A Munich court handed out prison sentences to all members of a banned Turkish communist group who stood trial. They lent financial and other support while knowing the group was plotting a coup in Turkey.
Yeah, that is true if you look at it from that side, it is understandable that they thought they could make it boil over.
Which brings to mind the question did Marx underestimate the power of reformism. You don’t see revolutions in developed countries. Lenin thought that the German workers would revolt and what happened was the 3rd Reich.
There was a revolution in Germany in 1919 and if the SPD wouldn't have been too butthurt and would've thrown in with Rosa, we could have had a Communist Germany. Just saying.
Imagine how different everything, literally everything, could've been.
I think that such a campaign would be pointless today because of the general level of comfort and the turn from capitalism towards capitalist realism. There is simply no alternative in the minds of most people. The first step would be forming that alternative. The second would be waiting. Without an external catastrophe that makes the general conditions bad enough, there won’t be any general motive in change. The USA now is a good example. There is a Floyd every week in the news. What made it possible for his death to spark a movement was the general level of discontentment and fear fuelled by the coronavirus itself, it’s economic consequences and the inability of the government (Trump specifically) to mediate and not escalate.
It is very hard to imagine, definitely. Capitalism is like the Catholicism of our time, it is gospel and everything arguing for system change is declared heresy.
I was contemplating this as well, like do we need another World War before we in the first world will overthrow capitalism, but now that I'm thinking of it,
isn't there a big crisis right around the corner and growing by the minute, like our climate?
I really hate it how libs have been able to control the narrative by arguing for reformism and all that shit, but I think they can keep a lid on the boiling pot forever.
But that might be it. Additionally, generally speaking the contradictions are only getting bigger, even in Europe.
Think about this little statistic: in Germany(population 80m) there are 3 million children growing up in poverty.
The problem is, I'm of the opinion that Lenins approach with some form of Vanguard is the correct approach to efficiently channel the energy of the emancipated masses.
I just don't know who that could even be, or how that could be organized today or how it commands any legitimacy and thereby power.
But can't become a doomer. We'll figure it out along the way. Hope is never lost. :cat-com:
Yeah, that is true if you look at it from that side, it is understandable that they thought they could make it boil over.
There was a revolution in Germany in 1919 and if the SPD wouldn't have been too butthurt and would've thrown in with Rosa, we could have had a Communist Germany. Just saying.
Imagine how different everything, literally everything, could've been.
It is very hard to imagine, definitely. Capitalism is like the Catholicism of our time, it is gospel and everything arguing for system change is declared heresy.
I was contemplating this as well, like do we need another World War before we in the first world will overthrow capitalism, but now that I'm thinking of it,
isn't there a big crisis right around the corner and growing by the minute, like our climate?
I really hate it how libs have been able to control the narrative by arguing for reformism and all that shit, but I think they can keep a lid on the boiling pot forever.
But that might be it. Additionally, generally speaking the contradictions are only getting bigger, even in Europe.
Think about this little statistic: in Germany(population 80m) there are 3 million children growing up in poverty.
The problem is, I'm of the opinion that Lenins approach with some form of Vanguard is the correct approach to efficiently channel the energy of the emancipated masses. I just don't know who that could even be, or how that could be organized today or how it commands any legitimacy and thereby power.
But can't become a doomer. We'll figure it out along the way. Hope is never lost. :cat-com: