prokopetz:

I’m increasingly convinced that for a lot of self-proclaimed revolutionaries, total inaction isn’t an ideological failure mode – it’s the actual goal. Like, if you’re gonna construct an ethos whereby any political action short of immediate armed revolution is seen as a capitulation to the status quo, and must therefore be construed not merely as ineffectual but as actively immoral, knowing darn well that the Glorious Revolution isn’t gonna happen tomorrow (and next week’s not looking good, either!) – well, now you’ve built yourself a little house where you get to feel morally superior about doing absolutely nothing, and if we’re expected to believe that wasn’t the intended outcome all along, at least one of us is an idiot.