>>496586>realisticallyI'm going to preface my answer with some context that I think is helpful. One crucial problem is that the reality, and socialists desperately need to admit this, necessitates actions which don't necessarily seem
realistic. Many on the right admitted it a long time ago, but unfortunately people on the right, who see one aspect of this, struggle to grasp the full picture because many of them do not have an entirely materialist analysis of what's going on - tbf materialist understanding was rare in the 21st century American "left" too until very recently, which is how so many people were fooled by Obama, and why so many are still fooled by DNC sheepdogging and "lesser evilism." Nevertheless, there's a growing segment of American leftists who look at American politics, the mainstream electoral system, with an appropriate amount of cynicism, emphasizing the material/financial interests, party structures, class, system of bribes, etc. over
what people say. A seemingly infinite feed of disappointment, for me, has been watching MAGA people, a number of whom have a clearer understanding of the evil being done to Palestinians and the idiocy and greed of the US war machine than a lot of non-conservative liberals do, and many of whom even broke with Trump over this, still falling for demagogues, still not taking a clear-eyed stance when they see more posturing zionist-backed "nationalists" running around trying to do pogroms against brown people. They, unfortunately, are still in a cycle of falling for it, hearing words that appeal to them and thinking it's the real fix, hearing Tucker Carlson claim there are reasonable voices within the American executive branch, which has been virtually hand-picked in its entirety by military-corporate oligarchs, zionists, and landlords (the Venn diagram is a circle), and
really believing him because
he also says a lot of things that are true which other mainstream pundits would lie about.
And yet, still, one advantage that the American right
does have over the American left is their willingness to face one fundamental reality more readily, the reality that violence and preparation for violence is a necessary solution for any situation this dire; what's extremely unfortunate is that they often are prone to strike out like blind idiots attacking the nearest black church or gay bar or mosque or synagogue in the vicinity, doing not even the barest minimum damage to any target with a definite direct role in the state.
So the people of the US, who understand how bad it is, need to understand a few things before action:
1. It's going to keep getting worse, and only taking action can stop it. There is no excuse for not taking action, and electoralism is completely captured and controlled.
2. The enemy is the state, and the
real state is the banks, MIC, and the business/oligarchic and governmental powers behind zionist imperialism. Anything else, be it transhumanists, Muslims,
cis white males, Christians, gays, Jews, etc. is ultimately a scapegoat. It's worthless to take action against any broader group in which multiple classes of people exist; people must understand the size and scale of these groups, even the small ones are ultimately very large and diverse groups. It's also worthless to endlessly "debate" this with fools; anyone who can't be put on the right path when exposed to the truth at this point, who instead focuses on interpersonal bullshit and idpol idiocy, is either too stupid to be rehabilitated or is actively part of a psyop.
3. Anyone who understands points 1 & 2 will become a comrade by necessity whether or not they become an ideological communist. Even some who don't
fully understand it will be more helpful than fools who are still totally in denial. The
right is not the enemy of the left: the capitalist is the enemy of the left. The imperialist is the enemy of the left. Where there are class divisions between working class right-wingers and the actual state, the working class left-wingers need not intervene as unwitting combatants on behalf of the state. Instead, the working class left must focus on building militant, militarized power
to fight the state, and must direct its actions in such a way as to increase antagonism with
the state, and accomplish popular wins against
the state on terms which the state does not decide.
4. Today, the state builds its oppressive surveillance infrastructure at its own leisurely pace; it must be impeded. It is valuable that the human brains within the ruling class be stricken with fear and driven to make idiotic decisions. Public complacency is a carefully crafted status quo, but even the powers-that-be know that they cannot necessarily maintain it forever, which is why they are rapidly preparing for extraordinarily massive, brutal, bloody crackdowns. Knowing this, the best time for sabotage, and for war, is today, and the next best after today is tomorrow, and if total war cannot be waged against the state until preparations are made by workers (YOU) to do so, and if it takes a year, then the best time to do the war is a year from now, but the time to prepare for that is
right now. Anything else is worthless.
Knowing these 4 facts, what is realistic to do, given the dire circumstances, is the following:
1. Arm. Guns and bullets and armor first. Secondarily, all else above that in capacity to do damage.
2. Organize, and help arm and train others. Learn to shoot, it's really important. Movements are built from the ground up. Find others who are on the same page, and use your collective resources to arm and organize further.
3. Don't let
any assets you have slip away which might be useful. Not land, not the roof over your head. You need that. Don't let idiots fuck you over, don't let landlords and bankers rob you just because the state says you oughta. Everything you've got today in terms of shelter, storage space, clothes, medicine can be put to use tomorrow. Don't be wasteful, don't throw everything at charity if you've got anything to throw, take risks which serve the purpose of revolution with enthusiasm, but avoid risks which are unnecessary and stupid and will deprive the revolutionary cause of potential aid in the future. Things are going to keep rapidly getting worse, and the American left need to be prepared for it, and that starts right now.
4. Avoid arrest, but don't
fear arrest. You must understand that being in active opposition to the state is necessary and puts you in the state's crosshairs. This is a necessary consequence, and things will never get better without people who accept this. With that considered, avoid being tracked, and avoid being arrested. Take steps which are inconvenient but which increase the security of communications. Take actions which cause material damage to state surveillance, financial, and military infrastructure, but which have a reduced risk of being caught. Most things are not personally guarded 24/7.
Avoiding arrest is important.
Fearing arrest, and
fearing being in antagonism against the state, and avoiding action out of these fears, is futile and worthless and will not stop you from eventually being targeted anyway.
A fight with the state is necessarily unequal, but only a small fraction of the public would have to fight it in order to win anyway. The left is wrong to worry more about superficial popular opinion (which exists mainly on paper), than it does about enacting and realizing the popular will of the workers.
With the previous 4 facts and 4
things to do outlined, some additional, more difficult things which
would be helpful are these:
1. Reaching out to members of the military, especially relatives and friends. Any leverage we can get within the military against zionism and imperialism is good. Of the many who leave the military disillusioned, or are injured and have the same realizations, there are people with connections and training which can be of value. This is not the same as pretending the US military is
good or that being a member of it is something noble - but the soldiers can decide to
not fight. The soldiers can turn against the idiots who give them unlawful and immoral orders. The soldiers can decide not to attack their own people. The soldiers can join their own people in fighting the powers-that-be. These things are very helpful.
2. Build independent technological infrastructure and industry. Smallscale communications devices,
alternative internet tech and networks, etc. This stuff would be really, really helpful.
3. Get land.
4. Find ways to use existing resources to make more money, and use that directly to fund revolutionary activity without being caught.
5. Build parallel political structures - prepare a kind of alternate state which can be put in charge of the existing bureaucratic structures in the event of revolution. A President, Vice President, House and Senate, Judiciary, etc. In the circumstance that Americans' unity against zionism leads to revolution, this will be very useful.
Lastly, the general strikes and boycotts are also good and should intensify as much as possible. Encouraging that is good, discouraging it is bad. Still, way, way, way, way more is absolutely necessary.