So I get on Piefed, bc there apparently the tankie problem is more addressed, and 50% of what I see is tons of posts calling for violent solutions to the fascist craze going on in the US right now, but not a single person anywhere calling out that these posts are largely 2 accounts and both have, by now, been on this very community documented as left masquerading apologists for the other (hostile) foreign camp. Somehow, all conversation on the fediverse, and Im sure everywhere else on the social media I dont consume, is dominated by, how much more can we take until we [REDACTED]?
I'm not here to shit on people lashing, nor am I even here to debate the morality of violent solutions to violent times. I'm here to say one thing and one thing only,
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FOUGHT WITH GUNS.
WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE!
Even here on the fediverse, threadiverse, or whatever fucking thing yall decide to call it next, where you think you are so far away an immune from it, the oligarchs are still programming your thoughts. Despite decent education having indirectly taught it for years that it is easier to mobilize MASS amounts of people nonviolently, and that teaching much more directly that the size of a strike needed to bring down a country is really not all that great, we're all here jerking off to violent self-righteous fantasies in which we, the super martyr, emerge either victorious through trials and blazes, or perish in the noble cause and are carried high above the shoulders of the screaming masses, cozied up in their most precious memories.
Fuck that.
Be real.
The rich even control all platforms of communication. Call your friends and stop working. That's what actually works.
Your demands should be: the immediate dissolution of this entire farce of an administration, and the immediate undoing of all laws enacted during their reign of terror.
Or fight against the surveillance state sponsored by Palanturd, complete with militarized drones.
Either way no rats.
A general strike would be the end game. To get there you have to do community organizing, set up mutual aid groups, unionize workforces, engage in union solidarity, etc etc. When you lay all that groundwork then you can start thinking about a general strike. Expecting normal, everyday people with kids, mortgages, sick family members, and no class consciousness to rise up spontaneously, risking their jobs and livelihood, is unrealistic to say the least. They need ways to feed their families, care for their children, and maintain their communities without the help of corporate/oligarchic systems, all set up in advance. And then you need to understand that a strike with a schedule is a lost cause as well; you have to be able to strike indefinitely for those in power to get the message. Otherwise they will just wait it out.
I agree, but OP is advocating pacifism, which is naive and idealistic. Nonviolence protects the oligarchy, because the oligarchy relies on violence to exist and perpetrates violence continuously.
Pacifism worked for gandhi lol
Gandhi was one individual.
Political change never comes from one individual.
I assume you are trying to argue based on an assumption that India gained independence without anyone perpetrating violence against colonial rule, which is completely inaccurate.
you make a lot of assumptions
Did pacifism work for the civil rights movement?
I was being charitable, because you failed to present a coherent argument.
Your "gotcha" questions are not as persuasive as you think. Rather, they reveal your own ignorance of the broader history.
You should educate yourself, instead of charging headfirst with such a cocksure attitude.
word salad
That wasn't a word salad. It's perfectly coherent, even if you don't want to acknowledge it.
its a reference to their comment