How To Start A Revolution 

Were we radically honest and radically love each other, even "capitalism" would start working wonders overnight and morph into anarchistic enlightenment. Tis the reason the gates of a golden age remain closed on us, we'd rather not let the masses _know_ . We dislike _social appropriation of knowledge_ via our power structures

@@jose.montojah the sad truth is, even if 99% of capitalists decided to not make profit their only motivation, that 1% that still does would outcompete them on the free market. A radical revolution of our economy is needed, products over profits, universal basic income to deter worker exploitation, socialize vital industries and ideally have worker owned cooperatives outnumber top down business models. One can only hope and dream

But what if we were to reform our society in a way that tackles social problems within our communities ? Wouldn't then we build a better future by entrusting the next generations to follow in our footsteps ? Not criticizing, just genuinely interested.

Lead by example. My plan is to spend the next 10 years helping my communities, moving throughout the US, and doing as much good as possible. So that when the time comes and the violent revolution inevitably happens, there will be thousands who have good words to prevent my name, even in death, from being slandered. The world will know the truth of the lies spread about me or anyone else in the revolution. Even if it fails, people will know which side stood for the good of the people and which side stands for themselves. I'm not the most heavily educated on the topic of revolution and started my path only at the beginning of this year, but I know that it's what I need to do. I'll do everything I can in my life to remove the stigmas from socialism and its branching ideologies. To do so, we need to improve our own images before the violence starts (likely not of our own volition.) Otherwise, there will be plenty of people capable of tarnishing our names and continuing a cycle of lies about systems that will change the lives of everyone for the better. Progress will be made, and in the end, our only goal should be ensuring that future generations don't have to undertake a heavy struggle for their own wellbeing. Our lives are meaningless if not spent building a world in which every single being would be happy to live in. Our world is a ticking time bomb, and I'm certain there are entities finding ways to prevent future revolution. We can not let ourselves forget that the future holds potential to create worse than we have ever seen, and our goals should be to prevent that no matter the cost to ourselves. I will never be happy until I know that my enjoyment does not come at the cost of someone else's suffering, so I refuse to die before I see some heavy progression toward that reality.

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Exactly! Same on a smaller scale with strikes. People put out a strike call on social media without thinking about how striking workers need strong actual support in order to be able to take the time and risk.

Would need experts in so many fields. Medical, food production and distribution Infrastructure, education and communications

Welcome to the fight

Lol there's no fight yet. If there is, someone @ me please

How in the hell can you call this unchecked capitalism?

​@@ogeo.8966there is no fight unless you choose to see it, its not a wave, its a tide, and if you see the small things all around you, you can notice as it starts to rise

@@lmcdms I guess most things do start small and there's a fairly long buildup and undercurrent.

Praxis, in this era? No way!

@@AndrewThoesen It's an amazing feeling. Doing things. Not merely sserting how things are, and how they are bad but acting to better them.

Nice!

lets gooo i love to see it

How is the collective going? I hope it's going well

The fact that history shows that people typically only do one or the other is why real revolution simply won't work. It would take generations to get people as a whole to take this level of personal responsibility with no cheaters.

Same. Started an eco-socialist, ahem, “sabotage” novel during NaNoWriMo that I couldn’t finish. I hope to return to it soon.

@@AndrewThoesenCool! I started a company town strike novel in a fantasy setting that I also stopped in NaNoWriMo, mostly because I wanted to finish my current project. Love the themes of it, but it needs a lot of work.

Were we radically honest and radically love each other, even "capitalism" would start working wonders overnight and morph into anarchistic enlightenment. Tis the reason the gates of a golden age remain closed on us, we'd rather not let the masses _know_ . We dislike _social appropriation of knowledge_ via our power structures

Keep at it, try to write everyday and even if it's just a few sentences -> Continuity is the key. But, and this is a big part, let the act of writing flow, don't cling to your exact plan of what you have laid out. Scenes and themes will evolve thereby which you hadn't thought off before. This is just what I have learned whilst writing.

As for me, another writer, I plan on writing a sci-fi novel that'll tackle oppressive power structures such as imperialism.

Bro that's incredible remember to keep educated.

How'd you do it? Mainly on finding your fellow anarchists. I wouldn't consider myself 100% anarchist but I like some of the ideas.

@@arlert4396 I just created a group on NextDoor....I decided to use one of those apps for something positive 😆 🤣

So its not an irl group ??

@@pierren___ it most definitely is irl, but the cops in our town heavily police anything and everything they consider "antifa" or "anarchist" so it scares a lot of people away so we also have our online space..

It's a religious thing. Marxist thought is very religious in nature

As someone new to this area of thought, I am still getting used to these ideas. One question I have is if someone were to hypothetically execute the more violent strategies, how could it be controlled without devolving into something meaningless? How could it stay consistent to our values?

@@Thepissheadman authors who deal with this question generally suppose that significant work has been put in to educating and organizing the masses so that uprising is the final step, not the first one. From my reading, I recall Anarchist Catalonia executed this strategy, though their inability to maintain their society against counter-revolutionary forces does perhaps raise questions about the viability of this strategy.

Hello fellow autustic human. I was in a very similar quandry for many years. I think the answer to your question is probably sonething you already know to some degree, just as i knew, and was too afraid or unconfident to take action on it. You already know that learning to socialize and organize with others, and build long term meaningful relationships is essential, but perceiving autism as a fundamentally unchangeable barrier blocks this. For me, the solution was in learning more about the truth behind autism. For example, studies have shown that while autistic people experience significant communication difficulties when placed in a group of neurotypical people, they display far less communication difficulties when amongst other nuerodivergent people. Studies have also shown that nuerotypical people placed in a group of nuerodivergent people fare similarly to autistics amongst nuerotypicals. The conclusion being... You are not inherently unable to communicate due to autism, you just have a different base thinking pattern and a deeply ingrained sense of inabillity thanks to being constantly placed in social situations where you cannot match up to nuerotypical communication expectations, and a lack of communication skills that would have developed if you'd had many years of learning these skills directly through participation with people who have similar mental processing and communication styles, as well as a severe lack of confidence derived from this deprivation of a supportive learning environment. It's scary and difficult to reach out, and start finding or forming those supportive learning environments. It's overwhelming to feel so behind in so many ways, but it's important to remember that there are hundreds or thousands of people all around you, struggling through many of the exact same issues. It is through reaching out, finding, and connecting with such people that you can both gain the confidence and support you've been denied, and provide the same opportunities for others like you. I once was so alone and terrified of others, that i would frequently emerge from my room and realize I'd forgotten how to use my voice. After five or more years of challenging myself to find allies who i can grow with, I'm a very different person, and i now feel confident talking to strangers, nuerodivergents, and nuerotypicals alike. The barriers and challenges inherent to my experience are still there, but I'm now confident enough, and strong enough to scale them when i need to. I gained these strengths through finding people with the patience to work with me from where I'm at, and by giving that same patience to them in turn. You are not alone, and you are not a lost cause. Goodluck in your journey. 💜

Building community includes building communities that are inclusive of neurodivergency. Many anarchist orgs know this and try to specifically be inclusive of neurodivergent people, with varying degrees of success, but often with a high degree of success. I've seen folks who struggle in other areas of life that require social interaction really come into their own in a group that's a mix of neurodivergent and neurotypical people doing revolutionary work. I think whenever you put yourself out there, try to be more social, more connected, it's like trying to learn any skill, you have to expect setbacks. In my experience, "expect setbacks" is the most important piece of advice nobody gives. If you already knew how to do these things, you would be doing them already. When you try doing something new, it's okay if it doesn't always go right - it's to be expected because making mistakes is a part of learning and growing and improving. If people in radical spaces seem to be responding poorly to your particular neurodivergence, well that's them making mistakes because they need to learn and grow, too. Maybe that's not the spot for you, or maybe it's not the spot for you yet. I'm kind of rambling, but what I'm saying is, remind yourself that others have grown up under capitalism, which has taught them to be selfish, and they will make mistakes and that's a part of their growth and that you will make mistakes and that's a part of your growth, and as long as nobody is making you feel unsafe, everyone can learn new ways to work things out and be better revolutionaries. Capitalism has failed neurodivergent people, so revolutionary spaces often have many neurodivergent people. Might help you make new friends, too. I don't know if this helps, I do know that I need to stop rambling. See if there's a Food Not Bombs local to you.

​@@forgetfulowlthank you for such kind and helpful words :(

It is the will of the universe that you are here right now, as you are, where you are, with what motivations you have. You must face the adversity in front of you to achieve what you seek. Rise above, my friend.

How has the progress been? Have you started working out and learning actual militaristic tactics? Have you bought or stolen equipment up to par with your enemies?

V for Vendetta had cringe, but as I was listening to ROTM in our kitchen with my kid, I finally understand that a revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. Revolution without love for others is just a regime change.

Maybe don't say that on an account with your name and face. But happy insubordination:D

@@quinnarrenzola5284 bold of u to think that’s my real name and face👀👀

@@livelaughlie The trickery! You will go far comrade

@@cat_city2009 "Stop" is a rather ambitious goal - when it comes to things to do or hope for from _here_ it's enough to be a plausible step in a right direction. When you've got one group offering another group what it needs for use to another group in exchange for what it needs for use, of similar bargaining power, with a solidaristic sense that everyone's need is everyone's concern, you've got something satisfying needs antithetically to the capitalist system in which people get whatever they can based on whatever they have, however necessary or not whatever they wish to have is or however arbitrary it is how much they have.

@@cat_city2009 Cringe all you feel you must. Big problems have solutions in parts. I'm not seeing the way the cringing is one of them.

@@cat_city2009 you can't achieve big results without starting small

@@cat_city2009 I: What do you _propose_ instead, then?

This is something I was trying to express to my comrades but they just glanced right over it :/

This sounds really cool! I'm gonna go check that book out, thanks for sharing :)

All of his other videos : checking both boxes, but adressing each box one at a time

You and Andrew should write theory collaborativelly.

Anarchist library.

@@thegrumpypanda1016 So they have written together there? Didn't know.

Hammer and Sickle?

I think one important thing is changing your communication with the working mass. Exclude the words "anarchism", "socialism" and "communism" from your vocabulary, hell, maybe even the word "revolution". Keywords that make people untrusting and scared because of many reasons are one of the main reasons these arguments occur. Of course, tackling capitalism's alienation and culture of untrustworthiness is hard, but even the populist arguments can be very helpful when coupled with actual change. As for your question, imo as a communist (non-ML), I think it's a matter of cultivating and changing whole aspects of a society's culture and worldview regarding work relations and politics. Workers are used to traditional pyramid organizations in business, and it would take time to adapt and perceive co-ops as the norm. Because of capitalism and overall shittyness from politicians, people have an anti-political stance and don't want to engage directly in politics (though lack of time/resources due to living condition play a major role), so a highly politicized society, where political duties are seen as everyday normalcy would be the way for a organized worker society to basically manage the role of the state in relation to the government (some would still call it proletariat dictatorship), with it being subservient to the people. As long as such culture gets passed through generations and continues on, so would this structure. But that's just my opinion, hope it helps!

*thanks marsspacedout-sensei for sharing your points and sentiments! Could moi just ask a question? - When you said "characters", are you talking about fictional characters in your stories or real-life peeps, or actually you're talking of both? I guess both could work! Let me just throw out some ideass moi had for stories: moi had this story-kernel of an idea wherein a nonbinary person and their partner were forced out of the city and have started to live in a mountainous region, also home to an indigenous community somewhere in the Philippines. They were saddled with debt, and so they had to escape. One of them used to be a student activist who lost their legs in an accident in an urban poor community while it was under threat of being demolished. They happen to meet their partner who was a Christian volunteering for a charity hospital. Both found connection somehow... and started living together and surviving, with them having bouts of depression while she getting incredibly stressed out from working wageslave work... so some reason (sorry, the story's getting long!) they moved to that upland region where an indigenous community is having trouble dealing with land developers, business folk, and the state, with the state aiming to build a dam, and the local folks are being forced to relocate. Division's imminent among the locals: a few wanting to just relocate and many wanting to stay. The couple then try to interact and talk with the local folks, maybe having dialogues first to discuss what everyone's feelings and thoughts were... then leading up to local actions like organizing themselves, finding ways to train and protect themselves, and contacting other organizations and folks to network... The first steps are the hardest, right? But maybe there is space in storytelling, letting peeps who have ideas about democratic, nonhierarchical, anarchist organizing share them with community who DO already have and understand those yearnings for democracy, compassion, and direct action? Sorry for the looong post!

If it's one thing I'm gonna do, it's hide an MF DOOM reference in videos

Exactly. That’s why it was a priority for me to create my own veggie garden and fruit orchard. 😊

I think you can use something like yt-dlp python script for extracting subtitles from youtube videos ....

Yeah "creative writing".