When trump was inaugurated all my liberal friend’s were “woeing” and dooming; I kept mentioning I’m not worried because I believe in the people and they told me they didn’t so I knew we weren’t on the same side. But many things are causing people to be fed up: lesser job opportunities + corporate AI takeover + unknown tarrif things + general apathy to trump + all the other unresolved problems from previous administrations + weirdo rwingers who want to play military. Not much more is needed to tip people over, just time.
I feel this, honestly things needed to get much worse before they got better. I know people get mad at accerationist for this take but any of us barely have any power with shit going belly up it was gonna happen regardless. Democrats were already going hard right on immigration and you even had Bernie mention how necessary ICE is while back
I think so, too. The correct path forward is to not contribute to making things worse, but be ready to jump on it when they do. Russia, China, Korea, and Vietnam had to experience world wars coupled with colonialism before their revolutions were able to succeed. We aren’t at that point yet in the US, nor would we want to create such conditions deliberately. When things do get that bad will be the optimal moment to spread class consciousness and divert that energy into socialist revolution.
I think the BPP had it right when they said “Survival pending revolution.”
To be fair, I’m still worried because while I have hope in the people I also know that they need to be organized to be successful in their struggle for liberation. People are not organized, people are just angry. That’s not sufficient. As you mentioned, people have been taking it to the streets for a while with no great success to show for it. The riots haven’t even really consumed most of the city yet, much less any other cities.
That being said, they’re all braver than the troops. Wish them all and any Comrade here in the area the best. I also do think summer is only getting started, this will escalate further but I hope it does in a good way.
May Sheinbaum liberate the people of Alta California!
I think we need to modernize our approach. Orgs should be the ones ready to handle and deligate work towards liberation. We take in the people’s woes and channel their anger so they won’t need to explicitly join but sympathy or supportive trust is enough to keep the orgs afloat
That’s fine, except there aren’t any organizations that are even remotely prepared to take any form of power either. PSL doesn’t even hold any local offices or power and that’s the one people usually like to champion, and my favorite from the choices as well. So, when I say the people aren’t organized I also mean there is no effectively organized political vanguard.
That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t take actions, I’m not criticizing that, I just don’t see it leading anywhere so I’m still worried about seeing fascism ramp up domestically.
, hope you all have a good week 
When trump was inaugurated all my liberal friend’s were “woeing” and dooming; I kept mentioning I’m not worried because I believe in the people and they told me they didn’t so I knew we weren’t on the same side. But many things are causing people to be fed up: lesser job opportunities + corporate AI takeover + unknown tarrif things + general apathy to trump + all the other unresolved problems from previous administrations + weirdo rwingers who want to play military. Not much more is needed to tip people over, just time.
I feel this, honestly things needed to get much worse before they got better. I know people get mad at accerationist for this take but any of us barely have any power with shit going belly up it was gonna happen regardless. Democrats were already going hard right on immigration and you even had Bernie mention how necessary ICE is while back
I think so, too. The correct path forward is to not contribute to making things worse, but be ready to jump on it when they do. Russia, China, Korea, and Vietnam had to experience world wars coupled with colonialism before their revolutions were able to succeed. We aren’t at that point yet in the US, nor would we want to create such conditions deliberately. When things do get that bad will be the optimal moment to spread class consciousness and divert that energy into socialist revolution.
I think the BPP had it right when they said “Survival pending revolution.”
To be fair, I’m still worried because while I have hope in the people I also know that they need to be organized to be successful in their struggle for liberation. People are not organized, people are just angry. That’s not sufficient. As you mentioned, people have been taking it to the streets for a while with no great success to show for it. The riots haven’t even really consumed most of the city yet, much less any other cities.
That being said, they’re all braver than the troops. Wish them all and any Comrade here in the area the best. I also do think summer is only getting started, this will escalate further but I hope it does in a good way.
May Sheinbaum liberate the people of Alta California!
I think we need to modernize our approach. Orgs should be the ones ready to handle and deligate work towards liberation. We take in the people’s woes and channel their anger so they won’t need to explicitly join but sympathy or supportive trust is enough to keep the orgs afloat
That’s fine, except there aren’t any organizations that are even remotely prepared to take any form of power either. PSL doesn’t even hold any local offices or power and that’s the one people usually like to champion, and my favorite from the choices as well. So, when I say the people aren’t organized I also mean there is no effectively organized political vanguard.
That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t take actions, I’m not criticizing that, I just don’t see it leading anywhere so I’m still worried about seeing fascism ramp up domestically.
Ooh yes you’re right. Orgs are nowhere near stable enough to take this on. It’s a shame