One might argue it’s a requirement for being a communist.
Absolutely not, the people of the US mostly base their politics on which party they hate more. This isn’t a symptom of a system people want to retain, most feel the need for something new but aren’t organized and see no way out. Fixing both of those is our task.
Romanticizing revolution is an impulse I’d encourage you to quash, comrade. Revolution, while ultimately inevitable and necessary, is an ugly affair, and there’s no guarantee of it being successful or short-lived. The Russian Revolution of 1905 ended in failure, and the Chinese Civil War lasted for decades and cost millions of lives. Further, the revolution doesn’t end with the establishment of the DotP. It must be solidified and defended while simultaneously engaged in socialist construction. As communists, we need to understand this reality in order to inform our present orientation, to practically work towards developing the organizational capacity and class consciousness of the masses which will prepare us for the development of conditions favorable to revolution.
The more time we spend organizing, the better we plan, and the longer it takes for a revolution to occur in the U.S. this century, then the less functional, funded, and powerful the U.S. military which we have to overcome will be due to imperial decay.
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think.
~ Lu Xun
Obviously not. There are two national cadre oriented ML organizations, one a Party and one a pre-Party formation, each with thousands of cadre who are individually tasked with contributing hundreds of hours of our time each month to the organization of our class with the explicit understanding within our programs that a revolution will happen because the tendencies within capitalism are inherently unstable.
Do you want a revolution? If so, are you doing the work within your community to prepare for it?
It’s not going to happen tomorrow, or next year, or this decade. If you want to take this seriously you will have to understand that you must get to work and cease waxing about idealistic notions of “making revolution.” Go join a party and get to work with the knowledge that this is something you will have to make a part of yourself, and you will struggle for years and years and years across many spaces and places and with many people to move the country forward.
No, I suspect there are dozens like you, but I really do mean dozens unfortunately. There is a long way to go.
i yearn for revolutionary organizations, instead i get no kings liberals and the john birch society
In Canada, we have a solidarity movement with No Kings called “no tyrants”… because Canada still has a king. Liberals can’t get any more pathetic.
I think the best form of revolution right now is a personal one. Have revolutionary optimism that things can can better if you’re willing to fight for it. Everything after that naturally follows.
Im already willing, I just need other people just as willing
There are the many that people said in the comments but some are also Western Marxists who call for revolution immediately but only to a perfect idealised version of it. A non revolutionary party is useless for the strategy, but a party who is so revolutionary they refuse to do anything in the system also is not the way forward, just letting you know comrade
I want for it, but I have no faith it will happen.
I watched as one of my communist friend went full Buddhist, hides from his problems, and believes the only way to stop fighting is with peace, then got mad at me, to the point we are no longer friends, because I tried to bring up literal theory and historical writings from communists about how peaceful protesting by itself has never, and will never work without a threat of revolutionary violence.
It was at this point I basically lost faith in any real revolution happening in the US in my lifetime. I hope I’m wrong and I won’t stop trying to educate people but it’s depressing as fuck.
The idea that Buddhism is a pacifistic religion is some grand orientalist hogwash. In Myanmar, the Buddhists committed a literal genocide of the Rohingya. Avatar and its fictional air nation, written during the peak cringe Free Tibet era, have done DAMAGE to the common Western understanding of Asia.
All I know is he’s gonna on an on about reading Buddhist literature and acting like he’s some saint who feels no hate and blah blah. It’s all a bunch of hypocritical bullshit he uses to just stop caring about people, be a coward, and demonize anyone that says they support any form of violence.
It’s the case with most newfound faithful. People always use religion to excuse the evils they do onto the world, but all the good is always born out of their strength of character.
Buddhists are fierce fighters, throughout history. “Wu Tang clan ain’t nuthin to fuck with,” wasn’t born of a vacuum.
Sure, but this is true of every religion. Every religion has aspects which sound liberatory in order so that people actually listen to it, and other aspects that tell you to shut up and obey which are the ones actually promoted by those in power.
While Christianity was an integral part of Latin American liberation theology, different interpretations of it were also used to justify feudalism and settler colonialism. Buddhism was used to justify Tibetan serf slavery, by telling serfs to suffer quietly in this life so that they may be reborn a noble in the next one.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be presented to a blissed Buddhist friend for consideration. Doesn’t mean it will make a whit of difference, but it’s something to consider.
Not even close comrade
Not an American Comrade but a EU citizen comrade instead but I yearn for revolution for you all. Hoping we can follow.
If anything, it will be the other way around, I think.
I am also from the United States. (:
i’ve been yearning for revolution even before i became a communist tbh
Me too
No, but good luck with that…
