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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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[โ€“] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Because that has a severe impact on your reach and your ability to continue build the revolutionary movement.

If the conditions force you to go underground then so be it. I strongly believe and i have said before that any anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist leftist organization must be prepared for that eventuality and expect it. But to self-impose that on yourself when the conditions have not yet reached the level of a revolutionary situation is to self-sabotage. Lenin spoke about these sorts of strategic choices and about recognizing when it is more advantageous to work within the system as opposed to outside of it.

Lenin wrote extensively about how to organize under conditions of harsh state repression, because that became a necessity for the Bolsheviks at some point. But there were also times when he advocated for communists to work within the bourgeois system. A vanguard party must know how to do both, but most importantly it must know how to correctly read the political situation and understand what the present conditions allow and call for.

And in fact, to some extent, a vanguard party can and should do both simultaneously. You can maintain your open and legal activities while also having cells organizing underground work with the necessary operational secrecy, provided that you properly insulate one from the other to maintain deniability and prevent the underground activities from being used as a pretext to shut down your legal operations. This is something that revolutionaries and resistance movements have always done.

Here are some works of Lenin that may help you understand this topic in greater detail:

The Illegal Party and Legal Work (1912)

Our Immediate Task (1899)

An Urgent Question (1899)

The Principal Stages in the History of Bolshevism (1920)

Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments? (1920)

The Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats (1897)

And here is a compilation of Lenin's views from dozens of different works:

Lenin - On Parliamentary Struggle

I find particularly Lenin's early writings to be the most relevant when it comes to how to organize and what to prioritize at this very early stage of leftist revolutionary activity in the US and other imperial core countries. Because we have to admit that there is a long road still to go and we are only just at the beginning, and that we have not yet reached the sort of conditions that existed in Russia on the eve of the October Revolution, or even the first failed Russian Revolution of 1905.

If you want to gain more insight into how Lenin and other revolutionaries lived and worked during those early days i can also recommend perusing

Krupskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin (1926)

[โ€“] Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

But im saying the situation has already reached that point