In theory of course. And please refrain from telling me why a global revolution would not work.
- Jury nullification. That’s a start. Dont vote guilty on certain crimes. You know what Im saying.
- Small acts of resistance. Just stop fully cooperating with the 1%. Spit in their soup.
- Large acts of resistance …
Fortunately you won’t have to wait long. Either we get a revolution in the next 20 years or every non-1%er dies.
Dies, or is enslaved?
Same thing really imo
Start by getting rid of your own debt, cutting down on purchases to the bare minimum, and saving up enough cash that losing work won’t affect you. Then start helping others do the same.
If no one is buying anything, there’s no government control.
It would require several simultaneous grass roots movements globally rising up, or the complete collapse of the global economy.
Trump’s on his way to obliterating the petrodollar …
So how would you get those going?
Well, you could launch a war with Iran, for one. That’s looking like a good way to destroy the global economy.
were doing it already, climate change
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The global economical system with its built in assumption of infinite growth is on a collision course with the material realities of the world. So it will either change drastically, or collapse. The latter seems much more likely.
I think cracks will form and new, more local, decentralized and equitable frameworks will sprout from those cracks as people help each other, because the system can’t or wont help them.
Find a common goal that catches peoples interest and is widely agreeable/acceptable but goes against current politics.
Castrating people in the Epstein files?
That is an excellent question.
I am eager to hear your excellent answer. No thought about a better world is a wasted one, gimme gimme.
I am neither capable of creating international uprisings or the destruction of the machine of capitalism. I don’t know why you would expect me to know this.
But you are capable of thinking about it. That’s all we are doing here.
Why don’t you start by an example?
Many organizations with loose leadership but all with common goals.
That way taking out a leader or even cluster of the movement won’t stop it but just fuel increased determination of the others.
At least that’s what I heard is one way that one side can win against enemies with more tech , weapons, and troops than they.
Also. Let’s not downplay guerilla tactics.
They have always been effective against a bigger enemy.
We’d need to educate enough people world wide on effective tactics and preparation for a global general strike (info on how to do that here), and coordinate a single date for it to begin globally, which would essentially shut down the world economy.
With enough education on how to implement decentralized horizontal societies beforehand, we could effectively cast off capitalism without falling into the authoritarian pitfalls of the past, much like Catalonia was able to do in the 1930’s..
The end result of that would be the effective elimination of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and resource scarcity after implementing a gift-economy, not unlike it’s portrayed in The Dispossessed. This would also mean all of us would only need to work about 2 to 3 months out of the year to maintain the base needs of everyone, with the rest of the year being free time to do with as you please. The lack of profit motive would also set us up to stop the progression of climate change before it destroys humanity and most other life on earth.
Good frog! Not only giving sources and stuff but also putting O.G. Ursula in the mix. I like you a lot.
Global coordination seems to be a big hurdle that needs to be tackled. Really wonder how wed go about that.
Every place that participates would need their critical industries to be unionized already with a non-corporate captured union. They would then need to get in contact with global union organizing groups, like the IWW or IWA-AIT, the first of which is a global union, and the latter is an organization that can help coordinate the radical unions willing to commit to a general strike.
However, it will be up to the people who form the grassroots unions in each country to push coordinating with those groups to develop a global plan, and it will take some time for that to build up enough to be viable. Though we are also rapidly running out of time to prevent domino effects from happening due to climate change, so we really need to get this happening double time.
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Which link? They all seem to work on my end.
Just deleted due to fixed. It was the general strike one. Tried it several times just took me to no where.
Great book recommendation on that page. I can’t read online. Gonna have to order it in print but it feels counter productive.
It’s not counter productive if you lend it to your friends too :)
Also work for me.
We can dance if we want to!
Revolutions are context dependent. You can’t have a global revolution because it covers too many contexts. Global revolutions that do happen will be based on the contemporaneous development of local revolutions, that is to say a global revolution is a descriptive bottom up phenomenon, not a top down one.
You focus on your context. You figure out what that means. You do your part. Let other people do their part. You may find yourself as part of a global phenomenon, you may not.
Also, think about what a revolution is. It’s a replacement of a power structure. Globally, you could have a revolution against the UN, maybe. WTO? IMF? But you would have to get through your local power structure first.
So you focus on replacing the power structure in your context. Others focus on replacing the power structure in their context. And that’s how it goes.
Violence. You want a revolution, you’re gonna have to kill some people.
That’s not true; there are plenty of logistics roles needed!
In seriousness; bloodless (or relatively bloodless) revolutions exist, but almost every time the ruling class is threatened, they choose the bloody route to cling onto power by any means necessary. I’ve seen my friends beaten by police just for protesting against the Zionist Regime, and that’s not even close to a revolution. So for all intents and purposes, we must accept that the necessary changes to society to fix all this, will end up violent.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1849/01/01.htm
England seems to be the rock which breaks the revolutionary waves, the country where the new society is stifled before it is born. England dominates the world market. Any upheaval in economic relations in any country of the European continent, in the whole European continent without England, is a storm in a teacup. Industrial and commercial relations within each nation are governed by its intercourse with other nations, and depend on its relations with the world market. But the world market is dominated by England and England is dominated by the bourgeoisie.
Thus, the liberation of Europe, whether brought about by the struggle of the oppressed nationalities for their independence or by overthrowing feudal absolutism, depends on the successful uprising of the French working class. Every social upheaval in France, however, is bound to be thwarted by the English bourgeoisie, by Great Britain’s industrial and commercial domination of the world. Every partial social reform in France or on the European continent as a whole, if designed to be lasting, is merely a pious wish. Only a world war can break old England, as only this can provide the Chartists, the party of the organized English workers, with the conditions for a successful rising against their powerful oppressors. Only when the Chartists head the English government will the social revolution pass from the sphere of utopia to that of reality.
For england read “the imperial hegemon”, for france read “the link in the imperialist chain that breaks”
Revolutionary dictatorship gotta press the reactionary hegemon hard and fight a world war against them. Otherwise there will be no global revolution and no communism, just endless counterrevolutions forever
To coordinate that many people, you would need either:
- a political party that would coordinate global actions via some sort of hierarchy
- a disaster of some kind that affected enough of the population that the entire world could be convinced to act all at once, or at least in quick succession, but still didn’t take out all of our communication structures so decentralized communication would still be possible.
We saw how Covid worked out so I think the likelihood of everyone not only acting at once, but also in unison, because of a disaster is quite small without a party to coordinate. There need to be constraints on behavior with levers of power to pull and enforce those constraints in order to get literally billions of people to do the same thing at the same time. I don’t see a way around it.
Start by finding a general consensus over where we should go, the rest will follow.
How would you do that?
Wish I knew, I’ve given it more thought than I’d admit irl.
I have a suggestion :)
Hey we are just brainstorming here. Share your thoughts with us.
Start small: make your bed, brush your teeth, do your homework every day.
Bed made, teeth brushed, homework done. And now?
Bring out the guillotines!
https://youtu.be/XjBOSAk5BDk - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise? ✧ Brother ‘D’ w/ Collective Effort
You would need to enlighten enough people to wake them up without making then feel uncomfortable they’ve been believing a lie. Nobody likes to feel foolish for what they’ve believed in.
But fighting for a common cause helps to unite people by putting aside their differences.
Also, REALLY good start is get people OFF of major tech. Hurt their profits by reducing the content they profit off of (selling user data), which in turn reduces ad revenue too. Then they simultaneously they can’t afford to buy out politicians who make favorable policies for big tech and social media.
The more we can reduce big tech, the less all the data brokers can profit from since a major data contributor vanishes. Eventually, we gain the proper people in office who are pro people and not technology, and eventually the people win.
Other battles are big pharma and the auto industry as both also utilize data brokers. The only way that gets fixed falls back to the right people in leadership roles.
