What is to be done? Same as it ever was, build the party of the working class. For a global revolution to even be possible, the empire must sufficiently collapse. A year ago, I would’ve said it might’ve taken another few decades to really get going, but it seems we’ve left the decades where weeks happen and entered the weeks where decades happen. Let’s just say I’ll be really curious to see what happens when gas tops $10/gallon on average in the USA.

You need the foundations of a revolution before you talk about a global revolution. What are the foundations of your revolution? What does it desire the end goals of your revolution is just as important as starting a revolution. What does the revolution accomplish? Also and this is the most important. In order for this to be global or tread it needs to be founded under problems that can unify the population under a banner. This would be the “hope” of the revolution. Capitalism is probably the best foundations for a revolution and our current society is probably at one of the best stages. It’s perfect because no society can function properly if it funnels everything to 1% of its population.

Edit: just remember that the current governments can never provide the population with what it needs because capitalism is designed to provide that to 1% of our population and its being democratically enforced. You will forever be the rich classes sheep.

How did the french revolution start?

Peasants starve. “Let them eat cake” - nobles in their own bubble. Government in high debt.

It will work the same again. Its all about logistics and bulk goods.

1. Jury nullification. That’s a start. Dont vote guilty on certain crimes. You know what Im saying.
2. Small acts of resistance. Just stop fully cooperating with the 1%. Spit in their soup.
3. Large acts of resistance …

It would require several simultaneous grass roots movements globally rising up, or the complete collapse of the global economy.

Fortunately you won’t have to wait long. Either we get a revolution in the next 20 years or every non-1%er dies.

We’d need to educate enough people world wide on effective tactics and preparation for a global general strike (info on how to do that here), and coordinate a single date for it to begin globally, which would essentially shut down the world economy.

With enough education on how to implement decentralized horizontal societies beforehand, we could effectively cast off capitalism without falling into the authoritarian pitfalls of the past, much like Catalonia was able to do in the 1930’s..

The end result of that would be the effective elimination of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and resource scarcity after implementing a gift-economy, not unlike it’s portrayed in The Dispossessed. This would also mean all of us would only need to work about 2 to 3 months out of the year to maintain the base needs of everyone, with the rest of the year being free time to do with as you please. The lack of profit motive would also set us up to stop the progression of climate change before it destroys humanity and most other life on earth.

Start by getting rid of your own debt, cutting down on purchases to the bare minimum, and saving up enough cash that losing work won’t affect you. Then start helping others do the same.

If no one is buying anything, there’s no government control.

Revolutions are context dependent. You can’t have a global revolution because it covers too many contexts. Global revolutions that do happen will be based on the contemporaneous development of local revolutions, that is to say a global revolution is a descriptive bottom up phenomenon, not a top down one.

You focus on your context. You figure out what that means. You do your part. Let other people do their part. You may find yourself as part of a global phenomenon, you may not.

Also, think about what a revolution is. It’s a replacement of a power structure. Globally, you could have a revolution against the UN, maybe. WTO? IMF? But you would have to get through your local power structure first.

So you focus on replacing the power structure in your context. Others focus on replacing the power structure in their context. And that’s how it goes.

We can dance if we want to!

Violence. You want a revolution, you’re gonna have to kill some people.

To coordinate that many people, you would need either:

• a political party that would coordinate global actions via some sort of hierarchy
• a disaster of some kind that affected enough of the population that the entire world could be convinced to act all at once, or at least in quick succession, but still didn’t take out all of our communication structures so decentralized communication would still be possible.

We saw how Covid worked out so I think the likelihood of everyone not only acting at once, but also in unison, because of a disaster is quite small without a party to coordinate. There need to be constraints on behavior with levers of power to pull and enforce those constraints in order to get literally billions of people to do the same thing at the same time. I don’t see a way around it.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1849/01/01.htm

England seems to be the rock which breaks the revolutionary waves, the country where the new society is stifled before it is born. England dominates the world market. Any upheaval in economic relations in any country of the European continent, in the whole European continent without England, is a storm in a teacup. Industrial and commercial relations within each nation are governed by its intercourse with other nations, and depend on its relations with the world market. But the world market is dominated by England and England is dominated by the bourgeoisie.

Thus, the liberation of Europe, whether brought about by the struggle of the oppressed nationalities for their independence or by overthrowing feudal absolutism, depends on the successful uprising of the French working class. Every social upheaval in France, however, is bound to be thwarted by the English bourgeoisie, by Great Britain’s industrial and commercial domination of the world. Every partial social reform in France or on the European continent as a whole, if designed to be lasting, is merely a pious wish. Only a world war can break old England, as only this can provide the Chartists, the party of the organized English workers, with the conditions for a successful rising against their powerful oppressors. Only when the Chartists head the English government will the social revolution pass from the sphere of utopia to that of reality.

For england read “the imperial hegemon”, for france read “the link in the imperialist chain that breaks”

Revolutionary dictatorship gotta press the reactionary hegemon hard and fight a world war against them. Otherwise there will be no global revolution and no communism, just endless counterrevolutions forever

Start by finding a general consensus over where we should go, the rest will follow.

Start small: make your bed, brush your teeth, do your homework every day.