It’s actually not like building a lego set. If you’ve never touched theory or praxis you’re going to need a ten minute video just to figure out how to organize a union at your work even though that’s a pretty simple job if your state allows it and I know I had anxiety considering they were basic organizing tool because my boss might try to fire me. And even if it was as simple as building a dual power network and sharing resources was still a pain in the ass.
Trying to imagine how telling people that over throwing capitalism, joining all the factions fo the left and verifying that they do indeed work together and fit inside a mass movement of the working class after figuring out what theory you need and leading the working class from scratch is like building legos is not a mark of being a complete dweeb.
Especially when a lot of people who have never even read theory from previous revolutions before are probably completely new to that sort of thing in general and have no frame of reference.
In short I’d really like chapos to shut the fuck up.
The furniture instructions are also not essential. It is helpful to build revolution from the past experiences. It is the duty of the communist party to make the knowledge accessible. Chairman Mao and Lenin circulated a lot of pamphlet.
Learning from and avoiding past mistakes is always good. Understanding the world and the players enough to predict how they will fight back is also helpful.
Necessary? Let's try a bunch of revolutions, for fun and science, and see how it goes.