Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?
By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.
Before the massive BLM protests, riots, and rebellions, I thought it was impossible. That occurred during the worst period of the pandemic and I think people are in a pretty different mental context now and basically forgot about it. Not a lot came from it but it shows people do have a capacity to get mad and fight for things.
yeah, this is where I'm at too. The spontaneous bubbling anger that can manifest should be evident that things can happen. Problem is that I think capitalist subjects aren't primed yet in taking out their anger in structured ways. Or maybe they won't ever be. A leftist revolution among the imperial core is gonna look like a yearly tradition of riots that increase in frequency and intensity. Eruptions of discontent that become more difficult to manage by the state, until something breaks. Either the rioters figure out what they're doing, or the state recedes and focuses its attention elsewhere.
I don't know. We'll see. The spirit is definitely there. People burned down a police station and were cheering. This image:
should be the response to anyone who suggests nothing can ever happen in the west. It can, it's just not surface yet. The spirit doesn't know where to go.
Im not of the belief that nothing can happen. A police station burning down is not getting us any closer to a revolution led by the masses. We have always known people have it in them to fight back. It's can we organize enough of them and can we do it before they kill us all first that is still the problem.