• demerit@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    There are nearly a million+ martyrs in the last few years, at this point everyone and their mailmen has been confronted with ourselves. Self-sacrifice only can be productive in the context of revolution (including the early organization phase) and without an army of labor - the acceleration into full on world war and fascism continues.

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      11 days ago

      Martyrs also help in the early organization stage as it plays a vital role in radicalization, a there’s a dialectical relationship between repression and resistance. In later stages there’s organizers that can turn martyrdom into propaganda, but in the early stages it creates those very organizers. Martyrdom isn’t the goal, it’s a single step.

      There’s also chauvinism that you have to consider. A million+ martyrs outside of the West are just numbers to them, it allows them to tune out the horror to cope. It’s categorically different to the average Westerner when their own neighbors become martyrs.