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Yes.
How far did you read about the French Revolution before you closed the book? Because it certainly seems like you read the part about overthrowing the rich and then stopped reading about what happened next.
Let's be honest: nobody actually reads history. If they did they would know that the citizens of Paris eventually burned the guillotine because it had killed so many people.
Are you doing the work to make it happen or just waiting for one to come around?
Besides, voting until (lol) it happens would make a ton of sense.
What do you know about the leftist attitude towards revolution vs adventurism?
Please elaborate
How would one "do the work" for creating a revolution? Do you understand what revolutionary leftists actually advocate for?
I'm asking you what you are doing to create it, by asking like that it sounds like you're not doing anything
Why do you think anyone can "create" a revolution? That's my point, you don't know what revolutionary leftists actually want, so why are you asking such questions?
People have managed to do or attempt a few
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_revolution#Communist_revolutions_and_coups_throughout_history
Because I have a small hunch you aren't doing anything towards one
Have you read anything written by the people leading those movements, perhaps? Do you know what their revolutionary strategy was?
I wasn't thinking you were a leader, I asked you to name anything you've done to further that revolution. And you're being really evasive about it. It's silly.
Yes to both. Can you just answer my question now?
I'm asking you to consider the framing of your question. Revolutions do not happen because people organize them, or because individuals start bombing the state. That's adventurism, and more often than not results in turning people away from revolution unless already radicalized. They also do not happen by forcing conditions to get worse faster, that's accelerationism.
I am from the United States, a country that depends on Imperialism, or unequal exchange with the global south, to inflate worker living standards and deradicalize the proletariat. As such, the conditions for revolution do not exist yet.
As such, I fulfill the role of any good leftist in the meantime. I donate to strike funds with what I can, learn and teach theory, protest and boycott, and organize.
What would you have me do otherwise, that does not fall within the category of adventurism? You can't "make a revolution happen," revolutions are a consequence of declining material conditions.
It was as I figured.
In what manner?