Praxis in the 21st Century

So….Extreme Opportunism until the time is right.

If you're going to keep leftist thought stuck in the 19th century, your "right conditions" for revolution will never materialize.

It won't be that much longer. The effects of climate change are already being felt in the third world and in the next 20-30 years the whole world will be in a state of crisis

Yeah, just like the ice caps will be gone by 2014, eh Al?

How about "post-capitalism"? You shed all the connotations of soviet and sucdem socialism, assert a demand for radical transformation, and retain the ability to concretely re-envision society.

Without a civil war or large-scale military conflict between the capitalist powers it will not be possible for a proletarian revolution to succeed anywhere. Even if the Venezuelans had attempted a genuine proletarian revolution and used the most advanced theory and techniques they would have remained isolated in the face of capitalist encirclement. This same isolation will happen to every state that attempts to break free from the domination of global capital. The idea that some kind of peasant revolution in a backwards region could take power and successfully resist global capital alone is an absurdity. It only worked for the Bolsheviks due to the unique conditions of WWI. It worked in China due to the collapse of Japanese imperialism and Soviet support.

And even if a large war occurs between capitalist powers it is likely the gap between them and the developed world would still remain large enough to prevent the full development of socialism. Which means, to me, that it would be far better if Marxist organizations focused on the First World countries

But a serious crisis within the large capitalist does not necessarily entail socialism, only the possibility of a revolution that could establish socialism.

OP, I have to somewhat disagree with you, building up socialism does need capitalism to fail or at least recede, but causing instability is not the answer, if it was, ISIS would have converted France to Islam by now, what is the answer is an united front, building class conciousness, and as an anarchist it makes me feel weird to say this, but, COMBAT LIBERALISM, also, I love how points 1 and 4 are literally contradictory

Actually you ain't wrong, Africa, SEA Asia and South America have had and still have, plenty of revolutionary potential, it's just that those revolutions were corrupted by being pawns to the USSR and by the state capitalist model of the USSR(which the USSR by the 80s undeniably followed, like I wanna hear no "Gorbaciov was socialist you revisionist") , or to Imperialism, or in most of the cases, as with Algeria, Namibia, Angola and Peru, to revisionism
I also think that places which treat their workers badly and that have revolutionary potential if class conciousness is built like South Korea would also be a good place to start

What can be done to take advantage of future crises of capitalism?

1. Theory
We need to work on theory. The material conditions of capitalism have created the modern class system. But for one class - the workers - to overcome this system it will require deliberate effort. And before this undertaking can be put into motion it is necessary to become conscious of the conditions that will determine success or failure.

2. Political program
Theory results in the basis for a program which plans out real world practice, organization, and the ultimate goal of the class struggle. Without this program there is no point in organizing anything or even taking action at all. The capitalists are constantly planning on how to undermine workers movements, rogue political parties, and any threat to the status quo.

3. Worker organization
Once the program is established on a firm theoretical basis it's possible to put the plan into action and organize. The form of organization will almost definitely change over time depending on conditions. Getting caught in the trap of organization for its own sake will lead to the creation of bureaucratic deformations within the workers movement in which immediate material interests override the program and the theory. This happened repeatedly in the 20th century.

In summary I'm going to paraphrase what Bordiga wrote:

The problem isn't idpol, sectarianism, or inflexibility. These are symptoms of the real problem which is theoretical confusion and lack of a solid political program. The modern left, even the Marxist left, suffers from all kinds of disagreements of a theoretical nature leading to disagreements about what kind of political program to adopt. We don't know what to expect, what will succeed or fail, or what really happened in 20th century socialist experiments.

Theory is praxis. Right now our praxis must be theoretical struggle.