What absolutely baffles me is: how TF does anyone who purports to be a leftist say they don’t support tankies?
Exactly… how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?
Revolution via the ballot box is by far the rarest form of socialist uprising and can anyone provide an example of communists taking power that did NOT involve violent struggle?
I’m not advocating for violence but, pacifism as an absolute moral precept is a joke. If you listen to liberals, you’d believe that it was solely MLKs and Gandhi’s peaceful ways that brought about change. History shows completely the opposite, but is it any wonder that the West lionizes “peaceful protest” while strongly admonishing any form of direct action?
Exactly… how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?
“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?” etc. etc. It’s all intellectual entertainment, and pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, and lifestyle identitarianism with those types. They might as well be playing SimCity.
Lenin’s insight tells us, the revolutionary society is a direct child of the revolution process. Thinking about a socialist future without focusing on an actual process that takes us there is utopianism. That is what makes “leftists” unserious.
Exactly… how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?
This is what I mean by the Bellamyite delusion. He essentially believed that the transition from capitalism to socialism would not only be peaceful, but natural. The people can just sit on their asses and wait until the capitalists are done consuming themselves. That is the ghost that haunted American progressive movements for the last hundred years. They don’t believe in revolutions; their ideal form of government is a momentary retreat from capitalism (i.e. New Deal era) or Nordic welfare capitalism, both of which are utterly impossible to achieve in modern US. These people have good hearts, but it just seems impossible to wake them up from establishment slop.
Also, the Nordic model is disintegrating in real time. Much like the new deal, any concessions won from the capitalist class can be rolled back or negated without a dictatorship of the proletariat.
western leftists will never have my respect.
What absolutely baffles me is: how TF does anyone who purports to be a leftist say they don’t support tankies?
Exactly… how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?
Revolution via the ballot box is by far the rarest form of socialist uprising and can anyone provide an example of communists taking power that did NOT involve violent struggle?
I’m not advocating for violence but, pacifism as an absolute moral precept is a joke. If you listen to liberals, you’d believe that it was solely MLKs and Gandhi’s peaceful ways that brought about change. History shows completely the opposite, but is it any wonder that the West lionizes “peaceful protest” while strongly admonishing any form of direct action?
Insert Einstein here because he “bootlicked” Lenin lol
“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?” etc. etc. It’s all intellectual entertainment, and pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, and lifestyle identitarianism with those types. They might as well be playing SimCity.
Lenin’s insight tells us, the revolutionary society is a direct child of the revolution process. Thinking about a socialist future without focusing on an actual process that takes us there is utopianism. That is what makes “leftists” unserious.
This is what I mean by the Bellamyite delusion. He essentially believed that the transition from capitalism to socialism would not only be peaceful, but natural. The people can just sit on their asses and wait until the capitalists are done consuming themselves. That is the ghost that haunted American progressive movements for the last hundred years. They don’t believe in revolutions; their ideal form of government is a momentary retreat from capitalism (i.e. New Deal era) or Nordic welfare capitalism, both of which are utterly impossible to achieve in modern US. These people have good hearts, but it just seems impossible to wake them up from establishment slop.
You are spot on.
Also, the Nordic model is disintegrating in real time. Much like the new deal, any concessions won from the capitalist class can be rolled back or negated without a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Bozos are about to lose their universal healthcare and pension after their governments increase the NATO funding.