Don’t participate then. Don’t side with the forces of capital and reaction and I guess if you don’t want to die don’t side with the revolution either. Just hide in your home, ignore politics or move out to the woods.

The fact is people will die in any meaningful revolution, many good revolutionaries, many comrades will lose their lives to bring progress. Truth be told many non-participants will too just as inevitable accidental deaths from fighting, stray munitions and so on. In the imperial core especially I expect decades of terrorist attacks, bombings, biological, chemical, maybe even nuclear terror to try and break the will of people, to punish and avenge by fascist sleeper cells.

All humans die eventually. It is our fate. We are on this coil for 60 to maybe on the outside 100 years of life at best then we’re gone. Historically humans died for many horrible reasons, diseases we can now cure, pointless wars for land and capital, in child-birth, from random defects present at birth or arising from natural bodily processes. Many of them died very young, having lived hard lives knowing only ignorance, superstition. How privileged in that respect we are that if we die, we knew Marxism, we knew materialism, we knew the wonders humans are capable of achieving. That we die with hope not fear.