Obviously it's impossible to predict it accurately, but we can make some educated guesses about what it will involve. No need to be rigorous, just throw some silly ideas out there.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    America has a couple points of struggle where the underclass regularly rebels:

    -Indigenous land struggles

    -Student labor and tuition struggles

    -anti-police struggles

    Indigenous land struggles have the most potential of all of these struggles because they inherently transform social relationships, and are tied to something concrete: the land. If they win, they win their farms, their gathering grounds, their cultural institutions, and everything that connects those.

    The other two hold less potential. A taken over university is still really just a collection of buildings. To be anything useful, it needs food, electricity, etc. It isn't grounded in the land the same way. This was the failure of the French uprising of '68. Similarly, anti-police struggles can delegitimize and demoralize the cops and destroy their infrastructure

    Because America is de-industrializing and the industrial working class is paid off with the spoils of imperialism and ecocide, struggle over the MoP is unlikely, and what we're more likely to see is a service workers rebellion. This will either be reformist, or it will be a struggle against servitude itself, and will seek not for the proletariat to control their environment but to destroy it.

    So the task is to:

    Sabotage existing systems of oppression, build our own institutions, build a labor movement set on striking forever, support indigenous land struggles, and coordinate these projects to be able to support each other. If this succeeded, it would prevent the US from effectively managing an empire and the rest of the world could assert their autonomy, further weakening the US settler state at home.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The anti police struggle is more popular, but the indigenous movement has more potential to transform social relationships. Both are necessary, hence the necessity of organizing to connect struggles