Modern Russia sucks. Capitalism has fucked us all. The USSR's existence was the only thing keeping capitalism in check for so long. It sent humanity to the stars and now capitalism is sending us into graves. Now we have no hope. China? IDFK... I don't trust that they'll fully give up capitalism any time soon.
I'm a shitty leftist, if I can complain I can organize, but sometimes it seems so hopeless now. The capitalist surveillance state crushes any threat before it gains power and eveyone is so warped by US propaganda. What hope do we have?
I just want hope for the future. But all I see is the death and destruction of something precious.
This right here. Capitalism is unsustainable and Socialism is the only real path forward.
Even if China remains market-socialist and never moves on to later stages, it will function as a pole in the emerging multi-polar world that subsequent communist revolutions can make use of. We might not be around to see or participate in them, but we can make them easier by organizing, whenever they do.