Presvias wrote:That's different to a 'revolution' though...he proposes, presumably, a marxist-leninist revolution.
Capitalism is forced on everyone whether they like it or not, and similarly, a revolution of that one ideology forces that system on everyone else instead.
What if people want to live under a different system?
Presvias, we are living in a specific time and place in history. The Nation-State has emerged as the administrative body of how to organize government. The idea of popular votes and democracy relies on the majority. The majority of the world's citizens are working people. Not wealthy elites and not completely broke underclass people. But mostly working class, lower middle class and middle class and upper middle class, those are the world's majority of peoples. Increasingly they are urban, city dwellers with very specific incomes and consumption patterns within a capitalist framework or economy. They should be dictating government action in a representative democracy. But they don't. Because the wealthy, oligarchic and corporate globalists have taken over.
Sure people want to live under a different system. Every time they try to do so the capitalist multinationals and globalist banker etc class comes in and uses their power to make the economies scream, kill or destroy the elected leaders and kill thousands of dissenters. They are murderers and killers and bloody savages the pro capitalists who don't want any other system to be tried or to succeed. They are incredibly resistant to any changes. It is crazy. They should realize that the more they pollute, repress and oppress the less chance they have of surviving the onslaught of their lack of control. You can't expand and consume and use and abuse the planet, lower classes, poorer nations, and be incredibly oppressive without severe consequences down the line. But it falls on deaf ears to these people on the Right who believe that the Left is disturbing the class system that is perfect and fine an dandy. The class system SUCKS. That they hold on to old and ancient shit that is proven to NOT FUNCTION shows the world how bad their thinking is. But no....They want bullets and violence to change. It is horrible.
I am a socialist that thinks that the government is supposed to SERVE the interests of the vast majority first and foremost. Not the elite in a nation or the corporate. Corporations are not supposed to dictate terms to government. That they do? Is part of the reason you have terrible politics right now.
I am far left. The socialism should lead to a classless society. Not that everyone is forced to do this or that. But that everyone agrees that human beings have rights and have obligations and responsibilities and so do governments. To serve and not be corrupt, and to be in the activity of helping people administer goods, services, plan to educate, keep healthy, and protect the vast majority of working people. People who can't work due to some physical or mental incapacity need to be supported as well and activities dealing with destruction, pollution, unreigned and unbridled greed need to be stopped and stamped out.
A well balanced society until human beings understand that they need to be as fair, balanced and inclusive as possible and to treat many people with respect, dignity and equality...as the only way to bring lasting peace, prosperity and balance to this world.
The other stuff that is about raping the planet and forcing poor nations to carry the load for the rich ones to party on without any regard to the suffering involved in those activities is suicidal.
That is my proposition Presvias.