unless you're gonna grab a gun yourself and start this so-called "revolution", your politics and activism are performative. shut the fuck up and vote, and then spend the next 4 years actually doing something to change the system rather than whining about it online. grow up
- As a communist, I’m entirely fine with the notion of engaging, myself, in revolutionary war for the sake of the people, there’s no hypocrisy there.
- Revolution is not something I just personally wish to happen, neither is it something communists as a whole are necessarily the driving force of - revolution is an inevitability, given the collapse of the existing system into economic, political, and environmental crisis. World war is on the horizon, and the consumate repression and deprivation of all peoples international and domestic that comes with it means that civil unrest, insurrection, and revolution are an inevitability. WW1 ended with the creation of the first socialist state, WW2 ended with the emergence of a global socialist bloc, and a third world war (which is as clearly on the horizon as the first world war was, as the imperialist states are forced by waning profits to aggress upon both competitors and their own allies for gains) will only end in either revolution in the imperial core, or the annihilation of humanity.
- Said war, crisis, and revolution are imminent, but not yet upon us. Revolution is not something initiated by communists in a time of peace (which is why all the ‘what about hospitals bwuh bwuh’ takes are moronic), it is a mass popular response to unimaginable poverty and violence, which communists take up a leading role in. The current task is to build up the networks and political organs to establish a mass base among the people, represent their genuine interests, and be ready to lead them in not just class struggle, but open class warfare. The electoral system of another class, of an enemy class is completely irrelevant to any sort of proletarian political action.
- I live in the People’s Republic of China.
