The recent uprisings from other countries have shown this. In Chile, last year's revolt has so far at best led to the scheduling of a constitutional referendum that won't be voted on until October, and that very likely won't lead to the end of Chilean neoliberalism given the oligarch-controlled political system that will facilitate the measure. In Ecuador, neoliberalism has also persisted, with President Lenin Moreno's austerity policies now aggravating the harm from COVID-19. Iraq, Algeria, France, and the other capitalist regimes that have lately experienced unrest also haven't undergone socialist revolutions.
This is the reality about spontaneous revolts that we need to recognize: just because a country experiences unrest, it doesn't mean the country's people will shortly overthrow their capitalist state and create a proletarian-run democracy. There are many steps that need to be taken before a country can experience something equivalent to the Russian revolution or the Chinese revolution.
The key to taking these steps is to correctly judge the material conditions within the country you're in, and to then carry out the appropriate kinds of revolutionary actions in response to these conditions. Right now in America, educating the masses about the need for anti-colonial and proletarian revolutions is our most important goal. This outbreak of unrest has made it so that building organizations like the ones I mentioned is similarly important. It's also increased the importance of arming the proletariat, which has been shown to be crucial for defending autonomous zones like the Seattle commune. If we do these things, we'll bring the conditions closer to a scenario where the capitalist settler state is overthrown.
More waves of unrest are inevitable. But what's not inevitable is a successful revolution. This will take much more work than joining in on the demonstrations of the coming months and years. We're going to have to put in the work that's gone into the revolutions in China, Cuba, and the other places where capitalism and imperialism no longer dictate how society functions.
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