How to take power? In some eras, agitators would obtain a press and put out propaganda broadsides. Well, that's moot today, because there is so much information that all but the utterances of the very largest presses are lost in the wall of media noise that confronts us all 24/7/365.
Some would pick up the gun. I suppose it's always an option, and you never know, you may actually plan a hit on selected targets, have nothing go wrong in the execution (or, properly, executions) of the plan, and decapitate the entire war machine, or enough Hydra heads as to put society in an uproar, and make the foreign policies of this rogue government undoable.
But again, quantums of difference stand between armaments from the days of the 1848 French uprising, or the Paris Commune-- or even, than the anomalous Russian Revolution-- the Revolution should have started in Germany, not Russia-- and today.
One attack helicopter with two full minigun and rocket
loads (one to use, and say, "we want ABCDE and F, and if you don't pony up,
we'll send our dragon out again!" and the other to bloody well use as promised
if anyone doubts our resolve) would have changed the course of European history
any time before Word War Two.
Thus, rulers are quantums more powerful now in
comparison to the plain folks they exploited then, and the power of workers has declined, and is under attack in so many disparate geograhical areas that the attack may surely be called a full-court press. Marxian analysis may even be
correct, out of context. But it's so irrelevant that I can only think of it as
quaint.
Workers don't want to lose their chains, if by chains one means
the shackles that keep them at their dead-end jobs (those who still have good and
satisfying jobs will NEVER take part in a revolution unless the people they live
and work around are being Kaddaf-ized). That would mean unemployment, and you
know what they say, it's a recession if your friends are getting laid off; it's
a depression when YOU get laid off.
Whither revolution? I'm continuing to
go to Washington, and doing my best to get everybody else to rise up and be
heard.
If everyone stands up all at once, that's called a wave, and waves have
power.
However, although I have no coherent vision of how people can just
remove industry from capitalists of no good will and reform it by sheerly
financial means, I am not very sanguine that the working class of 2011-- and the
middle class is in regression to join them; they are not separate in Egypt or
Libya-- is coherent enough, or really does have common interests, or is
hard-bitten enough yet, to stand up and rebel.
Nonetheless, we'll do our
best.
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