I'm a child of my society; I have doubts that revolution will succeed when so much of the dominant power structure is set up to make sure it fails.
The revolution, or metamorphosis as I prefer to call it, will succeed when the dominant power structure has grown so rotten that it can no longer continue to function.
A new structure must then be built upon the ruins of the old, spearheaded my a movement of, by, and for the working class, or "the 99%" as it is now fashionable to call it. This movement must be what Lenin would call a revolutionary vanguard, but it must learn from Lenin's mistakes and those of his colleagues. There must be neither a Stalin in our future nor another corrupt self-serving elite.
We are probably still decades away from that point, I think.
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Date: 2012-04-09 01:53 am (UTC)The revolution, or metamorphosis as I prefer to call it, will succeed when the dominant power structure has grown so rotten that it can no longer continue to function.
A new structure must then be built upon the ruins of the old, spearheaded my a movement of, by, and for the working class, or "the 99%" as it is now fashionable to call it. This movement must be what Lenin would call a revolutionary vanguard, but it must learn from Lenin's mistakes and those of his colleagues. There must be neither a Stalin in our future nor another corrupt self-serving elite.
We are probably still decades away from that point, I think.