We should remember that there wasn’t even a socialist party in Russia till 1898. That’s 19 years before the revolution and that party had a major split in 1903 that created the Bolshevik party. Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky were just the shit posters of their time. There were lots of other voices and ideas floating around. I’m sure many people condemned them for not being grounded in the real world the same way some of todays leftists get called “terminally online.”
Say Trump declared an end to term limits and imprisoned opposition in few states. Then invaded Canada and Mexico while setting up concentration camps. Russia and China back the Mexicans (lets face it canada would probably buckle in weeks) Americans start getting conscripted. War starts getting protracted, Trump fires generals for incompetence or because they are too competent and he is getting paranoid of them. The replacement generals see the insanity and decide they need to act to end the meaningless war and trump. So you get a coup maybe the socialists take over maybe you get a junta. Junta is followed by elections at some point, maybe that cycle repeats a few times and maybe when its over its socialist.
This could all happen in the space 20 years. I wont say “its likely” but it isn’t without precedent.
We should remember that there wasn’t even a socialist party in Russia till 1898. That’s 19 years before the revolution and that party had a major split in 1903 that created the Bolshevik party. Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky were just the shit posters of their time. There were lots of other voices and ideas floating around. I’m sure many people condemned them for not being grounded in the real world the same way some of todays leftists get called “terminally online.”
Say Trump declared an end to term limits and imprisoned opposition in few states. Then invaded Canada and Mexico while setting up concentration camps. Russia and China back the Mexicans (lets face it canada would probably buckle in weeks) Americans start getting conscripted. War starts getting protracted, Trump fires generals for incompetence or because they are too competent and he is getting paranoid of them. The replacement generals see the insanity and decide they need to act to end the meaningless war and trump. So you get a coup maybe the socialists take over maybe you get a junta. Junta is followed by elections at some point, maybe that cycle repeats a few times and maybe when its over its socialist.
This could all happen in the space 20 years. I wont say “its likely” but it isn’t without precedent.
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Nothing was ever achieved by people writing and sharing political theory and analysis of current material conditions.
And people definitely shouldn’t read what is to be done.