We also just hate eachother

Except you can and will be kicked out of those too. At least the Great Smokey Mountain National Forest has maximum occupancy times for its campsites, and will haul you to jail if they catch you camping outside off their official sites.

I wouldn’t call a virtue signaling land theft technique antithetical to capitalism.

The burden of marxists is that we understand our opponents positions and our own, but they don’t understand either.

I maintain that Marxists are better at playing the game of capitalism than "capitalists".

Was reading some of Engels letters about the stock market earlier lol

Agreed.

A big part of the "selfishness is human nature" thought process comes from Puritan brainworms. The Protestant work ethic and the belief that one's desire to have the basic necessities of life is inherently selfish form the basis of American capitalism, thus the idea that one must be worked beyond their limits in order to simply continue to live becomes baked into the fabric of society.

Basically everything wrong with America is John Calvin's fault at its source.

People who genuinely believe that have to be misanthropes.

I spent the holidays last year going to a neighbor's house, and hanging out in the balcony, with fireworks popping off from the ''cerro'' behind my home, with beers and loud music, while his boys who're off in Chicago, were videocalling us from their car, in a parking lot, drinking with us and some Mexican friends of theirs, while looking out for cops. The contrast was just sad.

To be fair, climbing up in trees isn't gonna save you from a bear.

Just remember to pack pepper spray and bear spray

Same. Like, what are the chances two psychopaths will be in that specific part of the woods, right?

Not really. Coastline is very cheap with how much of it there is, and I don’t need to be in a resort town or in the tropics. A sleepy fishing town would be more then enough for me.

Call me reductive but I'm starting to think you genuinely can't. It will need to die a slow and drawn-out death of ideology, if anything. Nothing else seems to be working, not even threats of annihilation on multiple vectors at scales beyond anything in living memory. Terrifying to grapple with.

How can one possibly solve this issue?

Century of humiliation

Long enough for future generations to forget what it means to be a settler

In the mean time carve out pockets of power with other non-settlers and do what we can wrt international solidarity.

How do you make them see that the alternative - community, is better than material isolation?

I think they'd need to see how community is elsewhere- outside the west- to understand. Because there are so many reasons why material isolation would be absolutely preferable over settler-colonial community to most people regardless of ideology.

Community, and society at large, can be an empowering thing, something that betters peoples' lives. It can be a force for harmony and equality rather than racism, alienation, and all sorts of societal divisions. It can be a source of belonging, fulfillment, heritage and culture, etc. This is too often not the case, particularly in the settler-colonial neoliberal societies of the west.

Everything you said is valid, but within this society (and most) home ownership is stability. Rural home and land ownership in settler-colonial countries (or worse, landlordism) is another matter entirely, but home ownership is a metric that many communist and formerly communist countries, China included, are testaments to the importance of. And by "community"- well, there is community, but one has to seek out their own decent spaces here. The mainstream society here in Canada frankly, increasingly disgusts, horrifies, and terrifies me, especially as someone who is a racial minority and a communist. In such a environment, seeking to isolate oneself makes complete sense, though the preferable thing would of course be leaving altogether.