History does not bend toward justice on its own.

It is not some cosmic force that given enough time will inevitably deliver us from the jaws of capitalism, imperialism, and exploitation.

It is our hands, our minds, our collective struggle that shapes the world. And that struggle is not for the weak-willed,

not for those who flinch at adversity or crumble when the weight of history presses down upon them.

It demands discipline. It demands endurance. It demands a revolutionary mindset forged in the

fires of hardship. Now Marcus Aurelius, writing in the darkest hours of empire,

understood much of this, not because he was a revolutionary.

He was, after all, an emperor, a ruler of the old world,

but rather because he saw clearly what we must see now.

We control nothing except how we respond to the conditions before us.

The capitalist state will throw everything it has at us, repression, propaganda, empty distraction, and endless division.

The question is not whether we will face hardship,

but whether we will stand firm in our principles,

unshaken, focused, disciplined, and resolute.

The enemy wants us angry but unfocused, demoralized, reactionary. But anger alone does not build a revolution.

Frustration alone does not dismantle an empire. We must take that fire and forge it into something

unbreakable. The Stoics taught that adversity is not an obstacle, but it is the way forward.

When they push us down, we rise stronger.

When they try to break us, we become more disciplined.

When they crush one movement, a thousand more emerge.

Our task is not to seek comfort.

It is not to wait for some perfect moment to act.

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