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The only reason you wouldn't want to break things right now means you still think there is good in the system. The system is working as intended and absolutely needs to be broken so something better can be made.
Alternatively, there can be the simple recognition that breaking the system that exists will result in a mass casualty event as current systems keeping the masses alive break down, and the resulting collapse will be capitalized on (lol) by your local warlord.
I'm sure the local warlord will be a great bastion of anti authoritarian praxis.
you've been boiled too slow
What an astute observation! I wouldn't even describe it as a boil, maybe a light simmer if anything. Because you know what? My life is pretty nice.
So now that we have established that fact, perhaps it would be prudent to consider how you reach the majority of the population that is in my boat (not literally, I mean, when I'm on my boat I'm generally reading a book on my own). But I mean the ones that think like this and don't read books by Kropotkin.
yep indeed
Brother your goverment, democrat or republican, does a mass casualty event abroad every other fucking week, when will you stop with the "me, me, me, me" attitude ffs.
When I become Jesus Christ, savior, and responsible for the collective sins of humanity.
Until then, I'm responsible for myself, and will act accordingly.
A mass casualty event? Brother we've been in the mass extinction event for years, and every day we don't destroy the system that created it is another day the odds of the human species surviving the next couple centuries continues to fall towards zero.
Yes, I am certain that your life will begin improving measurably when the food runs out.
Revolutions have had a history of dramatically improving living conditions for everyone as soon as the old system is abolished. The Russian revolution ended famine and doubled life expectancy.
Revolutions also don't have to result in violence (think of a mass strike across the entire country that never ends). But when capitalism gets desperate it will start a civil war if that is its only hope to maintain the old system.
And think about the mass suffering caused by mass poverty, genocide, minority oppression, political polarisation, endless war, boring work and the list goes on. If one revolution is all it takes to install a democratic society and fix so many of our problems, I know I'm on board.
Just one more election bro, I know we have The Camps and everyone on earth has organs laden with microplastic and we've killed fully one third of the forests and the oceans are turning to acid, but now is not the time for radical change bro
I'm sure your life will (moderately, bipartisanly) improve when the oceanic algae is all dead and you can no longer breathe. At least then you won't have the air to speak this slug-brained nonsense, and I'll only have to listen to our gasping coughs as we wait for the harm reduction to kick in.
There are already thousands and more dying by the second with the current system. There is already a mass causality event and it will continue to get worse as the current system makes the world less and less inhabitable.
And we don't have to have a "local warlord" the idea that people can put something better in place then fascism is ironically a right wing talking point. Though I blame the propaganda that has caused us to view our fellow as a enemy instead a comrade. But that's a whole other point.
Correct on all counts.
And yet, the reality is that the collapse of society will lead to even more casualties. The other reality is that I don't know of a single collapsed society that became altruistic, and did not devolve into local warlord killing each other.
In order to effectively break the system you need organized Revolution, and for that it must be supported by the masses, and for mass support it must help people, meaning the Revolution must be building something like a state within itself to support it's own Revolution, so when it is big enough, when it finally has overthrown the Capitalists, it will already be prepared to take over as a governing body. The only chaos then is in the Revolution itself, but a small moment of bloody violence in plane sight is nothing compared to the massive death, destruction, torture and despair, that the system does constantly out of sight, hidden away (as much as it even can hide it), that the small by comparison but more in sight and quicker violence of a Revolution which will finally end it.
Okay. Well, when this glorious mythic Revolution begins, we will see what happens. Until the second coming of the Revolution, were stuck in reality. Although it seems some of us might be stuck is a certain level of Revolution Revolution worship.
Revolution.
See, because the anglosphere is drenched in leftover christian thought, and because liberals fundamentally have a magical view of the world and society, you see revolution as something akin to the rapture: some grand external event to be prayed for and waited on. Meanwhile, since communists have a scientific view of the world and society, we see revolution as a machine to be built. What you're doing is the equivalent of walking up to a shipyard and going "Pffft, good luck magically manifesting your glorious ships, idiot." Just a fundamental misunderstanding of how history develops. Movements just spontaneously arise at full strength out of nowhere in the movies and video games we all grew up on, so of course reality must work the same way, right?
You want to talk about "we're in reality"? Yeah, we're in the reality where the working class in many countries have already achieved the building of a revolution. That's a concrete fact, not some article of faith you can pessimistically handwave away to justify your continued murderous apathy. We live in reality, so roll up your sleeves and get to work with the rest of us.
Okay. Well, when all your hard work leads to actual tangible results that are better than the status quo, then we'll talk.
Until then, less blabbing and more sleeve rolling
"Build a revolution for me and then I'll show up after"
Consumer brain is a disease on par with Alzheimer's. You'll never be anything but a dead weight to any social organization with that attitude. Look around yourself, opportunities to build have never been more abundant. I've helped create a recurring mutual aid event in the community where we exhange food, clothing and services, much of it homegrown and handmade. We have regular self defense training and educational lectures from people of different expertise. We're connected with the local ICE watch org, a growing anti data-center movement and Palestinian orgs for miles. We are beginning to host study sessions and draw up outlines for political education. We even have a direct member with a shot at city council, which would make our job even easier than it is now, which, I gotta tell you, is pretty easy these days. People are fucking done with all of it.
All of this and more can be yours. This is what I have achieved in less than one year of really, actively studying and trying after having spent the previous decade as a depressed addict. The only thing holding you back is this learned helplessness, this ingrained idea that someone else has to do it first because you are incapable.
Okay. I guess your world doesn't have a place for me then. If it's camps either way, I'd rather do it the easy way.
Hahaha holy shit dude what the fuck is wrong with you
Me: "You can actually build a better life with your friends and neighbors, here's what I've managed to achieve so far"
You: "Oh so you're gonna HUNT ME FOR SPORT? There's no PLACE for me in your SICK WORLD, huh? Guess I'll just support the camps then!"
I am glad that you were able to build a community of your friends and neighbors.
I do not have the time or resources to do so.
So you labeled that as me being a consumer brained idiot on par with Alzheimer's. Now you're surprised that my general demeanor towards you is negative?
I'm surprised you just openly declared your support for concentration camps, usually it takes more to get you guys to do that.
It wont just magically happen on it's own, if we only wait for it we are more likely to see the inside of a US death camp as the Capitalist rulling class is getting scared and desperate and have been laying the foundation for the people to be moved further into Fascism for a long time. It is possible only with our willingness to organise together within one or more (cooperating) Revolutionary Parties to learn and use Marxist Leninist Theory to slowly awaken Class Consciousness within the population and prepare the way for a successful Revolution supported by the newly awakened masses. This has succeeded many times already, even though the USSR unfortunately collapsed, Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and the People's Republic of China are still standing against all the Capitalist Imperialist hostile odds, and China in particularly is more technologically and scientifically advanced then the US by now, and have provided enormous improvement to the lives of everyone they get involved with. It is why the Capitalist Imperialist "Core Countries" (Global North) are so desperate to smear them with endless lies and nonsense not based in reality or evidence, and the CIA/MI6/MOSSAD assert their control and spread such misinformation via "news" (Propaganda is basically just another name for this give or take), Hollywood, Social Media AI bots, Youtube algorithmic control, and even our very Video Games (do people believe Call of Duty is politically neutral).
With all of that they shape our very view of reality to make us support things against our own interests, and to avoid learning anything real about the countries that threaten Capital.
Edit: I was a little confusing about the point on propaganda, I mean that it is more or less another word for news, mostly involving the handing out of pamflets or leaflets, it has been twisted into being the same as saying "misinformation" very likely as a way of discrediting bottom up, glass roots style movements (what the working class has access to as a way of communicating among the populace) while leaving the Capitalists corporate "news" reputationally intact.