I keep pointing out that both factions of the RSDLP had like 9000 members in all of Russia in 1905.

The US left is organised enough between the DSA and the hardline groups to force significant action. Trump doesn’t quite yet have the latitude of action the Tsar had.

But that requires willingness to undergo significant risk to life and livelihood. Hard to tell people to do that.

And of course it’s hard to judge when trying to avoid provocation ends and it’s time to escalate. There’s no easy answers just…lines of Praxis you’ll have to try. This is uncharted ground.

I think you’re misunderstanding me. My point is descriptive, not prescriptive. It’s that the cycle of violence and radicalisation isn’t going to stop, whatever we do there’s no path back to stability.

Yeah, we all know that, most of them also know that, they aren’t stupid.

But it must suck to just sit down and let (Insert anti-socialist government opposed to the USA here) do what they want. Every time there’s a protest some young dumbasses must go “hey maybe this time it’ll not be a colour revolution and we’ll be in charge!” And the old comrades have to sit them down and talk them out of it

We criticise, but it’s not like we have huge ideas about effective Praxis beyond “Just be an Anti-Imperialist Popular Front! There’ll be time for the Working Class when the USA is dead”

Hopefully, the Communist dissidents will have the good sense to recognise it and keep their heads down for once.

Yeah, Everywhere revolutions just famously worked when a bunch of people marched for a couple of weeks. No one got shot or imprisoned for decades, no one was sent to siberia to starve. no massed crowds were fired upon on any famous steps.

Russia had a mass disorganised movement in the Narodniks. They all got shot, but the getting shot was needed for the revolution to happen.

Yes, it takes time but can be done. Supremacy Clause Immunity.

I’d also like to point out that a deliberate attempt by your nation to revoke passports or citizenship without cause is grounds for an asylum appeal under international law.

Giving Italy to the pope again and the Two Scicilies to Greece is a great bit

This was during Red Vienna so frankly I’m gonna let them

Was wondering if they’d do this or just seal until a more amenable admin. Trump will now use a pet judge to declare immunity

tastes like balls

I’d argue that conservative chuds should investigate what leviathan says you should do when the state revokes your right to life but let’s face it none of these fuckers read.

When I’m playing an early 90s 4x game

It’s the official start of the bleeding Kansas period, at least.

Ok well Minnesota can tell them to get the fuck out of their buildings.

Any state can passively withdraw support to federal organisations, and the federal government actually relies of state infrastructure to function.

That is a good point, if you want (insert newspaper club here) to be the opposition, talk as if they’re the official opposition , not the dems. That’s half the reason Mamdani won, the DSA acted as if they were the actual contenders, rather than running as “The Squad” or some other kind of dem+

The reward, also, is enormous.

A developed western socialist state would be an enormous force for good. It would embolden the left in China and other Socialist countries to live their priciples, it would weaken the global hegemony massively, It would provide, finally, an ideal model to develop a socialist economy as Marx intended.

Just one, and the dominos begin to fall.

This is, to varying extents, also true anywhere in the core vassal states.

At this rate we will have a double happening of decades by mid February.