Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
Breht reads the speech he recently gave in-person at the 2026 Socialism Conference in Chicago. In the Speech, he analyzes the role of human subjectivity in revolutionary politics, explicates Che's…
At the deepest levels of our being, from the bottom of our hearts, we sincerely want to create a better world.
On some level, we want this for ourselves, sure, but more than that, we want it for others, for everyone.
We want politics and economics to work in the interest of regular people, to increase the quality of their lives, to help them flourish, and to catch them when they fall.
When we see Palestinian parents pulling the dead bodies of their children from the rubble where their home used to be, weeping madly, driven beyond the brink of sanity by their suffering, our hearts break in ways that we cannot articulate, and we weep with them.
When we see ICE agents violently tear crying, terrified children from the desperate arms of their screaming mothers or watch as a police officer empties his magazine into the chest of an innocent man in front of his family or stare at the bloodstained backpacks of little Iranian girls who were blown apart alongside their teachers by American bombs, bombs funded by us, we are overwhelmed with a dizzying and gut-wrenching combination of despair, hate, rage, and helplessness.
Especially here in the United States, it seems that this capitalist system, born out of the incomprehensible horrors of genocide and slavery, and maintained by ruthless exploitation and imperial slaughter, rewards with power and wealth the very worst amongst us.
It is the totally foreseeable and expected outcome of this particular historical process.
It is the cold, amoral logic of capitalism-imperialism bearing its dark and rotten fruit.
At some point in our lives, for one reason or another, we began to see under the veneer of Western life.
We developed an understanding and critique of the systems that dominate us, and through concerted study in the pursuit of truth and justice, we all came to the realization that the structure of this system itself was the problem.
And that the struggle for socialism was and is the only approach to the brutalities of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and fascism that actually attempts to address them at their root.
Awakened by experience, moved by compassion, inspired by resistance, educated by study, each of us threw our lot in with this beautiful, deep, and complex tradition.
a tradition animated by the profoundly human refusal to subordinate ourselves or stand idly by as others are subordinated to any form of oppression or exploitation.
Not only is it possible, but increasingly we are aware of its absolute and existential necessity.
We often talk of late capitalism precisely because we recognize on some level that this way of organizing human life is fundamentally unsustainable.
At the deepest levels of our being, from the bottom of our hearts, we sincerely want to create a better world.
On some level, we want this for ourselves, sure, but more than that, we want it for others, for everyone.
We want politics and economics to work in the interest of regular people, to increase the quality of their lives, to help them flourish, and to catch them when they fall.
When we see Palestinian parents pulling the dead bodies of their children from the rubble where their home used to be, weeping madly, driven beyond the brink of sanity by their suffering, our hearts break in ways that we cannot articulate, and we weep with them.
When we see ICE agents violently tear crying, terrified children from the desperate arms of their screaming mothers or watch as a police officer empties his magazine into the chest of an innocent man in front of his family or stare at the bloodstained backpacks of little Iranian girls who were blown apart alongside their teachers by American bombs, bombs funded by us, we are overwhelmed with a dizzying and gut-wrenching combination of despair, hate, rage, and helplessness.
Especially here in the United States, it seems that this capitalist system, born out of the incomprehensible horrors of genocide and slavery, and maintained by ruthless exploitation and imperial slaughter, rewards with power and wealth the very worst amongst us.
It is the totally foreseeable and expected outcome of this particular historical process.
It is the cold, amoral logic of capitalism-imperialism bearing its dark and rotten fruit.
At some point in our lives, for one reason or another, we began to see under the veneer of Western life.
We developed an understanding and critique of the systems that dominate us, and through concerted study in the pursuit of truth and justice, we all came to the realization that the structure of this system itself was the problem.
And that the struggle for socialism was and is the only approach to the brutalities of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and fascism that actually attempts to address them at their root.
Awakened by experience, moved by compassion, inspired by resistance, educated by study, each of us threw our lot in with this beautiful, deep, and complex tradition.
a tradition animated by the profoundly human refusal to subordinate ourselves or stand idly by as others are subordinated to any form of oppression or exploitation.
Not only is it possible, but increasingly we are aware of its absolute and existential necessity.
We often talk of late capitalism precisely because we recognize on some level that this way of organizing human life is fundamentally unsustainable.
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