Hey y'all, I know things are pretty fucked right now, just wanted to share an optimistic perspective. (Copied from a comment here).
I have honestly never been more bloomer in my life.
EVERYONE is thinks things suck.
EVERYONE is pissed.
EVERYONE is trying to do something about it.
The only problem is that people don't know why things suck, or how to make it better.
Fascists think things suck because of [minority], and so they want to get rid of [minority].
Liberals think things suck because of the fascists, and so would like everyone to just play nice and we can work this all out, please.
But WE know.
WE know the problem! IT'S CAPITALISM!!!
WE know the solution! KILL CAPITALISM!!!
If everyone in the world woke up tomorrow and knew what we know, the suffering would stop.
The collective rage that we see in society would be directed at the true enemy instead of each other, and nothing in the world is more powerful than people working together to make things better.
The only thing we must do to win, the only thing that truly matters, is to get everyone to understand.
History has blessed us with the ultimate weapon.
A material power that Marx and Lenin and Sankara and Newton could not dream of wielding in their wildest fantasies.
NOW is the moment in history for revolution.
Capitalism WILL fall in our lifetimes.
I'll be surprised if it lasts twenty years.
The contradictions have become undeniable.
The people want change, they just need direction.
And for the first time in history, we have a direct line to every single one of them.
Don't you DARE quit on us.
We need everyone we can get.
Now get back to posting, soldier.
Do you mind sharing why you think that?
Education is only part of what is to be done, it is not the only thing that’s keeping a revolution from happening. Organizing people is just as important, if not more.
There are so many people right now who understand capitalism and socialism etc., but it does nothing for the struggle because they do not act to challenge power (mostly because they benefit from the status quo somehow). Even if everyone suddenly had perfect political consciousness, nothing would change because no work has been done to organise - building people’s power. Without it, you will not be able to fight the infinitely more organised power of the capitalist state.
Finally, the internet is not a direct line of communication to everyone. It reaches only a specific demographic. You can’t rely solely on it to build a mass movement.
Does it make sense? I get that we’re in the bloomer comm but I think it’s important to not stray into idealism.
What is "organizing" beyond education?
Yes, there needs to be material action behind it, and I'm saying that there already is, it just needs to be pointed in the right direction.
A hundred million people are frothing at the mouth to deport as many people as possible, and I submit that it is not out of hate.
WHY does "immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country" resonate with people?
It is not because they really really hate Mexicans. Some do, of course, but not enough to build a mass movement.
It resonates with people because the blood of this country IS poisoned. This country is possessed by a demon, and it needs an exorcism. And people feel this.
And they are trying to fix it.
They are organized.
They are taking material actions.
They are willing to sacrifice.
Capital sees this happening, and it is terrified. It NEEDS to direct revolutionary energy away from itself, and so it conjures up a boogeyman.
It needs to be something pervasive, but immaterial. Something ubiquitous, yet divisive. A fight that must never end.
It needs to split the people in two, point them at each other, and let them take their revolutionary energy out on each other. The two sides should be perfectly balanced so no that no real progress is ever made, but also unstable so that each side feels like it might be able to win if it just tries a little harder.
Democrats get too powerful? No problem, whip up some hate for a minority on fox news. Republicans get too powerful? No problem, time to run some stories on hate crimes.
Every presidential election is close. Elections swing back and forth every few years.
That's not a coincidence. That's evidence.
I don't like it any more than you do, but MAGA is part of the revolutionary class, and we need to start acting like it.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled.
It is literally, materially a direct line of communication to everyone. It is a revolution in communication on par with the printing press.
CAPITAL has built the internet into echo chambers.
CAPITAL told us that we hate each other.
CAPITAL has algorithmically split us into factions that do not talk to each other.
What would Lenin have been able to accomplish if What Is To Be Done? could have been published online?
How much more effective would the movement have been if he had a YouTube channel?
What if the greatest minds across Europe at the time could have hopped on a video call to discuss strategy?
What if the soviets had a subreddit?
We're playing on easy mode, y'all.
R.I.P. capitalism, good luck making it to 2030.
i recommend you join a socialist organisation or a union to learn about that, but to put it briefly - organising is the act of building power, getting people to pool their collective resources to pursue specific demands. if you do organise irl, you will know that the internet is not where you go to organise workers. you go to the factories, to the warehouses etc. You do realise that literally, materially not everyone has access to the internet, right? Due to time or monetary constraints for instance.
also this is nonsense language and strays close to reactionary. "blood of this country" is not materialist analysis