JaredLevi

Now if it was an anti fascist wall like in Berlin... maybe then but "Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" so she would never.

my best friend is an "anarchist" (because he has never read a single line of theory) who works for a DoD contractor. He experiences this every day! His whole job is to be on site for 18 hours a day so that the company can charge the government more. its almost like capitalism cant work with out massive government oversight, but no "THe fRee MarKeT".

For real, they get pissed when the USSR puts missiles in Cuba, but they have them all over the planet. WTF?

I'm not a fan of authorial intent... I like to make my own meaning from what people say. Anyway here is a line by line brake down.

The title is a reflection of the 'Are we the baddies?' meme, symbolizing the realization that capitalism causes much of the world’s suffering. 'We are all soldiers pre-manufactured' speaks to the idea that capitalism sows the seeds of its own down fall; that once you recognize that capitalism is full of lies, you begin to fight against it. 'Asleep in a psychedelic liquid' and 'awash in false memory' represent how we are drowning in propaganda, while 'fractured' refers to the division within the proletariat. 'To one day wake full of righteous anger toward our enemy' is about the intense anger that comes with waking up to the reality of oppression. 'Built to hate the systems embedded within us' reflects how capitalism has ingrained itself within us, and how hard we’ll have to work to undo that. 'Assembled' could refer to the masses putting bodies in spaces or to individuals being shaped from birth. 'With a destructive lust' speaks to our revolutionary potential, and 'to live only in our dreams' touches on a utopian vision of the world, as well as my personal experience with people (mostly liberals) telling me that communism works in theory but not in practice.

thank you for your interest in what I was saying.

I realize the above comment might come off as rude or dismissive, and I’m sorry to any comrades I hurt by inadequately representing this as a real question, especially Łumało. I appreciate the feedback and will strive to be clearer in the future.

I love this comment! It seems like you interpreted the poem as suggesting we're in a simulation of capitalism. While I love where your mind is going, that wasn't what I had in mind when writing it. Honestly, though, that could make for a great book—about communists who don’t remember or never lived through capitalism, seeking proof of how terrible it was.

Totally based in material reality—maybe I just didn’t write it well enough. Thanks for the critique. Edited: This poem is about waking up to the contradictions of capitalism.

Amazing imagination comrade!

Honestly, I was just chilling, watching the show Severance, when the urge to write hit me—specifically, to write about how capitalism forges its own destruction due to its inherent contradictions. I also totally meant to post this to the creative writing sub, not comradeship. Oops!

Its not that they want to highlight it happened, but that they have "valor" for serving in it. Dog shit ether way IMO.

This is very good.

Beautiful!