Let's Tax Offshore Wealth

[socialist_n_TN]

29. Revolutions ARE difficult and, for most people, a last resort......

I'm old now and I doubt if I will see it, but the possibility is there and SOMETHING is coming. Whether it's a socialist revolution or a fascist takeover or (even more probable in the medium term IMO) a Bonapartist dictatorship, something is coming.

Trotsky said that two of the conditions that have to be extant for a revolution is that the ruling class cannot keep control in the old way and that the working class cannot go on in the old way. The first condition is coming true more rapidly than the second, but both are happening before our eyes. We're seeing the rise in fascistic methods of control from the capitalists and their toadies in the political class because the old ways of control don't work as well anymore. The working class has to catch up with their part of it and that's what I meant in my previous post about the working class becoming a class FOR itself. That's all about raising consciousness of the inherent power that resides in the class that toils for somebody else's profits.

I think that even most (not all, but most) hardened revolutionaries would prefer evolution to revolution because of the very things that you mentioned. Unfortunately, we are revolutionary because reform hasn't worked and has never worked and we don't believe anymore that it CAN work. As I said in the previous post, capitalism ALWAYS breaks it's regulatory chains, sooner or later. This is why you see this type of behavior from the capitalist class throughout history. And it always leads to a reaction because people don't want the unregulated version of capitalism. So it's time to smash the system and try something new. Hopefully, we've got a few "bad" examples to avoid from the past, so it's up to us to make it work. This time. That's another reason I'm a Trotskyist. His is the Marxist road not taken.

One last point. There aren't any "...neat, simple theories of what comes next". If there were there wouldn't be any need for organizing, propagandizing, agitation and analyses of current situations and trends. If a worker's state was an inevitability then we could all just sit around and wait for it. There are other options that are worse for the working class, but are possibilities in a revolutionary situation. Our work is to MAKE the socialist revolution the only viable option out of the options arising from the revolutionary situation.

BTW, thanks for allowing me to explain.