The protests changed me in a lot of ways. One way was, I was by no means a class reductionist before. But the protests really woke me up to the real struggles of oppressed communities in the US and importantly, the revolutionary potential in those communities. I remember listening to Rev Left in my car and had to pull over for a minute to absorb it when Breht said something to the effect of "what did white socialists in America ever give us?! Bernie Sanders!? Fuck that! The real revolutionary potential is with oppressed communities."

  • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Well decentralization always exists, alongside centralization, especially in Revolutionarty organizations trying to gain power and protect themselces from the state. In almost any ML revolution the party was considerably more "decentralized" when under persecution or attack from the state especially compared to the heavily centralized post revolution image. By no means horizontal or anarchist but there is always a balance in each condition