The World Will Soon Explode Into Revolutions!!!!

[Rakhmetov]

"An understanding of twentieth century U.S. foreign policy requires learning one central theme: just as Americans began to claim Great Britain's title as the globe's greatest power, and at the same time, to demand a more orderly world, the globe burst into revolution. The American claim was to be realized, but the demand was never met nor the revolutions ended."

Walter LaFeber, The American Age

I remember I started a thread some time ago that ran "I feel Something Huge is Going to Happen."

http://www.revleft.com/vb/feel-something-huge-t145419/index.html?t=145419&highlight=feel+huge+happen



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41246699/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[Fulanito de Tal]

I think there's going to be a nasty conflict between the US and other countries before the situation for workers gets better.

[Savage]

The world very nearly 'exploded' into revolution(s) in the late 1910's, lets hope for a 100 year anniversary revolution.

[dasredtelephone]

I think it's got to get really bad here for a revolution to break out. But if we do engage in more pointless wars an uprising in our very own streets is entirely possible in my opinion. I hope it happens. I really do.

[ZeroNowhere]

I love the title of this thread.

It does seem somewhat lacking in content, though.

[Rakhmetov]

I thought I should resurrect this post in order to "validate" some of my "predictions." The predictions are of course of a general, ambiguous nature and nonspecific but nevertheless exciting and fun. :thumbup1:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

What I'm scared of is if things start to hit the fan around 2011-2012 people are really going to think the world is coming to an end with all that 2012 hysteria. I say this only because my fundamentalist sister tries talking about that bullshit to me all the time and I can feel it coming with all that's going on in the Arab world now.

[ckaihatsu]

What I'm scared of is if things start to hit the fan around 2011-2012 people are really going to think the world is coming to an end with all that 2012 hysteria. I say this only because my fundamentalist sister tries talking about that bullshit to me all the time and I can feel it coming with all that's going on in the Arab world now.


Yeah, for someone in that mindset, with that attitude, with the rising of the Arab world, they'd be right...!


x D

[NecroCommie]

I'd like to see myself as an optimist realist on this matter. The best solutions are born when you hope for the best but expect the worst. The fight is not over until the fat lady sings as they say. :cool:

[Jimmie Higgins]

Well the last time there was a capitalist crisis like this there were revolutions in Iran, conflicts in Chile and various other places. The economic crisis is shaking the foundations of every country and right now, some of the weak links have already started to strain and snap in a couple of places.

The capitalists restored their order with neoliberalism enforced by dictators and non-negotiable Structural adjustment programs. Now that model has run into the ground and the ruling classes have no other alternatives but increased austerity. They will also have to become much more cut-throat with competing imperialist powers. So yeah, a very explosive time right now.

The wild card is what the populations do. The ruling classes have no answers but austerity, but unfortunately there is no organized working class or populist even alternative. In some cases people will just revolt like in Egypt, in some places they will try and stall the planned austerity like in the student movements or in the Greek movement, but without an alternative, these movements will likely be confused and easily derailed or split. But even when we loose, hopefully people will learn from that - if the Egyptian movement runs into a roadblock because the liberal part of the opposition gets bought-off or betrays other sections of the movement, then it will cause people in other countries to think about how they are organizing. If the military turns on the movement once the protests settle down, then people will learn an important lesson and it will correct some of the impressions people had about the military after Tunisia.

Basically we are at the beginning stages of a really unstable time-period, but possibly also at the early stages of rebuilding an international radical movement that has to deal with questions of the system and state power and how to fight-back offensively.

[NecroCommie]

Well, I have to agree that the potential growth of the political left is increasingly bright. Yet bright future does not mean bright present, more activity is needed, more agitation is needed and especially in the media and the mainstream culture we are outrageously overpowered. As the saying goes with the finnish communists:
"Comrade! What are you waiting for? There is still a lot to do!"