Acceleration is the inevitable conclusion of understanding socialist revolution as the direct consequence of deteriorating material conditions.
We need to counter the idea that this is sufficient. Socialist radicalization does not directly follow from deteriorating material conditions unless the populace is fully proletarianized and actually aware of the contradictions in capitalism that create that deterioration - or if the populace can be convinced, defended, and collaborated with a vanguard party as so many have done, particularly by enjoining the rural workers and farmers (and usually in the context of anticolonual liberation).
This should be socialist education 101: shit getting bad does not automatically create socialist revolution, the social relations necessary are contingent on the country, education, propaganda, and ability to identify the enemy.
Acceleration is the inevitable conclusion of understanding socialist revolution as the direct consequence of deteriorating material conditions.
We need to counter the idea that this is sufficient. Socialist radicalization does not directly follow from deteriorating material conditions unless the populace is fully proletarianized and actually aware of the contradictions in capitalism that create that deterioration - or if the populace can be convinced, defended, and collaborated with a vanguard party as so many have done, particularly by enjoining the rural workers and farmers (and usually in the context of anticolonual liberation).
This should be socialist education 101: shit getting bad does not automatically create socialist revolution, the social relations necessary are contingent on the country, education, propaganda, and ability to identify the enemy.
yeah material conditions have been really bad without even a hint of socialist revolution so it can't be the only factor
This is correct but extremely bleak because none of that shit is ever gonna happen in America. The only thing we've got is worsening conditions
In America it isn't going to happen but in one of the fractured independent states that emerges from American balkanization, who knows.
It won't happen in the America you see today.
Century of Humiliation America, though? Sky's the limit!
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