Memes

you can’t guillotine anyone

you can go back a couple chapters in the history books and they did just that multiple times. it's an unfortunate and scary proposition, but you can't deny that it works.

There is a reason we identify bourgeoisie through their direct connection to the system of production as owners of the means of production. You can't swap out elite for "any other group" because the reasoning would be gone. "Any other group" is not directly responsible for the impoverishment of the imperial periphery, for their acute destitution. "Any other group" is not funding paramilitary death squads to control resources that make number go up. "Any other group" doesn't knowingly uphold the system that makes homelessness necessary. "Any other group" doesn't regularly commit genocides. If you are comfortable trying to vote these people out of existence feel free to walk into that swamp but don't try convincing others to do so.

I understand your fear. I am also scared. I'm deathly fucking terrified of revolution. I am terrified of what the state will do to me for daring to challenge them. I am terrified of what they will do to the people I love. I am terrified of what it will take for the average American to fight back. I desperately want to run and flee the country but we are beyond that epoch. There is no safe place to run to. It is cowardice to blind yourself and believe we can simply ask them to stop. Hell, it isn't just cowardice, it's dangerous. The longer we wait to end this system the more people it will slaughter. I fear the state but my fear is outweighed by the shame of doing nothing while I watch it commit unspeakable acts in my name.

Revolution is not a tea party or a bed of roses. Any revolutionary will tell you this, all of them know it. I know in my heart I won't live to my parents age. I know in my heart I will see and experience horrors they have never suffered. Most likely I die a miserable lonely death not even knowing the fates of those I love. And I'm angry about it.

Collapse is already coming, climate change is going to fuck us. If we are going to collapse anyway why not revolt and save those who can be saved. They certainly won't be saved by our current leadership.

No, they are not. The Roman Empire got collapse without a revolution, for example.

We’re not there yet.

Which is exactly why a revolution hasn't happened yet. Revolutions do not occur until every other option has been tried and the people find their circumstances utterly intolerable. I advocate for revolution because we will eventually reach that point and need to be prepared for when that revolutionary potential is ripe. I need people to understand that the class division of society cannot be overcome by using the tools handed to us by the ruling class, that we must make our own through a vanguard party that can turn revolutionary potential into directed revolutionary action. I am not saying REVOLUTION NOW because we are not organized enough and the national proletariat are not so desperate. I am saying revolution is the only way however, as awful as it will inevitably be.

Edit: i want to stress that premature revolutions are dangerous. The premature revolution in the Weimar Republic contributed to the rise of fascism. Which is again why professional revolutionaries in the form of a vanguard party is necessary. We must have people who make revolution their life so that they understand how ready we are in a way the average person does not.

You are not going to get any diplomatic compromises if elites don't believe you can guillotine them. Everything is just going to get worse until you get either collapse or revolution.