as much as we can change our environment as a collective is decided upon by current conditions which are determined by oast conditions, etc. Basically i think the entirity of history was determined at the big bang, and were all just along for the ride.

  • TrumanShow_IRL [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    It’s not a chemistry set where if you just dump chemicals in a tub a reaction will happen. It requires us to make a choice

    but if free will is an illusion, that "choice" is itself just a reaction determined by nature.

    That’s why we should be working to create an alternative vision. The revolution will fail if we don’t have a plan for what happens if we win.

    the Bolsheviks did the opposite.

    The reason why electoralism doesn’t work as it exists right now is because there needs to be a clear and unified vision

    We have to actually go do politics rather than convincing people to come to a website or reading more Jacobin articles

    "we need a theory not a politics...we don't need theory, just do politics"