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Russia cannot afford to do nothing in retaliation. As a capitalist state, it can’t just roll over. The West is counting on it doing so and is prepared to sacrifice our lives by “calling the bluff.”
Russia’s credibility as a state is on the line for Putin.
Putin to announce war with NATO.
Which is why Japan and Korea are getting frantic about increasing numbers of their workers not having sex and reproducing.
Human will is as subject to cause and effect as is everything that exists. You are motivated to work toward socialism. If the majority are never motivated to, in spite of our efforts, then it was not possible.
One cannot think, feel, choose or do other than as one thinks, feels, chooses or does at any given time.
“If he had thought of checking his oven was left on, his house wouldn’t have burned down.” Fair enough, but he didn’t, so it was not possible that he might have. To say “he could have thought it” is meaningless.
Similarly, “If they had come round to our thinking and made socialism, we wouldn’t be lingering now in an unlivable world.” But they didn’t, so it wasn’t possible. To say they could have is equally meaningless.
The obverse is also true, of course.
If socialism never happens it obviously wasn’t possible, not because it wasn’t viable, but because people were never ready/aware for it. But we won’t know it was impossible until it didn’t happen. Whether our species has the ability to realise it remains to be seen. If we don’t realise it, then obviously we didn’t have the ability, because our collective will never came round to it.
You didn’t cross the road; you went into the store instead. You imagine it was possible for you to cross the road. But it wasn’t, because you didn’t. You cannot decide other than you decide at any one time. You cannot think other than what you think at any one time. You imagine you are free not to be a socialist, but you are not, because you are one.
” It is only now possible, through socialist consciousness, that such a possibility exists.”
********You’d think.
We will only know it was possible when it happens. If something possible never happens, then it wasn’t possible.
The only thing we can, and must, do is to do our best to edge it toward possibility, even when all the conditions for it to become possible are in place, except for the final ingredient: awareness on a large majority’s part. If that doesn’t come, then it wasn’t possible.Christian violence in Australia.
A clear connection here between conspiralunacy and American-style evangelical fundamentalism.
