• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Please read theory, you’re speaking nonsense. No one is advocating for 3 random Communists to overthrow the state by themselves. There can be no revolutionary movement without the support of the masses.

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        4 months ago

        You can absolutely have a revolution without majority support, you just need support of the majority of the power.

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              4 months ago

              Depends. You’re very interested in avoiding reading books, so I don’t really care to play semantical games with you when you don’t know what we are talking about to begin with.

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                4 months ago

                You have suggestions for books? I’m not going to be able to read more than a couple of pages in the middle of this conversation, but maybe after we’re done?

                My point is I don’t think you should be advocating starting revolution till that opinion is close to a majority.

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                  4 months ago

                  The book I linked in the beginning, Reform or Revolution, goes over the futility of Reform and the necessity of Revolution.

                  My point is I don’t think you should be advocating starting revolution till that opinion is close to a majority.

                  Nobody is advocating for prematurely trying to force a revolution, that is Adventurism and is looked down upon by Communists. Instead, build up dual power along democratic lines, so that when the contradictions within Capitalism and Imperialism weaken the State, there exists a ready-made organization that can integrate with the working masses. Read The State and Revolution for the strategy for Revolution, specifically.

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                    4 months ago

                    It seemed like you were suggesting in your original comment that voting was futile and that we needed a revolution instead.