I’m looking for specific suggestions of what I can do to find a group that I can join for the purpose of building a real revolution inside the USA. I’m trying and finding it very difficult. The closest was PSL but honestly my local branch seems kind of limp. That and I’m not academically inclined enough to get through Capital.

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    5 days ago

    The definition of a revolution is ending up right where you started. Realistically lobbying groups by individuals are the best current way to drive change

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        4 days ago

        The largest changes in human history such as electricity, medicine, lower crime, increased living standards etc all came from reform inside a system barring maybe the French revolution which was a blood bath that led to a dictatorship. Name 5 revolutions with positive outcomes

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          The Russian Revolution, Chinese Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Vietnamese Revolution, Laotian Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Bolivarian Revolution, etc. These all saw dramatic increases in life expectancy, literacy rates, housing rates, and democratization of society. The development of technology is intrinsically tied to politics, not outside of it.

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            9 hours ago

            All of these ended up with mass bloodshed and the death of millions. France recovered, arguably the other two are still suffering the consequences of these revolutions with autocratic governments and mass human rights abuses

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              No? This is nonsense Red Scare fearmongering, in socialist Cuba and Russia life expectancy skyrocketed, poverty rates plummeted, and society saw mass democratization in a unitary socialist system.