There are just so many chuds that I worry if revolution happened any time soon, we'd just end up with an identical system with different people as the boot.

  • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Correct. If shit went down now, we'd get murdered by vigilantes and chuds first, then systematically by the new government.

    It is imperative that we grow our numbers and teach the necessity of revolution not because we want to shoot people, but because capitalists will not allow a better world: they will bring even more violence to us when we try. We also need to arm ourselves every step of the way and have an escape plan until we are armed and have numbers around 15-20%.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      3 years ago

      yes we need to achieve at least a baseline a popular support for armed revolution. If we have that then it doesn't really matter how strong the government is, we can use maoist people's protracted war tactics to bleed the country dry over years if necessary

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yes, though for the US I don't think a planned armed revolution will work any time soon. But an armed DemSoc/commie/anarchist alliance could turn into one if everyone stays cool.

        My logic is that Americans in general cannot understand politics outside of electoral newsmaking by themselves, so they must be brought into the fold through either a resurgent labor movement or a disciplined set of electoral pushes, where failure is leveraged into membership. The latter drives the former because lefties need something to do when electoralism inevitably fails, something that keeps them from getting brought back into the liberal party fold, something that builds power.

        And we need to be armed at all points because shit can be dark fast and we need to at least be ready for defense. It will be a hard sell to get a Bernie SocDem that just wants M4A to buy a gun and learn urban guerilla tactics and plan to shoot their neighbors. But you can get them to read The Jakarta Method and understand that they're getting shot too if conditions deteriorate soon.