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“The poors won’t revolt” is all copium.
“No one is going to revolt as we’re all sheep” is all doomerism.
People have a breaking point. Look at what is happening in Minnesota, Syria, the Arab Spring, Occupy Wallstreet, the Civil Rights, Idle No More, Palestine Resistance, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, etc. All these events happened because people hit their breaking point. Anger is powerful motivator.
People will have to decide is it worth dying the street for change or dying not doing anything.
And all resulted in no meaningful change or even worse circumstances.
I don't consider myself a doomer, but I can also read a history book and know full well that while this may be satisfying in the short term, in a few weeks or months everything will go back to the shitty normal.
Our only power now is local.
The US Civil Rights movement and the end of Apartheid in South Africa would seem to be pretty unambiguous examples in the above improving circumstances.
The world is shit. Nothing will can immediately achieve will make it not shit. But we can make it less shit, step by step. We have. And, huffing my hopium, we will continue to do so.
No true revolution happens because of some arbitrarily interpreted "breaking point". Those are merely flashpoints that burn bright and fizzle out just as fast or just leaves a vacuum of power for the most advantageous, opportunistic leech to cement themselves as the ruling authority.
It happens because of communities coming together to create alternatives in the here and now. Building a culture of solidarity and support so that people have the confidence to throw off the chains of the old system while also building the foundations of the new system we wish to replace the old one with. And that can only be done at the local level.
Otherwise, humans are more than capable of living on their knees and coming up with insane, fallacious justification for why their suffering is "necessary". It's written across all of human history.
"I don't consider myself a doomer"
Proceeds to say doomer shit and justify it.
True. Mubarak lasted for decades. The minute Egyptians couldn’t afford bread, he was out.