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Someone told me today that acts of terror achieve nothing. I had to remind him that the whole reason we were having this conversation was because of a country that was built on acts of terror.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

There's really no substantial way in which the differences in conditions between the US today and Russia in the 1910s make it more suitable for adventurism as a strategy.

In fact, the present conditions mean adventurism has higher costs and less benefit. Any propaganda value of adventurist acts is more easily neutralized because the media has complete control over the narrative (sometimes slips a bit but is recuperated or memoryholed). Higher surveillance makes an adventurist operation less likely to be successful. The government has more legitimacy than Nicholas II's.

If I'm being as balanced as possible, I could possibly see the value of adventurism being that all other options are poor anyway, so why not gamble? But I'd still argue having more comrades alive and free where they can be ready to act should better opportunities arise is always better than contradicting the lessons past revolutionaries have learned out of desperation.

You can participate in creating some kind of safety mechanism for your community, keep tabs on which people aren't joining orgs yet but are sympathetic, agitate people you talk with. None of these things are revolutionary, but they'll be useful once revolutionary organization is more viable.