DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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11·1 day agoMost people in any society are fundamentally apolitical and don’t really give a shit about the holders or application of power so long as they’re relatively comfortable. Seizing power is and has always been a process of building a core group of ideologically committed revolutionaries, overthrowing the existing power structures, beating out competitors to filling that power vacuum, and then providing well enough for everyone else that nobody turns around and does the same to you.
If US comrades manage to build the infrastructure and framework of revolution and connect with enough of the average populace, they will win. This is as true in the US now as it was in Russia in 1917 or vast swaths of southeast Asia in the 40s/50s.
There was a greentext a while back from some 4chan shithead that was convinced that they knew how to win WW2 as Germany, and that was one of their brilliant armchair observations: “Don’t spend a bunch of time and resources getting bogged down sieging a major city, simply take it without a siege”
I’m assuming in this case they meant that a bunch of freshly radicalized burgerreichers will simply point at their foreheads and go “seize the means of production, simple!” and get gunned down by feds because it didn’t occur to them that there might be some pushback to such an event.
1·19 days agoI know RiotDoll already offered some reading material, but it’s worth reinforcing:
The US has always been (one of) the guiding hand(s) of fascism, from day one. The Nazis literally sent people to the US to learn how we built a racialized caste system through Jim Crow (and were horrified when they learned about the one drop rule, because even they thought that was too racist). American capitalists made millions off of slave labor in the Third Reich and lobbied the Allied Air forces to avoid bombing factories that were producing weapons for the Nazis because they owned them. When the war ended, the US protected and rehired massive chunks of the Nazi and Japanese command to head up NASA, NATO, the South Korean military, etc.
The only point in favor of the US not being explicitly fascist is that it managed to export the crises and downsides of capitalism internationally to avoid the internal crises that lead to fascism traditionally because Americans domestically enjoy enough treats to avoid class consciousness, and even that’s breaking down now so who knows if that will hold.
Pluto’s not a planet because we’ve discovered dozens of other dwarf planets in the solar system, and at some point it makes sense to make a cutoff of how big an object has to be to be considered a full sized planet lest we have 100 of the things floating around and making third-grade science courses look like learning Mandarin tones.