I don’t want to write an essay (I probably will though, it’s in our red blood😰) but still, I was thinking about the recent labor movement revival and… Though my opinion is positive… Like really so, I still think about the fact that without a vanguard party, this is little less than a dent in our super globalized neo imperialist system, then I thought about the recent tragedy in Syria and Turkey, we didn’t manage to get the criminal sanctions lifted, the aid has to come from friends of Siria (non aligned countries and socialist countries) then I thought about the fact that after 1959, no other socialist revolution succeeded (viet-nam revolution succeeded before, in the North) so, our vixroires are all in the third world and glory to our comrades in there for that but, am I a doomer for thinking that we are doomed over here in the first? The situation is dire in my opinion but I hope is a little bit brighter than I imagined.
I could write many lines more but its bedtime over here in pizzaspaghettifascismland 😪
(it’s actually 3 am but I have insomnia)
Well the first thing I want to address is the Syria aspect. We are not there yet. It is regretful watching others help while we cannot but it is what it is. We can’t run if we don’t know how to walk or even stand, those come first.
On the vanguard aspect I will say vanguards are also similar to running before walking, they do not always just appear and organize the working class. If one looks at the history of the Russian Revolution, spontaneous strikes and a non and less political working class movement existed long before the Bolsheviks organized. The entire question of the party was formed through the struggles of the 1800s. So this is not something to worry too much about. We have a few small parties that are active, so we are not that far behind. Vanguards after all are chosen by not selected for the people. This is more of a question of development of the US proletariat and considering conditions are fraught I would stay cautiously nervous but give the parties and our class some space to work and grow.
The last part of your post concerns a time gap. I don’t consider time an indicator of much in the regard of revolutionary onset based solely on time distance and not differing conditions of each instance of time. Allow me to liberalize this to make a point; before Paris, there was never a communist revolution… millennias went by, then things changed. Now let’s look at why this was the case. Well, before the Paris Commune, the stages of development weren’t set to advance towards socialism but to various other stages of civil economic development instead. So why did things change in the 60s? Social democracy was implemented, principled Soviet leadership was couped (so-called “de-Stalinization” which softened Soviet stances and paved the way for reaction throughout the bloc), and from the 70s onward the petrodollar and neoliberal world government leveraged predatory debt and an international dependency on basic necessities to control the global south. In other words, the conditions changed and socialism was not longer possible under these conditions. However, now, again, the conditions have changed, making socialism possible once again. Why is this? Well for 1 thing social democracy was always just a bandaid solution. It is far too costly to the profitability of the capitalist system to maintain this form for too long. As far as the world government and petrodollar schemes are concerned the answer there is the contradiction between bourgeois nations. As we see Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, and others answering that call now.
