Climate Becomes Latest Target of Revolutionary Fury
Spanish Marxists have taken their revolutionary fervor to new heights by organizing protests against the weather, apparently believing that atmospheric conditions respond to ideological demands and strongly worded chants. The movement, which has baffled meteorologists and entertained everyone else, represents either the peak of political activism or evidence that everyone needs to take a collective breath and reassess their priorities.
The protests began when unseasonably warm temperatures in Madrid led activists to conclude that weather is a capitalist conspiracy designed to oppress the proletariat. “The bourgeoisie controls everything, including cloud formation,” explained one protester who clearly skipped the physics classes that might have complicated this worldview. Armed with signs reading “Seize the Means of Precipitation” and “Workers of the World Unite Against Cumulus Clouds,” demonstrators marched through streets demanding that weather patterns align with socialist principles.
Meteorologists have responded to the protests with the professional equivalent of “what do you want us to do about it?” Scientists patiently explained that weather results from atmospheric pressure systems and solar radiation, not class struggle or economic policy. The protesters dismissed this as “bourgeois science” and continued chanting at clouds, which remained frustratingly apolitical and unmoved by revolutionary rhetoric. Clouds, it turns out, are notoriously difficult to unionize.
The Spanish government finds itself in the awkward position of having to respond to protests about a phenomenon completely beyond their control. Officials have tried explaining that while they can address economic policy and social programs, they cannot actually command the weather to be more egalitarian. This rational response was met with accusations of defeatism and lack of revolutionary commitment. Apparently expecting politicians to control the weather is the new baseline for government competence.
International Marxist groups have expressed solidarity with the Spanish weather protesters, with demonstrations planned in other countries featuring similar demands that meteorological phenomena adhere to ideological frameworks. One group in Berlin plans to protest “elitist precipitation patterns” that distribute rain unequally. Another in Paris wants to establish workers’ councils to democratically decide cloud coverage. The logical inconsistencies are staggering, but the commitment is admirable in its absurdity.
Conservative commentators have had a field day with the weather protests, using them as evidence that leftist politics has jumped the shark, landed in a hurricane, and demanded the hurricane apologize for being reactionary. While this criticism is somewhat fair, it conveniently ignores equally ridiculous positions on their own side of the political spectrum. Apparently everyone has their own brand of crazy, and protesting weather is just the left’s current flavor.
Climate scientists have tried to redirect the protesters’ energy toward actual environmental issues that humans can influence, like emissions reduction and renewable energy. The protesters respond that this is “reformist thinking” and that true revolution requires confronting the weather directly rather than addressing boring policy solutions. It’s the activist equivalent of choosing to fight final bosses while ignoring all the achievable side quests that would actually make progress.
As the weather protest movement growsor perhaps just gets more media attention, which is basically the same thingSpanish society grapples with what this says about modern activism. Have we reached the point where political ideology is so all-consuming that we’re picketing atmospheric pressure systems? The answer appears to be yes, and that answer should concern everyone regardless of political affiliation. When revolutionaries are yelling at clouds, maybe it’s time to workshop some new strategies.
The ultimate irony of protesting weather is that it perfectly encapsulates modern activism: passionate, highly visible, completely ineffective, and missing the point spectacularly. The Spanish Marxists demanding that weather conform to their ideology represent all of us, just with less self-awareness and better slogans. We’re all shouting at forces beyond our control while ignoring the problems we could actually solve. At least these protesters are doing it with commitment and really good chant rhythm.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/marxists-in-spains-protest-weather/
SOURCE: Sarah Pappalardo (https://bohiney.com/marxists-in-spains-protest-weather/)
