I recently caught my chud family member watching some dumb youtube video about “experts lying about COVID” (yes, chuds are still malding), and like, what’s the fucking point anymore?
You can be as gracious, understanding and in good faith as possible, but people will believe whatever nonsense some idiot influencer says is the truth. It makes me so mad, and unable to argue with these people, because their irrationality makes me irrational. Fuck.
Anyway, how are y’all doing? 
As revolutionaries, we don’t have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.
I understand that, but for those who refuse to listen? What then?
I’m in the same situation. I just don’t talk to these people anymore and tell them to shut up if I can’t get away. I’ve spent years like you probably trying to carefully explain things and they just revert to saying heinous shit about women, immigrants, tree-hugging liberals, etc. the second I’m not around.
It’s not like there are other ways to make people support us, so we have to just keep chipping at granite edifice of capitalism.
i can’t help but feel like this quote doesn’t really apply in the same way to america in 2025. nobody in sankara’s burkina faso benefitted from the status quo the way the typical white dipshit in the imperial core does and therefore actually had a reason to listen to communist arguments.
some people are just never going to listen to reason because of their material conditions and need to be reeducated or shot, and a lot of those people are white americans
I don’t think Trump gets elected if the white dipshits are content with their material conditions, though?
I think there’s real discontent in America in 2025, even with how privileged Americans are globally. I think that discontent is ultimately a result of getting squeezed by capitalism, and that most folks aren’t aware of that. Trump won by acknowledging that “the system” is broken, which most people know- he just pointed them to bigotry instead to protect capitalism.
That’s not to say that American’s material struggles are comparable to Burkina Faso’s - I think white folks in America are soft as shit - but I don’t think people feel like they’re doing well, and that’s ultimately what drives their actions.
They’re not content not because they’re exploited. They’re not content because they’re not as privileged anymore. Treats are more expensive and they can’t call Blake people the n-word anymore.
Exactly!! People are exploited and they know it, they’re just often ignorant of the cause.
America is deeply racist, and fascists stoke those flames to explain why people are exploited.
I think the quote is still relevant because a ton of our work is explaining to people “no, treats aren’t more expensive because woke, it’s because capitalism.”
Sankara was a real one.
The only time in the bible that Jesus genuinely lost his shit with people.
If I were taught this version of Jesus, I would likely be religious. Also, did Sankara write any books?
Some of his speeches and interviews have been released in book form, Thomas Sankara Speaks.
(https://library.agnescameron.info/revolutionary history/Thomas Sankara Speaks.pdf)