Assume for our hypothetical we have a situation where you are faced with an unbeatable, seemingly unbeatable enemy, and you have tried two different approaches.
A leaderless, horizontal approach, and a direct democratic centralist style leadership with a actual figurehead and leader. Both of these approaches have failed. What is the third approach?
So there is a lot to unpack here. First of all a way out is possible, I have no doubt about it, when I think things are hopeless I tend to think about the Chinese revolution, and how FUCKING DREADFUL their conditions were and they still prevail, we have the truth on our side and that is no small thing. Second that’s why we need to be with the people, for every person that does well on DoorDash or OnlgyFans, there are a hundred that are doing that as a last resort and that are hanging by a thread. And I do think there is some potential for a Union movement, if not union in the classical sense, some unionlike organization, the important part is to listen to the people in that condition, we are taken by generalized notions, that is what is amplified, the: Gig economy is awesome thing, but if you look at hard data, things are fucked, for most everyone, and those people, in the absence of a true class struggle revolutionary movement, they are often co-opted by pseudo revolutionary movements like fascism. That is why we need to be among the people with the people and listen to their struggles see the shape of their suffering, and fit our revolutionary ideas to their reality, tell it in their language, make them part of the talk. To think that the hegemonic discourse is lost, is both untrue and counter productive, we do not have the answers, and sometimes we not even got the questions right, we need to be with the people of our own nations, to see what are the questions for their reality that need answering, and show them that the only way to truly answer that, is together and fighting for everyone. Cause no scapegoat enemy, no temporary measure no individual success is gonna change anything, is only as a collective that things work. Our struggle is complicated and sometimes it the way forward is not clear until we get more experience, but the way to do it is trying, learn with the past and move to the future, we will triumph, of that I have no doubt, it’s only a matter of building the how and the when.