Revolution in Our Time
Lately, we've seen incredible progress towards a true fight against capitalism in the United States. Granted, it is not full on revolution, but, such things take time and such things take paradigm shifts to achieve. Luigi Mangioni's actions taken against an agent of state supported mass murder, several recent warehouse fires that were inspired by Jamal Abdulkarim, city residents fighting their corrupt leadership with tangible consequences to poisoning their community in Indiana. These are all indicators of a changing times. Not because in the past there were not examples of arson, or weren't examples of communities using violence against their political leaders, Rather, because of the broader response we've been seeing. Let's talk about it.
Mainstream media, naturally, is towing the party line of the accusing capitalists. They're reporting on the value destroyed in these aspects, or condemning any such response leftists take to extreme violence that exists against the working class by the capitalist elite. How dare we take action against data centers that literally poison our communities a la Flint or Lovecanal. How dare warehouse workers damage property and not any injury to life. So on and so forth. Violence is the privilege of the capitalists, and any such examples not explicitly supported by them is immediately condemned. In the past, this condemnation was often the only thing people saw. People didn't see the direct impacts, they didn't see the true narrative. They saw the story created and fabricated by the media, just as it is today. A disgruntled worker is an exception, and uniquely evil actor when action took place. Revolution didn't catch on because the comfort of the people was high enough that destabilizing forces, such as working class fighting back against decades-long abuses, we're rebuked by everyday working people.
However, things have become so egregiously bad, and social media has become so widely available, that such actions are being seen for what they are, messages. Messages being sent to the capitalists that their days are numbered. Applause is coming from the people across the US and across the globe supporting people in taking things into their own hands. Violence is being leveled against the capitalists in ways that hurt, and in ways that are measured. Burning down a warehouse carries infinitely less weight than intentionally bombing a girl's school, or intentionally allowing your staff to live so far below the cost of living that their lifespans are drastically reduced. Toilet paper is far less important than a homeless person who dies on the street because the government has decided their life isn't worth preserving. This is simply the truth. Yet, burning down a warehouse directly hurts the capitalist class. It sends a message, and people are on board.
Escalation of revolution is an exponential one. You see slow movements at first, a conversation starting, many still defending the status quo, both-sides arguments in even the most leftist spaces. We are witnessing this exponential escalation. As it becomes more and more clear that we need to combat the capitalist elites as they actively destroy our world, which is the greatest form of violence there is, more and more people are doing so. We've seen the failure of No Kings, and it's performative exploitation of the actual leftist cause. That's most important to note. We are seeing it. We are seeing that things are getting worse, with no scapegoats except the capitalists, at an accelerated rate, and we're seeing protest and words do nothing. The propaganda the US taught its people is finally losing its shine. People see CEO's terrified after Luigi, people see warehouses going up in flames and finally eliciting a response about living wages, people see sabotage working. Theatrical behaviors of the centrists is no longer seen as the path to liberation.
The revolution is just starting, and we have hope that this exponential increase will continue into a full blown worker takeover of the ruling systems. We saw such actions succeed in South Africa under Nelson Mandela, we saw it work in Revolutionary America, we saw it work in Russia, and we've seen it work elsewhere.
In Solidarity,
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