While I agree with you about the likelihood of collapse, my friend's suggestions are still good.
Revolution in America
Even if the collapse is far off, our efforts are better spent solving problems in the present with methods that build our political power (remember, it was the radicals who provided the pressures needed for the social gains of the 20th century).
Collapse, however, is almost certainly not far off. The bourgeoisie are working hard at automation in part because of this. If they manage to automate enough labor before the final crisis then this scenario is plausible (if hyperbolic):
This would require an economic transition to something like FALC (but only for the 1%), but for the time being, capital is very much dependent on labor. In an ironic twist, the drive to automate is also driving the rate of profit down, which means that capitalists being aware of the contradictions may actually make the system fail faster.
Revolution occurs when the people who are responsible for preventing revolution (the military) no longer benefit from doing so. When the next crash happens and everything goes to shit and it becomes aware that the current system can’t do anything, only than can revolution occur.
all revolutions are coups
this is utopianism
Porky can’t genocide all the prols because prols make up the military.
hmmmm
You don't have to actively kill anybody, just leave them to their own devices. Why do you think people want to go to Mars?
yes? I have no idea why you Sassenachs in here and Zig Forums think exterminism + FALC for the 1% is somehow more unlikely than worldwide proletarian revolution
You're better waiting for technology to kill off capitalism than organising a labour based militia to overthrow the US government.
The biggest obstacle to any revolution is the army, even as recent as the Maoist (soc dem) Nepalese revolution a few years ago was permitted by the army.
Leftists can't even infiltrate the military without outing themselves like that "communism will win" guy who got canned. Also so as long as the military is voluntary, it will always be comprised of liberal ideologues and those grateful the military gave them a career instead of poverty.
The army will have to become a conscription based one forcing political pluralism in the army, alongside this the labour movement has to stir up class consciousness amongst the working class and agitate the populous into insurrection against the system ie labour riots precipitating into martial law followed by a socialist mutiny.
Organising honeypot socialist militias are an ancillary at best measure towards the revolution.
I think you want this flag^^^
that isn’t what I said. What I said was localized action that ignores wider society is utopian.
All the blueprints would be left here though.
This doesn't even require that capitalism itself be collapsing already. Simply by creating an alternative system parallel to capitalism, you render capitalism increasingly irrelevant and weak as economic activity shift from one to the other.
It's a classic 3rd choice to the false dichotomy (though it can be used alongside either or both) of "revolution vs. reform".
ty my hibernian friend