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How will we start a revolution in the United States (lemmygrad.ml)
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The left is far to divided and needs a central leader. The advantage the liberals and conservatives have are that their parties are not fractured. The two party system also prevents any way to win democratically so the only way to do this would be a revolution. But to have a revolution you must have the people on your side and Americans tend to look at a central leader like a president as the representation of a movement. How should we unite all of the different leftists under one leader so that there can be a united opposition. We also need to get more people to understand that currently America is not a true democracy and that the only way to fix this is with violence. Currently we need far more comrades like Luigi to remove the bourgeoisie with violence. If there are people with nothing left to lose some brave comrade should give them a weapon so they can do something.

For those of us living in the USA discussing theory won't change anything. Only action will. United we will win, fractured we will fall.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago

I appreciate your enthusiasm, comrade, but there are 3 major flaws with this frame of thinking.

  1. There's a huge focus on waiting for or creating a cult of personality around a single person, ie Great Man Theory. This is idealism.

One of the biggest reasons why Marxist movements succeed where other movements failed is in the adoption of dialectical and historical materialism as our scientific outlook on social change. Idealism traps us in incorrect practice, it isn't great men that move history, but evolving class dynamics based on our surrounding material conditions. As such, worker organizing takes priority over waiting for a "great man" to save us.

  1. There's a huge emphasis on wanting adventurist, individual acts of terrorism, rather than organizing for dual power and creating a cohesive working class movement.

One of the most important questions of the Russian revolutionary groups was whether or not to focus on assassinations, or on organizing. The SRs relied on terrorism, the Bolsheviks relied on integrating with the broader working class. It's easy to see which was correct looking back, but more than anything it was already possible to arrive at correct analysis through adopting a materialist outlook. Assassinations do not transfer power, because capitalists hold power as a class and not as individuals.

  1. There's a rejection of theory in favor of only acting.

The SRs also rejected theory, preferring instead to act. However, again, they were wrong. Theory is important because it informs practice, which in turn sharpens theory. They mutually correct and reinforce each other. We must take the lessons of our predecessors to heart, learn from them, and act accordingly!

If you want a place to start with theory, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list. Check it out!