• mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    My feeling about this is that the US has had the material conditions for a revolution for some time. It's hard to tell, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of Americans are poor, unhappy, and angry at their government. The reason way no revolution or Big Change happens in because their is no leadership that articulates a different way. I've been to a decent share of protests now, and all of the BML leadership I've seen is extremely liberal. The anarchists who show up to these have my sympathy, but, like, you actually do have to tell people what to do in order to build something.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      Exactly. It's a lack of organization. The American people burned down a fucking police station, the revolutionary potential is definitely out there. Leftists need to start building parties for duel power. Start a soup kitchen or something and keep building up.

      • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Leftists need to start building parties for working class power. We don't want dual power, we want power for the working class to the exclusion of the capitalists.

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Dual power is an untenable position, but it is what happens between the buildup of proletarian power and the collapse of bourgeois power. I don't think there is any way around it aside from some sort of cataclysm which completely erases the power of the state as we know it.

          • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Sure, it's possible, but IMO not a forgone conclusion, that there will be some unstable and transitional period of concurrent and competing power structures, but again, that's not actually what we want to to achieve.

    • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The leadership isn't there because the communication channels arent strong enough. I don't just mean how we communicate with each other. Specifically I mean how the masses get their news and political analysis. As long as people get their info from for-profit, corporate media, they aren't going to choose to overthrow the corporate oligarchy. "The master will not give you the tools to destroy his house."

      • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I'm not sure I agree. It's true that the mainstream media is very centralized and controlled by a few corporations, but also social media lets unusual ideas spread very quickly. Think about Qanon. Even though it includes bizarre and insane ideas, everything from aliens to Donald Trump being capable of planning and secrecy, it has spread to the point where there are thousands of believers of different ages and genders across multiple countries. Too bad it's so reactionary... Chapo trap house, in it's podcast form, is another good example. I feel like radical ideas have way more potential to spread now than they did like 20 or 30 years ago.