Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?

By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I think we'll see the end of capitalism within our lifetimes; I don't think it'll look anything like the October Revolution. I think decaying material conditions will lead to increasing uprisings, jealousy over conditions in communist countries will lead to more uprisings, a decaying police state will lead to scared government officials making concessions, and Chinese foreign policy will also lead to western governments making concessions. I don't think there will be a clash between revolutionary forces and standing armies; think it'll be weird, faltering, and kind of pathetic.

    Don't imagine the glorious leaders of the revolution and the protagonists of history; imagine some barbaric backwater at China's periphery painfully lurching into the communist era.