The idea of “if things get bad enough people will revolt” is kind of bankrupt.

I don't think it's bankrupt, I think it's incomplete. When I see the rising number of mass shootings and suicides and protests and political extremism in America, I think that that stuff 100% signals a revolt - but the problem is that people live their lives as individuals, so they revolt as individuals. Here on the left we should be about making people realize that they're part of a class so that they can revolt as a class.

That neighborhood that kicked police out and blockaded the road to stop their neighbors from getting evicted has the right idea, the CHOP had the right idea, but the problem with those moments is that there was no larger working class movement for them to connect to, so naturally they got besieged and crushed by the bourgeoise state.