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Im never in my life going to go to a fucking protest. I'm just more and more convinced the very concept exists to waste the time and energy of people who want to change society. No protest has ever done shit unless it's made the ruling class ACTUALLY AFRAID enough to feel they HAD TO respond or get the guillotine. When's the last time that happened? I'm 34 now and all I've seen my entire life is decades of people cramming themselves into the streets to get ignored, brutalized and then arrested for nothing (if not outright murdered). I think protests are explicitly counter revolutionary because that's all they funnel actual revolutionary people into, getting their shit kicked in and arrested. Having an arrest record or crippling injury isn't going to help anyone (except the fascists when they decide to finish the job)
No fucking wonder nothing's ever getting done when the best we can hope to organize is some fucked to death electoralism or performance art where we all go get beat up and arrested
yeah because sitting at home on your ass instead is really going to terrify the bourgeoisie. Wouldn't want to waste your precious time and energy that you're using to organize your armed revolutionary cell, oh what's that, you don't have one? Why not? What is to be done about that?
Yes coddled western liberals addicted to 70 years of cheap treats still suck but it isn't even that hard to just show up to their protests for a couple hours and talk to people about more radical action. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback recently when I do that, and the dissent rhetoric overall is slowly shifting left with decaying material conditions, especially among the libs who have been organizing these things for a while. PSL and DSA with their better theory and organizational power are usually present at these things agitating the people as well.
These are the battles of a war of position to build a counter-hegemony that will form the popular base of a revolutionary war of movement one day. Not every battle is decisive and they don't have to be. Think I'm just bullshitting you with Gramscian theory? how about the May Fourth Movement Was good enough for the CPC to get their start, but it took them nearly 50 fucking years and a world war to finally seize power, and they nearly all got killed several times along the way. This communism shit ain't easy, but if the masses are with us our victory is inevitable.
Get your friends to come and talk theory with them at the rally, enjoy the weather and stupid lib's signs, start some radical chants, have some fun with it instead of complaining that Lenin isn't here yet to tell you to go outside and loot a police station. It only gets more difficult from here.
friends? in this economy?
i need a gun to get anyone where i live to wear a mask
I hate how real this is