"Go on, call me a tankie, you are only cancelling a lib"

  • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    its entirely delusional to think Bernie was ever going to win or that real change could come from such a thing

          • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            How many times do we need to repeat this to you to understand? The conditions for revolution in a colonized state and a colonizer state are not the same?

            • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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              As I've mentioned elsewhere -- to you, in this thread -- no one knows how to create socialism in the imperial core. Writing off electoralism when no one has a surefire answer is ridiculous.

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Bruh it ain't happening through elections. We didn't even see a quarter of what the capitalist class could do to stop Bernie and pacify people. Look at the UK, Corbyn was sabotaged by half his own party.

                • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                  OK, what's your solution? Honestly, I'm all ears, but so far I've seen no other workable idea.

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                    Just keep radicalizing and organizing more people and building consensus. Bernie Sanders has been doing live streams with people from a dozen different organizations and unions since he dropped out. He's got tons of people that trust him and will work with him even if they aren't as left-leaning as he is. That's really good. Most revolutions as far as I'm aware haven't been perfect socialist projects, but included lots of people who joined a movement because they had similar goals or trusted that movement. Having that support doesn't mean he can win an election, but he can win in other ways.

                    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                      Just keep radicalizing and organizing more people and building consensus.

                      With the end goal of...?

                      Most revolutions as far as I’m aware haven’t been perfect socialist projects, but included lots of people who joined a movement because they had similar goals or trusted that movement.

                      If the goal is a revolution, where will these non-socialist who have similar revolutionary goals come from? A classic example of what you're talking about is a colonial independence movement where communist revolutionaries and non-communist revolutionaries join together for the purpose of evicting the colonial invader. But nothing like that specifically is going to happen in the U.S.

                    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                      4 years ago

                      or idiot fascists that are easily routed by other world powers.

                      You're vastly underestimating the danger of a U.S. that goes full fascist.

                  • Rev [none/use name]
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                    There is no magic bullet, there is no one thing that can lead to a revolution, imperial core or not - it is a multi-pronged approach. The pillars that have to be engaged simultaneously upon which any and every revolution has to rest are:

                    1. Propaganda - word of mouth, social media campaigns, demos, getting into the news with a positive message/spin, viral street art.
                    2. Activism - taking part in social justice protests, helping materially marginalized and vulnerable populations as well as just helping out in the community, training camps, mutual help orgs, political campaigns.
                    3. Establishing communes, co-ops, sanctuary cities and regions where socialist policy is implemented.
                    4. Infiltration and sabotage - getting sleeper agents into positions of power, getting agent provocateurs into hostile structures in order to stage false flag ops and take out those orgs from the inside, whistle blowing.
                    5. Militancy - bank heists, hostage taking for ransom or in order to enforce/prevent certain policy, targeted clandestine mass assassinations (of cops, military personnel, politicians, bourgeoisie), taking over criminal syndicates.

                    All of the above done in concert build an actual revolutionary front that is able to wrestle power away from the bourgeoisie, as was the case time and again: Russia, Cuba, Greece, Yugoslavia, China, etc. The only other option that had success historically was a military coup by progressive officers. The second is arguably very unlikely if not outright impossible in the imperial core.

              • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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                Yes we know how to create socialism, we have done it dozens of times. we still need capitalism in the core to reach the correct conditions of crisis that it has reached in periphery states - WW2 was an anomaly that reset the clock on capitalism due to mass destruction of capital.

                All you are doing is mystifying.

                Tell me this, since you say “Marxism is a science, not a dogma - it is open to critique”

                Why then, is the critique from your type, your class, always exactly the same reformist idealist pablum? Why are you not even more revolutionary, authoritarian or something else? Why does the revisionist “drift” always gravitate to the right, towards capital - from petty bourgeoise ‘socialists’? Why is the drift never to the left, away from capital, from the poorer and more proletarian socialists?

                • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                  we have done it dozens of time

                  Exactly zero times in the imperial core. We had this conversation ten minutes ago in this thread -- why are you just repeating yourself?

                  • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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                    38 successful Marxist-Leninist violent revolutions through history.

                    Only 1 successful non-violent socialist revolution ever, and it happened in a colonial state and later became explicitly Marxist-Leninist.

                    No but it is your bullshit new synthetic leftist variant that will save the world. The variant your class has been pushing for 200 years without any success whatsoever

                    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                      38 successful Marxist-Leninist violent revolutions through history.

                      Again, exactly zero in the imperial core.

                      • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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                        GDR is in the imperial core.

                        I believe that colonized states need to revolt first, cut off the exploited wealth streams to the core and then the core will collapse and revolt.

                        The core will not revolt first, on its own, while it still has an intact empire.

                        Our role as internationalist communists in the imperial core is to hinder imperialism and prepare and build up revolutionary (not electotal) organizations to prepare for the collapse.

      • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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        You are the one who still believes in electoralism after what we witnessed. Who is the one coping and in denial again?