spacedijks:

spacedijks:

real “getting sad over the decay and fall of socialism” hours

idc if it makes me a tankie or authoritarian stalinist or whatever but there was a point in history where a large portion of the world’s population lived in countries where the status quo was, to some degree, caring about humanity as a whole. there was a point in time when a newly-literate sichuanese peasant mother organizing a fundraiser to support south african workers was a normal thing that could happen. when the plight of black people in the US was a huge concern for millions of soviet citizens. when the average person in dozens of countries knew their neighbor’s names, and cared about the future of humanity. i know i sound stupid, and no socialist country was a utopia, but the achievements of the hundreds of millions of human beings who worked towards a kinder world must never be forgotten.

add in eternal life and this is how Catholicism understood itself