Do you really think the western left is serious enough? What has it accomplished? Do you think others will take us seriously if we don’t take ourselves seriously, and how can we accomplish anything at all, let alone revolution, if we’re not serious about it?

What does being serious have to do with anything? The Western left sucks because:

• refusal to learn from history

• lack of veteran revolutionaries to pass the torch to the younger generation (a big part of this is the feds jailing and assassinating the effective revolutionaries while sparing the useless and compromised ones)

• general incompetence like the recent case of a DSA delegation snubbing the Cuban president

• active refusal to see Western imperialism as the primary contradiction

• a completely undeserved air of arrogance despite accomplishing fuck all (being serious would only make this even more obnoxious)

• lack of anything resembling a communal or self-sacrificing spirit for the greater good

• over representation of college students that comes with petty bourgeois baggage

• not able to socialize with normal people like a normal person (being able to crack a joke and not give off the vibes of a always-serious cultist does much to alleviate this)

• being optimistic of the intellect and pessimistic of the will

I could go on and on. And not one of them would have anything to do with not being serious. If anything, I could think of at least two points where being serious all the time would make it even worse.