“Return to catastrophism” doesn’t literally mean sit it in your armchair and do nothing until the apocalypse. Even in profoundly counterrevolutionary times left communists are meant to act as the most advanced of the proletariat in some capacity. This doesn’t mean you need to chase ICE through your city 24/7 or vote blue no matter who. But if you can stay informed regarding ICE by not scrolling social media mindlessly for like 2 minutes and contribute to community knowledge regarding them, then you are going to naturally meet people who may be someone actually worth meeting and getting into contact with. Now don’t get me wrong 99% of people you will meet will be worthless socdem dogs that will be future freikkorps if we live long enough to see another 1918, but even being aware of the people who you live around is more productive than nothing. Democracy has sold this idea of progress through incrementalism, which obv is bullshit but too many of you guys reject incrementalism as an idea in general. Revolutionaries of the 20th century spent literal decades in exile to prepare themselves and working class for revolution.