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That brief moment after the October revolution when the workers had all the political capital and would beat up their managers if they so much mentioned the fact that they were 2 hours late and had missed work 3 times that week.
You got a couple options
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Accept that history is a slow process of development which will likely not bring the changes you will like to find in your lifetime
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Read theory and look for a new way forwards
Oh sorry I forgot
- Make some shit up to make yourself feel better, believe it entirely and deny all evidence to the contrary
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There were like 5000 members of the RSDLP in 1900. Most reformists. It wasnt even in the top 5 biggest left orgs. The Tsar would shoot leftists down in the street or gulag them at whim.
5 years later they played a secondary but still key role in the 1905 revolution, 12 years after that Lenin was at Finland station, surrounded by half of Moscow cheering.
Shit changes slowly, but that slow grinding work that seems pointless provides a strong foundation for massive, rapid change.
The momentum is insanely fast when a political movement actually catches, when it has its finger properly on the pulse and the people say "yes, this is it" things fly. Even in non-socialist things, you look at any major change in the political landscape of a country, shit happens incredibly fast, the rise and fall of entire parties, complete shakeups of political ideology in a matter of months.
We just have to make sure that when Zefram Cochran invents warp drive, we don't let the Capitalists shoot the visiting Vulcan envoy to steal their technology
well fuck. what if we just give up on america and let them all get addicted to opiates?
You have forty children, three are alive, and two are in the duke's army!
Doing all that is probably still easier than not doing it.
eventually things start hitting critical mass and rapidly and exponentially accelerating in ways we can't even concieve of historically because of how fast information moves now. timing will be key and jumping on opportunities. the slow grind will mostly be for step 1, but after that there may only be one real chance to steer this in a way that's good.
socialism cannot be achieved in one country.
:stalin-garrison: You sure about that?
