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the impracticality of communism

BADUM TISH
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well ok, i think a practical organizing challenge in america is that most self-styled communists want to be educators and organizers rather than do what is proven to be effective: provide services to the community first and foremost. for example what about a clean streets initiative in NYC? identify one block with really bad trash problems and clean it up, beyond promoting yourself to the locals you would post the before and after pictures online. in some cases you could call out the owners of the property for not doing this themselves
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The main organizing challenge in America is the stability and complacency rendered by a universal welfare state, which crowds out the need for private revolutionary charity.
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If you seriously wanted communism you would ally with the KKK and far right anarchist groups in overthrowing the federal government. Of course you won't do that because you're not actually communist, you support existing power structures more than you disagree with them, your goals are 100% reformist and you yourself don't even want communism and use it solely as a rhetorical gimmick.
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I mean, I'm not even kidding. Very few if any communist revolutions have succeeded with a mass base. The Bolsheviks were a small movement of about a million people when they took power. They could not have staged their coup without the general instability following WWI.

The rest of the communist revolutions took place in similar conditions or were backed by an existing communist country. Establishing a tight vanguard and destabilizing the government are far more important than improving your brand image through charity work or whatever.

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People treat communist revolution as some kind of cutesy trot thing, but its not. If you seriously want a revolution you have to be powerhungry and ruthless. A race war is a far more effective route to "communism" than any of the hippie bullshit discussed in the LF thread.
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bound2hostageXchange posted:

universal welfare state

america doesn't have a universal welfare state.

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america doesn't have a universal welfare state.



It also has the most spastic and extremist feminist movement in the western world, coincidence?

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Got someone to respond.

Thread == complete success
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political car tune
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Really though, if you were serious about revolution, dismantling the welfare state and destabilizing the government would be the least implausible way to achieve it.
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Mike Nelson here.
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congratulations on getting someone to respond.
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