• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    1 month ago

    This highlights just how infantile the idea of a spontaneous revolution is. Large portions of the western left think that you just need to have a big rally, throw out the government you don’t like, and build some sort of anarcho utopia. And of course, any actually organic protests quickly fizzle the way we saw with the occupy movement and George Floyd protests. These were absolutely massive in scale, but they had no staying power. People came out shouted some slogans, and then went to back home after a few days.

    The big irony here is that the US has effectively adopted a vanguardist approach to running color revolutions where they groom and fund an ideologically aligned vanguard for many years, and then use it to create an ideologically aligned movement that is able to topple the government.

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      It is as though the capitalists intuitively understand dialectical materialism and its inherent graduality when it comes to building up movements.