{"id":96371,"date":"2025-10-03T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96371"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:14:17","slug":"qotd-the-role-of-the-true-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/03\/qotd-the-role-of-the-true-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The role of the True Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong>Anon<\/strong> @Greynxgga69<\/p>\n<p><em>Abolish The Family. <br \/>\nAbolish Religion. <br \/>\nAbolish Wage Labour. <br \/>\nAbolish Money. <br \/>\nAbolish Work. <br \/>\nAbolish Commodity Production. <br \/>\nAbolish the State. <br \/>\nAbolish Class. <br \/>\nAbolish Private Property. <br \/>\nAbolish the Nation. <br \/>\nAbolish Patriarchy. <br \/>\nAbolish Gender. <br \/>\nAbolish Town and Country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The True Believers imagine they will live in Utopia after the Revolution. <\/p>\n<p>They will instead be sent to the gulag, or lined up against the wall and shot. <\/p>\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n<p>Because the function of the True Believer is to make the Revolution. And the purpose of the Revolution is to replace The Regime. <\/p>\n<p>Once the Revolution is made, and The Regime has been replaced, no further Revolutions are wanted. Therefore the True Believer serves no purpose. <\/p>\n<p>He is a liability, because he has been promised Utopia, and Utopia is hard, even perhaps impossible, to deliver. If he does not receive the promised Utopia, he is apt to make Revolution again. <\/p>\n<p>The Regime does not want this. It does not wish to be replaced in the same fashion that it replaced The Regime. So the True Believer must be disposed of. He must be replaced with the Opportunist. <\/p>\n<p>The Opportunist can be relied upon, because he does not want Utopia. He wants to have more than his comrades. So long as he receives more than his comrades, he will serve The Regime. <\/p>\n<p>As above, so below. <\/p>\n<p>As before, so after. <\/p>\n<p>Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.<\/p>\n<p>Devon Eriksen, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Devon_Eriksen_\/status\/1940156033046905149\" target=\"_blank\">The social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em> <\/a>, 2025-07-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anon @Greynxgga69 Abolish The Family. Abolish Religion. Abolish Wage Labour. Abolish Money. Abolish Work. Abolish Commodity Production. Abolish the State. Abolish Class. Abolish Private Property. Abolish the Nation. Abolish Patriarchy. Abolish Gender. Abolish Town and Country. The True Believers imagine they will live in Utopia after the Revolution. They will instead be sent to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41],"tags":[780,506],"class_list":["post-96371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-communism","tag-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p4n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98254,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96371\/revisions\/98254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}