I kinda just think it'll overall be like when Trump was inaugurated: Large, but peaceful, protests that'll eventually and quietly die out.
Maybe a few people will do adventurism, but not on the scale we saw in 2020 with pds being burned down n shit.
I hope I'm wrong I really do, but I just don't think libs have it in them, even over this
I think it's in the left's interest to be prepared for every one of these to be the next big one, even if they don't turn out to be. We need to be ready to jump in straight away and ride it as far as we can, and that won't happen if we give up before the thing even happens. We'll realize too late that there was potential, and by the time the left gets involved in earnest, the whole thing has already been co-opted by the DNC.
If we want a 1917, we need a 1905 first, and that won't happen unless we're ready for it
yup. defeatism is high-calibre liberalism that mutes and destroys are opportunities
i have a suspicion a good portion of dudes here are viewing Roe as some kinda culture war immaterial issue and not an urgent economic concern, and thats coloring this shit about "not Roe but food riots"
As Lenin himself said, “the representatives of the modern labour movement find that they have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about. Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing, but the class of wage-workers is growing inevitably, developing and becoming strong in every capitalist society, Russia included. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.”
I think there's definitely a good chunk of the left that goes so far in rejecting liberal identity politics that they discount identity entirely, and become class-reductionists in the pursuit of combating identity-reductionism. And past that point, any issue that effects people based on their identity more than their class is rejected as less important than purely class-based issues. This is what no intersectionality does to a person lol