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.