In theory of course. And please refrain from telling me why a global revolution would not work.
We’d need to educate enough people world wide on effective tactics and preparation for a global general strike (info on how to do that here), and coordinate a single date for it to begin globally, which would essentially shut down the world economy.
With enough education on how to implement decentralized horizontal societies beforehand, we could effectively cast off capitalism without falling into the authoritarian pitfalls of the past, much like Catalonia was able to do in the 1930’s..
The end result of that would be the effective elimination of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and resource scarcity after implementing a gift-economy, not unlike it’s portrayed in The Dispossessed, as well as setting us up to stop the progression of climate change before it destroys humanity.
Good frog! Not only giving sources and stuff but also putting O.G. Ursula in the mix. I like you a lot.
Global coordination seems to be a big hurdle that needs to be tackled. Really wonder how wed go about that.
Every place that participates would need their critical industries to be unionized already with a non-corporate captured union. They would then need to get in contact with global union organizing groups, like the IWW or IWA-AIT, the first of which is a global union, and the latter is an organization that can help coordinate the radical unions willing to commit to a general strike.
However, it will be up to the people who form the grassroots unions in each country to push coordinating with those groups to develop a global plan, and it will take some time for that to build up enough to be viable. Though we are also rapidly running out of time to prevent domino effects from happening due to climate change, so we really need to get this happening double time.
Link goes nowhere.
Which link? They all seem to work on my end.
Just deleted due to fixed. It was the general strike one. Tried it several times just took me to no where.
Great book recommendation on that page. I can’t read online. Gonna have to order it in print but it feels counter productive.
Also work for me.
Nature says: IF you want the current regime ( in any ecology! ) displaced,
THEN displace it!
Don’t like Facebook’s monopoly? Displace it.
Don’t like political-parties’ railroading our world into ideological cuckery?
Displace it!
Etc.
For effectiveness, it’d require leaders, which the anarchists prohibit from their world, so they’re not going to help displace the organized-idiocy.
Communist & fascist imperialism will do EVERYTHING IT CAN to break any threat to their eventual-totalitarian-world-dominion.
Concentration-of-wealth-archy/oligarchy won’t tolerate any such thing, either.
& worst is the rude fact that as people’s contexts change, THEY change, so it has to be lead by people who’ve earned self-conquering, who aren’t malleable in principles or integrity, no matter how much force they are plied with, or how relentlessly they are plied with that force.
The people who felt class-elevated to be hobnobbing with Epstein kept their mouths shut when they shouldn’t have, simply because they’d be knocked lower down the social-status-hierarchy if they broke-ranks, & that social-pressure was sufficient to protect the entire Epstein-Class for decades.
That mechanism is in all of us.
It can be broken, through years of relentless pushing oneself into facing-karma, & breaking one’s unconscious-mind’s ignorance-dominion on one’s life.
Just identifying some of the key forces/factors that have to be dealt-with, in order for global-grass-roots-revolution to work, among the populations who are educated well/correctly enough to value critical-thinking.
In all the regions where education did what Leninism & Fox do, prevent that ( remember how the Republicans eradicated critical-thinking from all their territory after Trump won his 2nd term? ) … thos regions are no-longer recoverable, in WW3’s next 6-decades.
One has to accept that only a fraction of humankind will fight-off ideology-displacing-reason, & that saving the rest, thanks to education, isn’t possible.
Basic principle that Sunzi/Sun Tzu/Master Sun identified, 2.5 millenia ago: IF one is outnumbered, either defend, if one is strong, or evade, if one is weak.
Critical-reasoning is, globally, weak.
We either deal-with-that XOR we hand victory to the ideologues.
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Revolutions are context dependent. You can’t have a global revolution because it covers too many contexts. Global revolutions that do happen will be based on the contemporaneous development of local revolutions, that is to say a global revolution is a descriptive bottom up phenomenon, not a top down one.
You focus on your context. You figure out what that means. You do your part. Let other people do their part. You may find yourself as part of a global phenomenon, you may not.
Also, think about what a revolution is. It’s a replacement of a power structure. Globally, you could have a revolution against the UN, maybe. WTO? IMF? But you would have to get through your local power structure first.
So you focus on replacing the power structure in your context. Others focus on replacing the power structure in their context. And that’s how it goes.
How did the french revolution start?
Peasants starve. “Let them eat cake” - nobles in their own bubble. Government in high debt.
It will work the same again. Its all about logistics and bulk goods.
The shortest path to revolution is simply the truth. As all unjust forms of power is undermined by it.
While truth, not unlike reality, is something very personal.
But still, how about having basic needs covered worldwide.
Only post-modernists have the luxury of separating truth from reality. Worldwide that is quite rare.
To coordinate that many people, you would need either:
- a political party that would coordinate global actions via some sort of hierarchy
- a disaster of some kind that affected enough of the population that the entire world could be convinced to act all at once, or at least in quick succession, but still didn’t take out all of our communication structures so decentralized communication would still be possible.
We saw how Covid worked out so I think the likelihood of everyone not only acting at once, but also in unison, because of a disaster is quite small without a party to coordinate. There need to be constraints on behavior with levers of power to pull and enforce those constraints in order to get literally billions of people to do the same thing at the same time. I don’t see a way around it.
Leave us out of it, please. Canada
We can dance if we want to!
It would require several simultaneous grass roots movements globally rising up, or the complete collapse of the global economy.
Many organizations with loose leadership but all with common goals.
That way taking out a leader or even cluster of the movement won’t stop it but just fuel increased determination of the others.
At least that’s what I heard is one way that one side can win against enemies with more tech , weapons, and troops than they.
Also. Let’s not downplay guerilla tactics.
They have always been effective against a bigger enemy.
Trump’s on his way to obliterating the petrodollar …
So how would you get those going?
The global economical system with its built in assumption of infinite growth is on a collision course with the material realities of the world. So it will either change drastically, or collapse. The latter seems much more likely.
I think cracks will form and new, more local, decentralized and equitable frameworks will sprout from those cracks as people help each other, because the system can’t or wont help them.
Find a common goal that catches peoples interest and is widely agreeable/acceptable but goes against current politics.
Castrating people in the Epstein files?
Well, you could launch a war with Iran, for one. That’s looking like a good way to destroy the global economy.
That is an excellent question.
I am eager to hear your excellent answer. No thought about a better world is a wasted one, gimme gimme.
I am neither capable of creating international uprisings or the destruction of the machine of capitalism. I don’t know why you would expect me to know this.
But you are capable of thinking about it. That’s all we are doing here.
Why don’t you start by an example?
we’re doing it already, climate change
Lovely
https://youtu.be/XjBOSAk5BDk - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise? ✧ Brother ‘D’ w/ Collective Effort
What is to be done? Same as it ever was, build the party of the working class. For a global revolution to even be possible, the empire must sufficiently collapse. A year ago, I would’ve said it might’ve taken another few decades to really get going, but it seems we’ve left the decades where weeks happen and entered the weeks where decades happen. Let’s just say I’ll be really curious to see what happens when gas tops $10/gallon on average in the USA.
Wish I knew, I’ve given it more thought than I’d admit irl.
Hey we are just brainstorming here. Share your thoughts with us.
- Jury nullification. That’s a start. Dont vote guilty on certain crimes. You know what Im saying.
- Small acts of resistance. Just stop fully cooperating with the 1%. Spit in their soup.
- Large acts of resistance …
So many people need to get number 2. Decide your level of effort based on what you are doing. Helping an individual, go full out. Doing something for a corp, take your time.
You need the foundations of a revolution before you talk about a global revolution. What are the foundations of your revolution? What does it desire the end goals of your revolution is just as important as starting a revolution. What does the revolution accomplish? Also and this is the most important. In order for this to be global or tread it needs to be founded under problems that can unify the population under a banner. This would be the “hope” of the revolution. Capitalism is probably the best foundations for a revolution and our current society is probably at one of the best stages. It’s perfect because no society can function properly if it funnels everything to 1% of its population.
Edit: just remember that the current governments can never provide the population with what it needs because capitalism is designed to provide that to 1% of our population and its being democratically enforced. You will forever be the rich classes sheep.
Start by getting rid of your own debt, cutting down on purchases to the bare minimum, and saving up enough cash that losing work won’t affect you. Then start helping others do the same.
If no one is buying anything, there’s no government control.
