💾 Archived View for library.inu.red › file › resisting-martyr-complexes-stm.gmi captured on 2023-01-29 at 13:41:04. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
➡️ Next capture (2024-07-09)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Title: Avoiding Self Imposed Martyr Complexes Author: Sarah Saint Michael Date: 03/02/2021 Language: en Topics: mental health, revolutionary suicide, trauma, processing trauma, dogmatic suicide Source: Original
As we grow more to understand traumas place in not only a micro scale,
but a macro, we must ensure our approach to our own pain, is as
principled as possible.
Death is a truth, an absolute. We all know death. Our personal relations
to death is where fear lay. For the passing of life as absolute as the
creation. Our own personal relations and motives to their core under
capitalism, are all founded in survival.
When one takes their own life, it is suicide. As deeply elaborated by
Huey P Newton, there are two main categories of suicide. Reactionary
suicide, and revolutionary suicide.
Reactionary suicide is when your present conditions; your financials,
your family, your mental state, incite taking ones own life. There is no
shame in reactionary suicide. I personally have attempted reactionary
suicide once; and tried to try another time. There is no shame in
reactionary suicide, but it, more specifically, it’s causes, may all be
directly addressed and ailed, how ever dire moments may seem.
Revolutionary suicide, in short; is the act of resisting the systems
that create present conditions. A van for those who seek, a cell for
those who preach, a gun for those who be. It is a choice we have all
made by this point, either consciously or subconsciously that we must
frame correctly for our own health. While it may be a truth we
collective live with, the game of cat and mouse with the state ends one
way.
That truth however, has presented an array of internal contradictions
based on harm. We have take this, and doubled down. Coinciding with our
demonstrations, this has opened the door to on the ground practiced
nihilism, which gets people hurt. Outside of the “protest” perspective,
we must analyze martyr syndrome that is developing like a virus.
To romanticize your pain, to finalize it, are both fruition’s of martyr
complexes. The ability to project reactionary suicidal ideation in an
aesthetically reframed way allows for a deeper internalization of the
martyr complex than otherwise possible. Death can be so appealing, as
may destruction. And these may feel exponentially better in the short
term; but we fight to live. Something none of us have truly been allowed
to do yet. I ask that you fight for the love you know, rather than the
anger you are given. Yet this condition, this mental state, lay under
neither category and rather is a mix of both, reactionary revolutionary
suicide. We shall now refer to it as dogmatic suicide.
Dogmatic suicide is the internal weaponization of revolutionary suicide.
It is to use the car of revolutionary suicide to drive where you please.
I am not shaming you for your dogmatic suicidal ideation. I am hoping
that understanding it may prevent or alleviate it. Often conflated with
“recklessness” or “accelerationism” dogmatic suicide is the act of
unnecessary endangerment in the name of revolution.
The distinction between revolutionary and dogmatic suicide is an
objective one. Revolutionary suicide is caused by external conditions
created by ones work towards revolutionary efforts. Dogmatic suicide is
caused directly by the cadres themselves. For unprincipled opsec as a
result of mental health, to overly aggressive operations; dogmatic
suicide is incited through one individuals brazen efforts to change
their current conditions.
Death is a truth. But when guns start shooting, we truly need every
single one of us. Please do not martyr until we may properly attain
retribution.
You are never alone, for we are truly so many