I would rather liberals don't have a revolution, last thing I want is more liberalism
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Yo OP what is your idea of revolution though?
Is it riots in the streets? Hunting down the elites? Or maybe just voting far left? Please help these liberals figure out how to save this country. No idea is a bad one after all!
Revolution is the overthrow of the old state apparatus and the creation of a new state for the new ruling class, the working class. The tactics of revolution vary depending on the country and conditions, time in the movement, etc, but the overall strategy requires an organized revolutionary class and the replacement of the old state with a new one.
Revolution is the culmination of the difficult work of building a new society. It is not, as most of us who grew up movie-brained were taught to believe, a call of duty mission
If you want revolutionary action:
- Start or contribute to a community garden
- Help round up unused meds to distribute to people in need
- Help with Food Not Bombs
- Donate clothing and other goods
- Stop buying needless shit
- Pirate everything; subscribe to nothing
- Donate school supplies
- Tear down and disable Flock cameras
- Attend public forums and speak up to your local officials
Revolution is never going to be one big action or event that kicks off. Not like the movies try to convey it. It’s a collective rejection of things we have control over—most of which involve our wallets.
You wanna vote? Vote. Don’t want to? Don’t. The reality and the thing that folks need to grasp is that the ruling class will never let you vote away their power. Argue all day long; it doesn’t matter. It’s a fact. You can either sit around wishing you had the power to flip a switch, or you can do things on a local level to help those in need.
I'd also add joining a revolutionary party.
Same applies to modern protest. A big rule of thumb for this shit is: Can the evil leaders ignore what you're doing? If so, they will. If you cry about how there should be "no kings;" you're essentially hoping that the worst people on earth suddenly develop a conscience, hear your plea, and correct all of the bad things they've done. No, they'll just ignore it. Here are some disruptions to the status quo that they can't ignore:
- The economy (go on strike, protest on weekdays, don't be orderly, in-fact, be a total nuisance to the day-to-day operations in a city - preferably a "high value" location)
- The panopticon (ruin the surveillance state - protest the cameras, protest the data centers (also helps the last point), protest the infrastructure that these things rely on)
- Their livelyhood (protest where they live. And there's plenty to choose from; the shear number of people whose decisions actively fuck your life is astounding)
Just remember: don't harm anyone or anything. Protest them. Got it? Good.
Joining a union or creating one is one of the most subversive things one can do in this day and age. Propaganda for unions is very effective at leveraging the class schism in favour of workers/socialism.
Just don't a union that advocates creating large weaponry or represents law enforcement/servants of the state.
Proper unionising makes capitalists piss their pants. I have read a ton about politics (to my detriment – rip mental health) and it seems to really give you the most bang for your buck.
Unions are good, but you also need a political party that can go beyond trade unionism into an all-sided class struggle.
It shouldn't be all that surprising that liberals choose to continue to participate in liberal democracy. It's their system. They want to see it maintained, they don't want to see it dismantled or replaced. They like things the way they are, more or less, and they don't want to see things radically change.
Nobody is rebelling. Nobody. Not LIBRULS, not readicals, communists, anarchists, not even fucking nazis, which are just vice-signalling their limp dicks waiting for the result of not even fucking complaining at all. Definitely not OP, who just posts this shit and probably feels smug.
Do you want a revolution? Start it. Do something revolutionary. Risk being put it jail or being killed, which is what happens in revolutions. Or shut the fuck up, because even voting is doing more than nothing.
The only person doing something revolutionary in liberal countries in recent years is Luigi. And he has the balls to admit that he did it. Beyond that, any other protest has been much closer to voting than to an uprising.
Adventurism isn't revolution, it's a refusal to study theory before taking action. I will never condemn Luigi but to claim his actions were revolutionary fails to explain how they meaningfully gained worker power.
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Adventurism is not revolution.
Nothing happening right now is revolution.
Revolution has never happened
You might be the only one ever to think that.
No it's true, no revolution has ever happened and everyone who ever thought they did one was wrong. Nobody is a revolutionary and there is no hope of ever becoming one, leaving us with no path but to do nothing and contribute only hopeless navel gazing. I am a very serious communist.
Strikes have given you basically every working right you currently have, if that's what doing nothing looks like then I don't know what to say.
A strike currently is not revolutionary. And still not happening widely anyways.
Strikes are more revolutionary than adventurism, and historically have succeeded far more than simple assassination at getting concessions. They are also practice and discipline for actual revolution.
Striking is the bread and butter of revolutionary activity. The February revolution in Russia was a mass strike that escalated to a point the state could no longer control it. What do you think revolutionary activity looks like?
You are right, people are striking less now than they used to which is a major reason why things are getting worse: cost of living increasing, wages stagnating, the rich getting richer etc.
We need to unite as workers and strike, not vote, for the conditions we deserve.
Of course it is. And that's what I am pointing at. Any improvements happening right now due to organizing and striking are limited to specific industries and don't ripple outside of it. For it to be revolutionary, it must be as you say massive, encompassing several/all industries and beyond control. We are so far from that situation, that I cannot accept current moves as revolutionary. Good and necessary, don't get me wrong, but not revolutionary.
who told you we aren't?
you are the ones who keep complaining when our action inconveniences you in the slightest.
Dude, if your action is an inconvenience, it is not revolutionary.
if my action changes nothing, how do you expect it to change anything??
I don't.
risk being locked up revolutionary. lmao bro, you libs don't even have the slightest idea what the fuck true political organization means. you mfs believe revolution is a one man call of duty mission. the gringo states is truly the most backward brainwashed nation on earth.
This is propaganda meant to discourage voter turnout so the oligarchs can remain in control
Capitalists retain control whether the DNC or GOP is in power, the only thing that changes is which faction of capitalists is currently in charge.
It's not about the wealthiest 0.5%, the oligarchs as you'd call them. All of this revolves around the struggle against capitalism. Workers (about 60 to 70% of society depending on the definition and employment rates) against the bourgeoisie (~15% including petit bourgeoisie).
Yeah man, the oligarchs really give a shit which of their figureheads you vote for in the elections they control.
you cannot vote someone who isn't an oligarch my brother. that's the whole point of bourgeois """""democracy""""
why is it with y’all that something you disagree with is never just a bad take, but always some grand conspiracy?
- i promise you the oligarchs do not give a shit about influencing the 1000 monthly active users on this network
- they’d find it much more fruitful to influence the only opposition party instead, and. okay sit with me for a second. i have some bad news for you.
Not if you choose the Democratic socialist that establishment democrats are fighting against
